(07-24-2013, 04:58 PM)Agmen of Eladesor Wrote: Let's clarify something else here, too, that both Hone and Tel-Aviv have wrong.
The Nomads / K'Hara have a working tractor beam - it's just not the same as a human one.
The one you ***hard-skins : soft-minds*** have will work while you're flying around, and tractor stuff in from a long distance away while you're moving fast.
The one we have works at ranges of less than 300 meters, and you pretty much have to be sitting still relative to the target.
Thus, my Irra sitting somewhere in New York has two choices to refill - move to our 'secret' base (Tau 117) a few systems away, which is doable or just sit along a trade lane and shoot lots of NPC's. The advantage to shooting NPC's is that it ALSO allows me to tractor in assorted pilots / VIP's that I can trade for additional bots/bats when a player shows up.
I know nomads have that tiny tractor beam, thats why I said they have an unusable one, rather than "they dont have one".
It's not usable in open combat to bring in lots of loot - after all, since the K'Hara effectively have open season terrorist ID's, think about how much fun one of those would be. It's quite usable, though, to farm NPC's and their supplies of bots and bats. Is it a pain at times to do so? Sure - but hey, we're blue and we were here before you humans anyway...
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
