[SCR] Super Tractor (v1.07 - 24.12.08)

[Gazz]

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A Tractor Beam replacement where the cargo does not move like the tail of a rabid mad cow.

• Required equipment:
  Tractor Beam (who would have guessed?)
  
  
• The target is always the current target of your ship.
  You can however order another ship to tow this target.
  
  
• Every object you can target from your ship can be towed.
  Catch an UFO, create a zoo of space flies...
  Don't like the position of the Goner Temple? Change it...
  
  
• A Jumpdrive can be used when towing ships or asteroids. Yes, the cargo will jump with your ship.
  
  Every sector costs Energy Cells, even if you used a jump gate. (not recommended with a 4km asteroid in tow)
  If your tow ship does not have enough EC a log book message will tell you how much it would have needed.
  
  The smaller your tug is compared to the cargo, the higher the cost in EC.
  
  
• Any ship with laser or turret capability and a tractor beam on board qualifies.
  I never saw the reasoning behind only letting military ships tow stuff.
  Your car breaks down. Do you call a tow truck or a battle tank?
  
  
• Firing any laser disengages the Tractor Beam.
  
  
• Executing the menu command again disengages the Tractor Beam.
  
  
• If the tow ship is in the same sector as the towee it will fly to this target and leash it. That is all the navigation this script will do.
  
  
• After the cargo is on the hook you may issue any nav command you want.
  
  
• The alignment of the cargo is exactly the same as the tow ship. You can move and rotate a station as accurately as you can move or rotate a ship.
  
  
• The freight is towed with 1km distance to the ship.
  
  
• The tow ship is completely safe from the cargo. The rest of the sector is not.

Scripts for the complex builder: ComplexCleaner, Super Tractor, Factory Complex Constructor

To tow something:
Target the object from your ship.
Order your own or another ship to tow. (Special Menu)


Download: ZIP


Resources used:
COMMAND_TYPE_SPECIAL_34
T-File / PageID 7033
Task IDs (ships) 7033

[Gazz]

** reserved **

[xiriod]

Great, I thought about this yesterday and hoped for a TC version soon. Thanks!

[Gazz]

Well, then merry christmas. =P

[Kadatherion]

[Gazz]

Hehe.
My first action was to tow the IBL/PBG forges off the main traffic lanes where the military recons would be unlikely to find em. =)

[amurph0]

So....... what happen when the tow ships docks somewhere?? Does the towee disconnect, or does something magical happen.

[Gazz]

If the towing ship docks, the towee is boarded by pink gremlins who then proceed to paint a big red bullseye on the hull.
When they are done a pentagram shaped pattern of xenon lasertowers spawns and reduces the towee to rubble.
Then a soft and wet pattern of squash mines spawns and destroys the rubble.
When all this has been completed, a construction crew of green gremlins builds a ship that is identical to the previous towee and places it at the same coordinates.

I omitted a few minor steps but basically that's it.

[Creston]

Awesome stuff, thanks Gazz

Creston

[lips of a moose]

[Ikaruga]

Is it possible to tow a complex or an enemy ship with that ?

If yes, then I love it

[TemplarThano]

Edit : X3:R version is Here

[argon_emperor]

I tried using this script, I have a tractor beam on board, and the command shows up in the menu, but regardless of what I target, when I run the command, I get a verbal notification of 'malfunction'. Is something wrong? does anyone else get this problem?

[Skott]

The tractor beam should be present in the cargo bay, not installed...

All in all, I actually like the stock tractor beam better. It has the benefit of a sort of clumsy majesty. But there are times when you just feel the need to slam a gigantic asteroid into an unwitting station, you know? And the stock tractor beam has the unfortunate indignity of not being able to tow anything you don't own. Silly, silly, silly. It should at least be able to snag asteroids.

[Cdaragorn]