Repulser beams are way stronger than I thought...

[Lisif Deoral]

Repulser beams may target planets. Do they actually work against planets (without extensive modding, I mean)?

Lisif,
trying to imagine an escort juggling with a planet during tactical combat...

[TerranC]

PLANETS?

That shouldnt be. Maybe You read wrong?

Edit: Huh. May target all but seekers... Something is very wrong with this statement.

[ 27 March 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Suicide Junkie]

You can only push things with less mass than you have.
Planets can't be pushed around.
And don't bother trying to push a moon with a planet.

[Lisif Deoral]

Well, I wonder why components.txt allows tractor and repulser beams to target planets, and it might actually work (in a mod, of course - although I suppose it won't be very useful).
What is the effective tonnage of a planet? Maybe by modding a "light" planet or a really big ship size...

[Suicide Junkie]

The effective tonnage of all stellar objects is infinite. They don't even get pulled around by black holes (but ships and sats get stripped out of planetary orbit )