[Grey Wolf]

Just give a beam a mass of ~ -100000 and pull around a Sath!

[Joey_21]

Tractor beams... does this mean that negative mass values on weapons in FS2 actually make the ships travel towards you?

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[Grey Wolf]

Yes, but it takes massive mass values to move any capship. And a beam w/ -1000 mass hitting a fighter can really mess up your position.

[Joey_21]

 

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
And a beam w/ -1000 mass hitting a fighter can really mess up your position.

Ouch!

[Grey Wolf]

Luckily, my Ulysses had an "invulnerable" tag so I only go slammed into the Collosus' turret at ~500 m/s. Interestingly enough, I bounced off...

[Daedalus]

Yeah, that's the one problem with a tractor beam, is you have to find a way to keep the fighters out of it, or they might start killing themselves on the TugShip™.  

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[Setekh]

Whoa, very cool! Didn't know it worked!  

[Nico]

OK, I think you're ready to try that:
give a missile with a negative speed shockwave   (who is talking about black hole bomb?   )

[phreak]

The real kicker is to have a mjolnir with a kamakazie flag and tractor beam.

[Taristin]

The real cool thing is the repair beam that fozzy made. It actually repairs subsystems, and can be made to repair the hull too.  

just put the - with the other stats.  

[Taristin]

 

Originally posted by PhReAk:
The real kicker is to have a mjolnir with a kamakazie flag and tractor beam.

 

[Sushi]

Actually, if you want a beam to CAPTURE ships, here's what you do-

Have one beam with a range of say, 2000, that pulls the ship in. Have a second beam with a range of 500 that does no damage but pushes out with equal force or maybe a little more...Get them both to fire on a ship, and there you go- the ship will get dragged in, then held in place by the two counteracting beams.  



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[Sandwich]

Hmmm... speaking of messing around with the mass... how about a bomb defense beam. Type 3, with 10 shots or so, and a high fire rate. No damage, but fairly high mass. Would it knock those bombs back into the bombers noses?  

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[Stryke 9]

Be a cool antiflail gun, too. Put it on a tough-***  bomber and you have the "headbutt gun". I gotta try that- I do most of my damage by ramming into stuff anyway.

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[Alikchi]

Sweet.

[The Avenger]

there seem to be many possiblilities i shall give them some conciedration in my campaign....how about tractorbeaming into subspace?

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[Sandwich]

Ok, where in the TBL data do I make a number negative in order for it to repair a ship?

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[YodaSean]

The damage level of the weapon.  I have to try some of these out.  Sounds much more interesting than my subspace nebulas!

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[Maximus]

Am i missing somethin here? I edited the BFGreen beam and gave it a mass of -10000. I put the beam on a mjolnir and had it fire at a Fenris. Nothing happened! Then i upped the negative mass to -900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Still nothing! Is there something else you have to edit?

[phreak]

i think so since mine wont work either.