But its really a laser you shoot out or a static beam?

A laser IS a static beam. Well the reals are at least. And the one in this mod.

Turning it into a weapon would be great, have turrets in larger ships that just fire a beam of emp and hold a ship in place.

If a code could be added so that as long as the beam is in place the operator could move the ship. (not like taking control but slowly move it in the direction they are facing, speed could also be dependant on their size)

Hm...yea that is how a tractor beam should work.

It would be cool if a tractor beam projector first worked when the enemy's ships systems were disabled by ion cannons. Would add more balance to the game. In fact it would be dumb if every ISD would be able to tow a ship into his hangar but if the gunners first disabled the systems it would be more "realistic" because the ship would be not able to fend itself against the mighty ISD and so be a easy target.

In the films the Tantive IV is first towed into the station after the main reactor is disabled by the crew. So the mod would follow the films' logics.

I am sorry for every spelling misstake I made in this post but I am drunk at the moment. *g*

I think it would be best for corvette vrs capital ship... so the capital ships can freeze the corvettes.

That sounds very laggy to me, as you'd essentially have to spawn dozens of rockets (that looked like a beam)

If a code could be added so that as long as the beam is in place the operator could move the ship. (not like taking control but slowly move it in the direction they are facing, speed could also be dependant on their size)

mabey long lasting emp with new animation = tractor beam lol

That would work perfectly - an EMP beam that would freeze ships in place. Obviously it would have a limit, so you couldnt hold them for ever... maybe 30 seconds? Then you run out of charge and would take a minute or so to recharge.

Tractor beams would be immensely fun - imagine tractoring an assault shuttle of some sort as it apprached your hanagr and it getting blown apart by bombers.

A rebel Corvette flys too near to an ISD and that one now gets its tractor beam working on the Corvette. What now? The commander of the ISD is a fool and just flys the corvette into the next asteroid so that it takes damage or is even destroyed.

Don't think that that would be very nice.

That freezing scenario is better (in my opinion), although I think that the time of freezing would have to be lowered a bit. About 30 seconds maybe with a 1 1/2 minute recharge time of the tractor beam projector or so.
Would be balanacing that thing a bit and giving a partial feeling of a real tractor beam.

Or if it is possible and doable with the BF2142/BF2 Engine the ship (if it is not too big) could be towed into the ISD's main hangar without making the commander able to steer the towed ship.