Not feeling so hot about the tractor beam and players per se, as in lifting them out of a situation, but how about setting up a trip wire kind of mechanism? Set up two relays, and a tractor beam activates between them. Any vehicle trying to drive through them gets stuck in place until the beam is brought down.

Slightly less OP in my opinion, but interesting enough.

currently at a mining op in new eden, and i've noticed that there are tractor beams pulling containers full of loot and i said to myself:

"why dont we fit a dropship with this beam and pull up our guys out of harms way should the need arise"

so here is the idea, squadmate is flying a dropship, surveying the battlefield then his Sqd leader calls for a quick pickup. Pilot knows that there are a fair number of forge rounds flying everywhere and he'll have only seconds to make the pickup.

so he decided to simply hover a fair distance from the ground and activates the beam, the squad leader and whats left of his squad are suddenly lifted up off the ground and back up into the dropship. cargo secured, the pilot puts the afterburners on full blast and they fly to safety.

Restrictions:
very high cooldown time, to prevent spamming the beam all over the place

squad based module, you need to lock on to the squad first in order to activate the beam

benefits:
Rapid extraction

incentive to fly dropships for your squad

DAT SCENERY

anyways i've rambled long enough,there's the idea ,what do you think?

Safe hunting

currently at a mining op in new eden, and i've noticed that there are tractor beams pulling containers full of loot and i said to myself:

"why dont we fit a dropship with this beam and pull up our guys out of harms way should the need arise"

so here is the idea, squadmate is flying a dropship, surveying the battlefield then his Sqd leader calls for a quick pickup. Pilot knows that there are a fair number of forge rounds flying everywhere and he'll have only seconds to make the pickup.

so he decided to simply hover a fair distance from the ground and activates the beam, the squad leader and whats left of his squad are suddenly lifted up off the ground and back up into the dropship. cargo secured, the pilot puts the afterburners on full blast and they fly to safety.

Restrictions:
very high cooldown time, to prevent spamming the beam all over the place

squad based module, you need to lock on to the squad first in order to activate the beam

benefits:
Rapid extraction

incentive to fly dropships for your squad

DAT SCENERY

anyways i've rambled long enough,there's the idea ,what do you think?

Safe hunting

It should have to be activated by a corresponding infantry equipment to make it more squad oriented. it could be that you pick up the area around the beacon.

Allowing it to effect reds would be nice.
See a sniper on a tower and yank him up, and throw him off.

Also, allow it pick up squad vehicles (give it tiers so at ADV it can lift LAVs and at PRO it can lift HAVs).

Either way you have a solid idea.

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.