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HowieTallGuy Ensign
Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 19 Location: New River, AZ
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: Tractor triangle? |
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What happens when ship one tractors ship two and then ship three tractors ship two? Does the first tractor remain in effect? What way do the ships move? |
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junior Captain
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 803
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Two ships can't both have tractor beams on the same target at the same time. In the event that this situation starts to arise, you have a tractor auction between the two ships. The ship that spends more energy on its tractor beam is the ship that gets to keep the tractor beam in place. |
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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and all three ships expend whatever power was spent on the auction... even the ship that fails to get a tractor lock. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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[To clarify] actually, the chain was this:
Ship 1 (speed 24) tractored Ship 2 (speed 16) which had no power remaining to contest the tractor.
Ship 3 (speed 16) then tractored Ship 1. An auction was initiated, which Ship 3 won.
It was understood that if Ship 3 had tried to tractor Ship 2, it wouldn't work as Ship 2 was already being tractored by Ship 1. Instead, the attempt was at the ship already tractoring (not being tractored).
I was Ship 1. Howie was Ship 2. Another member (Jerrod) was Ship 3.
Our quandary was what happens to movement. The initial tractoring ship was the fastest and would be the controlling ship for movement, but what happens when he himself is tractored and loses? _________________
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junior Captain
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 803
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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You can't generate a tractor beam if you're being tractored. The tractor beam that ship 1 is applying to ship 2 counts as negative tractor energy to counteract the tractor beam from ship 3. If ship 3 successfully applies the tractor beam to ship 1, then ship 1 loses its beam to ship 2. |
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willhc Lieutenant JG
Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Redmond, WA
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting...if the original tractor counted as negative tractor to the new attempt things might have changed (not that anything was really affected anyways).
Of course, killing the tractor on the ship leads to some interesting tactics with drones. _________________ D7 off the asteroid, through the Ion storm, nothing but net. |
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junior Captain
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 803
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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willhc wrote: | Of course, killing the tractor on the ship leads to some interesting tactics with drones. |
Potentially, yes.
Which is why you need to be REALLY careful about letting yourself get tractored.
This is also the same thing that prompted the debate (on the other forum) over what happens if Team A fires a drone at Team B that is then tractored by Team C who attempts to drag it into the same hex as the targetted ship. |
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mjwest Commodore
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4075 Location: Dallas, Texas
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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OK, let me take this one at a time.
If two ships try to tractor the same object, a tractor auction ensues. You can use this to break an existing tractor link. So, for example, Ship A tractors Object C in Impulse 2. Ship B then attempts to tractor the same Object C in Impulse 5. Ships A and B then engage in a tractor auction to see who ends up with the active link to Object C. This is straight out (5D5b).
If a ship has a tractor link to another ship (not object, but specifically ship), and it is tractored, then the two tractoring ships conduct an auction to see which tractor will remain. A ship cannot both be tractored by a ship and have its own tractor to another ship. For example, Ship A has tractored Ship B. If Ship C tractors Ship A, then Ships A and C engage in a tractor auction to see whose tractor remains. Note that if Ship A tractored Object B, and Ship C tractors Ship A, then both tractors remain in effect. This is covered by rule (5D5c) introduced in the Briefing #1 rules update.
Tractor daisy-chains are not allowed in Federation Commander. A given ship can only be tractored by one other ship OR tractor one other ship.
One last item: Defensive tractors are not affected by any of the above. An impacted drone may not be tractored by any ship other than its target. Therefore, it is not possible to force a tractor auction over an impacted drone. Also, if a ship holding an impacted drone in a tractor is itself tractored, the defensive tractor is not affected. _________________
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mjwest Commodore
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4075 Location: Dallas, Texas
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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junior wrote: | This is also the same thing that prompted the debate (on the other forum) over what happens if Team A fires a drone at Team B that is then tractored by Team C who attempts to drag it into the same hex as the targetted ship. |
The result of this discussion was that a tractored drone cannot impact anything while it is tractored. So, if a tractored drone is moved into the same hex as its target (by accident by an ally or at all by a hostile third party), the drone cannot impacted until the tractor is released. _________________
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Mike. _________________
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