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Change Tractor Beam I to an all ship skill..

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With the enterence of the NX enterprise and it's Grappler, it makes me wonder why all ships don't just automatically have Tractor Beam I. (I've kinda always wondered this)

Sure it would pull a skill out of the Science tree at Tier I, but I don't ever recally that many ships that didn't have a tractor beam standard on their ship.

Or in the Orion Marader case, give it an improved Grappler instead of the Tractor beam. Maybe the same could be done for the Gorn science ship as well?

Just an Idea.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    With the enterence of the NX enterprise and it's Grappler, it makes me wonder why all ships don't just automatically have Tractor Beam I. (I've kinda always wondered this)

    Sure it would pull a skill out of the Science tree at Tier I, but I don't ever recally that many ships that didn't have a tractor beam standard on their ship.

    Or in the Orion Marader case, give it an improved Grappler instead of the Tractor beam. Maybe the same could be done for the Gorn science ship as well?

    Just an Idea.

    I like the tractor 1 to all ships. Makes a lot of sense. rather then I don't have a boff so all of a sudden I can't tow a ship in distress...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I like the idea of a universal tractor beam. It's not like there's a shortage of science skills for BOffs.


    Though I kind of feel like the grappler at the moment doesn't quite feel right.
    I have the NX enterprise, and I've grappled a few ships. I can still run rings around them even with a cable tying both ships together.

    I really think grapplers should debuff both ships, source and target. It'll just make them require a bit more thinking before you use them.



    Edit: I don't mind the implementation of this idea being either a Tractor Beam skill for Tact/Eng BOffs, or as an innate ship skill. If balancing becomes an issue.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    all ships do have a standard towing beam, what the sci officer skill does is turn it into a weapon in combat.
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