<Mud_Pandemonium> Recycler ships could have a new type of tractor beam to.
<Mud_Pandemonium> One the art department could really have fun with.
<Mud_Pandemonium> not so much a tractor beam.
<Mud_Pandemonium> as a cable with a grappling hook.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Oh god just thinking about what they could do with the new engine.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Okay picture the Minmatar Recycler ship.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Looks like a mini typhoon.
<Mud_Pandemonium> On the front it has four turrets.
<Mud_Pandemonium> behind each turret set into the ship (half exposed)
<Mud_Pandemonium> is four gigantic spools
<Mud_Pandemonium> behind each turret.
<Mud_Pandemonium> each one wrapped with rusty chain.
<Mud_Pandemonium> fernite carbide chain I guess.
<Mud_Pandemonium> When you go to tractor a wreck.
<Mud_Pandemonium> the turret points in the direction of the wreck.
<Mud_Pandemonium> the chain shoots out, BAM, hits the wreck, really fast as not to look goofy.
<Mud_Pandemonium> then the cool animations start.
<Mud_Pandemonium> the spool of chain rolls backwards and the chain starts shortening, pulling the grappled wreck with it.
<Mud_Pandemonium> in between each of the four turrets.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Is 4 gears
<Mud_Pandemonium> interlocking at 45 degree angles
<Mud_Pandemonium> this is where the wrecks get "crushed" (just for show, this doesn't actually happen)
<Mud_Pandemonium> the ship itself could look really thrown together.
<Mud_Pandemonium> armor panels mismatched.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Some welded on.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Some with huge bolts.
<Mud_Pandemonium> the engines could smoke a little.
<Mud_Pandemonium> sometimes a little surge of electricity will spark off the engine.
<Mud_Pandemonium> when the reprocessing module is activated smoke could bellow out from between cracks in some of the armor plates, where the seams don't meet.
<Mud_Pandemonium> I wish I had maya skills :(
<Mud_Pandemonium> The amarrian Recycler could look more regal.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Instead of having the four interlocking gears at the front.
<Mud_Pandemonium> It could have 4 mandibles (think predator)
<Mud_Pandemonium> they could move as if they were forcing things into a tunnel of golden blades that ends in a glowing orange
<Mud_Pandemonium> caldari have the most advanced tech.
<Mud_Pandemonium> advanced shields.
<Mud_Pandemonium> so maybe they have some sort of atomizer array at the front of their ships.
<Mud_Pandemonium> then the gallente could have 4 "portals" from bumps on the front of the ships that act as holding pods.
<Mud_Pandemonium> Or three rather, they'
<Mud_Pandemonium> Gallente have really organic ships.
<Mud_Pandemonium> so one atop another, perfectly aligned.
<Mud_Pandemonium> then a third halfway between them vertically on the other side.
<Mud_Pandemonium> the animated could be a tiny swarm of nanodrones.
<Mud_Pandemonium> little black specks that blink randomly.
<Mud_Pandemonium> The gallente tractor beam could be drones that are "nested" in the top, in similar pods.
<[BH]********> how is all of this going to look on systems that CAN'T use the new graphics software?
<Mud_Pandemonium> When the tractor beam is activated the drone on top pops up, flies towards the wreck and hauls it back (animation purely, no extra entity)
<Mud_Pandemonium> *******, on systems that use the old engine the ships don't have all the fancy moving parts and the tractors look like normal.