44 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:A couple examples: If they are in a Sil 4, Speed 3 ship and are tractored by a VSD (tractor value 9) they would face a difficulty of RPPPP (which is actually no different from the base game), which I think is reasonable given the situation. Likewise, if they were in a Sil 5 ship with a medium tractor beam and tried to tractor an NPC's starfighter (Sil 3, Speed 5) the difficulty for the NPC would be PPP. Not all that hard. I believe that my rules are exceptionally balanced (even if I do say so myself) and I think that they don't not fit within universe (I can't say that they "fit" cause we don't really know enough).
Your system doesn't differentiate between a military sil 5 ship with a heavy duty combat tractor beam and a sil 5 civilian cargo ship with a tractor beam that's mostly used for moving cargo around and facilitating docking.