Beam cannons?

[sovereign]

leaves the question - how are the tractor beams coded? - they do move with the ship - and stay up several frames.

they also define a point of origin and a target point. - maybe the tractor beams might be converted into a weapon of sorts. ( however - from what i know - tractor beams can also lag out a client. - especially when its a huge bunch of objects being connected to the beams )

That hasn't been tried, as far as I'm aware. If we can trick the engine into aiming a tractor beam at some point in space, we could get the effect. However, there would be an excessive amount of code needed to get it hitting stuff properly and aiming where you want it... I estimate it would be even laggier than the sky-high refire method.

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