Can you tow gates?

[greypanther]

Well has anyone tried? Are there repurcussions?
I was thinking of my own sector.

[Starlight_Corporation]

Sorry, gates are fixed and indestructable, so can't move or destroy them.

[Flozem]

You can piss off local defense forces by attacking them though... I believe a tractor beam counts as aggression as well.

[StarSword]

Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo.

In vanilla, the tractor beam simply doesn't work on anything the player doesn't own. This is to prevent the obvious exploit where the player drags an enemy ship into an asteroid.

[Triaxx2]

Or an asteroid into an enemy ship. (Not that it's impossible, you've just got to have a mine on it.

Check out the Super Tractor Beam in S&M

[greypanther]

Funny, I thought I did own the one in my own sector! I just do not like the orientation.

[StarSword]

Funny, I thought I did own the one in my own sector! I just do not like the orientation.

If its icon isn't green, and it doesn't have the letter 'Y' at the start of its ID code, it ain't yours.

[greypanther]

Bloody cheating Paranid ^*>%!
I will have to watch the visiting pirates better too!

[StarSword]

Bloody cheating Paranid ^*>%!

Explain.

(Been on a Stargate: SG-1 binge.)

[greypanther]

The Paranid who ' sold ' the sector at the office thingy? ( New Home Plot )
Silly me assumed it would include all the fixtures and fittings!

[StarSword]

The Paranid who ' sold ' the sector at the office thingy? ( New Home Plot )
Silly me assumed it would include all the fixtures and fittings!

Oh, that. I hope you looked around the guides and/or the wiki before choosing the sector. They're not all alike.

And no: it comes with lots of high-yield asteroids, but no assets apart from that.

[greypanther]

Yeh I saved before, so I could check each personally, before settling finaly.
I chose the least popular it seems. I just love that red planet.
Problem is I have a large defence force, which I will need as my end game will be the supression of the Split, the positioniong of which is made more difficult by the positioning of the gate so close to several Asteroids and rocks. ( I am finding hard to bring myself to destroy a high yield Nvidium roid. )
Think I may put my HQ in there too. Or not, as the whim takes me.

[SkullCowboy]

Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo.

In vanilla, the tractor beam simply doesn't work on anything the player doesn't own. This is to prevent the obvious exploit where the player drags an enemy ship into an asteroid.

Why would that be considered an exploit? Legitimate tactic says I.

Anybody remember the Star Fleet Command series of games?

[VincentTH]

Funny, I thought I did own the one in my own sector! I just do not like the orientation.

If its icon isn't green, and it doesn't have the letter 'Y' at the start of its ID code, it ain't yours.

of course with the exception of plot related ships, like in the case of the Hyperion in X3R, and the Mobile Mining Base in the Aldrin2 plot.

[StarSword]

I wouldn't consider it an exploit if the AI was capable of doing the same thing. Sure, you can mod the game to where the AI strafes, uses Turbo Booster, etc. But I've never heard of a mod where the AI uses tractor beams, offensively or otherwise.

[StarSword]

Funny, I thought I did own the one in my own sector! I just do not like the orientation.

If its icon isn't green, and it doesn't have the letter 'Y' at the start of its ID code, it ain't yours.

of course with the exception of plot related ships, like in the case of the Hyperion in X3R, and the Mobile Mining Base in the Aldrin2 plot.

Can you give commands to it? Fly it? Transfer freight to it? Dock at it?

If not, it's not yours.

[VincentTH]

Funny, I thought I did own the one in my own sector! I just do not like the orientation.

If its icon isn't green, and it doesn't have the letter 'Y' at the start of its ID code, it ain't yours.

of course with the exception of plot related ships, like in the case of the Hyperion in X3R, and the Mobile Mining Base in the Aldrin2 plot.

Can you give commands to it? Fly it? Transfer freight to it? Dock at it?

If not, it's not yours.

Oh, I responded in the context of what you can tractor-beam, not what you own

[StarSword]

'Nuff said.