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Old April 17th, 2002, 12:44 AM
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Default Re: Tractor & Repulser weapons

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Originally posted by dmm:
OTOH, bigger ships can do that now, in reverse, to smaller and same-size ships. So it can't be terribly unbalancing. At least, I haven't heard anyone complain. Can anyone think of a reason why this is less unbalancing than the above would be?


Well, if you could T/R your own ship, you'd be moving relative to the entire enemy fleet, whereas if you just T/R an enemy ship, only one enemy ship is affected. Very often, there is more than one enemy ship, so you embarass one of them, and then his pals come stomp you. If you could T/R yourself in and out, you could embarass the whole enemy fleet, until you got stuck on the map edge and they nailed you.

Of course, if you miss, you embarass yourself... and get stomped.

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