Recycler ships could have a new type of tractor beam to. One the art department could really have fun with. not so much a tractor beam. as a cable with a grappling hook. Oh god just thinking about what they could do with the new engine. Okay picture the Minmatar Recycler ship. Looks like a mini typhoon. On the front it has four turrets. behind each turret set into the ship (half exposed) is four gigantic spools behind each turret. each one wrapped with rusty chain. fernite carbide chain I guess. When you go to tractor a wreck. the turret points in the direction of the wreck. the chain shoots out, BAM, hits the wreck, really fast as not to look goofy. then the cool animations start. the spool of chain rolls backwards and the chain starts shortening, pulling the grappled wreck with it. in between each of the four turrets. Is 4 gears interlocking at 45 degree angles this is where the wrecks get "crushed" (just for show, this doesn't actually happen) the ship itself could look really thrown together. armor panels mismatched. Some welded on. Some with huge bolts. the engines could smoke a little. sometimes a little surge of electricity will spark off the engine. 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. I wish I had maya skills :( The amarrian Recycler could look more regal. Instead of having the four interlocking gears at the front. It could have 4 mandibles (think predator) they could move as if they were forcing things into a tunnel of golden blades that ends in a glowing orange caldari have the most advanced tech. advanced shields. so maybe they have some sort of atomizer array at the front of their ships. then the gallente could have 4 "portals" from bumps on the front of the ships that act as holding pods. Or three rather, they' Gallente have really organic ships. so one atop another, perfectly aligned. then a third halfway between them vertically on the other side. the animated could be a tiny swarm of nanodrones. little black specks that blink randomly. 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? 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) *******, on systems that use the old engine the ships don't have all the fancy moving parts and the tractors look like normal.