Force Turret that acts as an Inertia Dampener for the target

[Uthael]

Sometimes you just need to hold your target in place. Take for example a station that's floating away. Or a stick-ship spinning like a fan. Or to grab and hold in place one of those pests that come out of hangar blocks.

 

For cases like these, I'd suggest a Force Turret that acts like an Inertia Dampener. Or that it just applies its force in the opposite direction of target's movement.

[Rinart73]

Agree. Maybe current force turrents need to be changed to work like that. They're currently useless anyway.

[Uthael]

Nonono, I've made good use of most of the existiong turrets.

 

Except "Self" turrets. I use thrusters for that. And all of their use could be exchanged for some im-gme commands (like follow and keep at distance, for example)

[Rinart73]

Nonono, I've made good use of most of the existiong turrets.

Please tell me "how" then. Because maximum that I've achieved is moving tiny asteroid at 3km/s speed while constantly firing at it with current force turrets.

[Uthael]

To move friendly ships I have no access to (for different reasons)

To rotate a station

For trolling

To try to emulate the efects from the original suggestion

 

Edit: those different reasons include saving them from a "AI can't move or they collide" stalemate, pushing idlers away so they're not collateral damage, freeing up a station dock, moving NPCs away from salvage so the laser doesn't affect my reputation with them, and maybe some more.

 

Currently, my ship is equipped with 1 salvage laser, a lot of force turrets (they stack effects, ofc) and an array of railguns. I just switch upgrades for armed/unarmed turrets.