every ship should have a tractor beam
now I suggested one for chomper, it acts as a cargo drone in close proximity to battlecruiser (without the bloweyuppy aspect from opposing team) but requires close range =p (playful suggestion)
the make field, if it hit's a drone, possibly both teams or just enemy, should vaccum drone up, allowing you to itercept minerals with chomper
miner, It's tractorbeam already exists, it is a fine tuned tractor specilising in sucking minerals in a controlled rate from roids and as a weapon no change needed...
(playful suggestion)
perhaps it could have a slight pulling effect untill certain range, making a close pack of miners more dangerous if the focus fire (but the pulling effect which should deal increased damage/mine faster should only work with ... i duno minimal 2 miners?
wraith, well almost any tractor would be just wrong if wraith could ever pull anything, so better idea: wraith could be upgraded with anti tractor beam, (no doesn't disable other) this anti tractorbeam could allow wraith to latch onto enemy unit, it does not move that unit, but moves wraith (ok this may be difficult so maybe just screw it) this beam would be to synchronise wraith with a unit (miner boost disables it) so pressing a and d rotates you around the unit... a and d rotate you in relation to the unit, clockwise and counterclockwise, not left and right anymore, so you could aim at enemy unit latched to or, latch to friendly and be an orbital turret
(wow wraith idea lota words)
minelayer, It's tractor, well tractor ability could be used to suck in enemy mines - disarm them - and load into it's own mine slots (beacons too)
(playful suggestion) a tethering ability similar to wraith that does not impeded target locked onto, allowing wraith to keep behind another unit while healing it... (I would love this so my bc couldn't run away from me, D= take me with you!!!)
corvette..... reverse tractor? literally reverse, a repulsor, possibly an AOE that.. well, moves SS away from corv, or for chomps/dessys/bc, shoves your corv away from them... an anti collision device to go hand in hand with the shield :p (i don't take this one seriously, it just seems stupidly complicated with no effect other than possibly avoiding death by chomper)
Dessy... ok really... no idea at all... i believe dessy just good enough, nothing I can think of (bc sync to stay wth bc no matter speed) seems a lil way too OP to give dessy, and using a ballista asteroid cannon seems senseless... unless could use as a stealth weapon... example of how to work this? watch district 9 (no don;t watch it, but if seen good, I do not encourage looking at a movie that which content could get me in trouble) legal stuff out of way, the mecha in the movie, has.... a gravity well/slingshot... a vacuum cannon (it pulls something into a localized area, then launches out forward with great force)
that could be a justifiable dessy weapon (effects differ based on roid... possibly a roid effected by this would dissolve after set distance, should fly faster than q bombs, yellow hull? blue shields? red decent damage overall? green energy? roids should explode on contact, or loose their no friction status on contact plus a decent amount of life-minerals
Miners -starts with
Chompers - starts with (bc upgrade will increase range)
Minelayers & Wraiths... Shared upgrade for "tractor relativity/orbital sync" (or something)
Corvette..... Dont Ask Me... it's tractor is photon condensers, launch its bullets harder :p
Dessy - Dessy specific upgrade
There, minerlayer wraith and dessy upgrades gives tractor, all rest basically have a form already :p
(if i can, i'll clean this up later @_@)
