What kinds of ships are we thinking can use a tractor beam? Is this something that only specific ships can use, or is this something [that goes in] utility slots?
TL;DRThey are looking into letting players swap a weapon or turret for a tractor beam turret on other ships, but it is not committed and depends on it proving fun and not breaking gameplay.
So we're also looking into allowing players to put them on maybe a ship that's not initially thought of with a tractor beam. Let's say you have a smaller ship and you need to have more of a utilitarian purpose to it. And maybe the thing we're looking into right now is allowing the player to remove one of their weapons or one of their missile bays or one of the turrets and equip a tractor beam turret. They will lose some firepower, but it will allow them to have other functions in the game rather than just pew-pewing everyone. So they might be able to assist in a mining operation or work as a hauler, a mini hauler between two Hulls, for example.
So when you say we're looking into, that's not something that we're committed to yet?
No. We are looking into it. If it works and it doesn't break other things in the game and it's worth doing, then yeah, we'll move right on that. Like everything, it needs to be proven, it needs to be fun, it needs to not break the existing gameplay.