1: so, i was playing with a tractor beam today and had a realization.. they could be used to build working carriers that don't lag like moded ones do. so i built this

just use the tractor beams to collect and eject the fighters. when ejecting them, just have the beam push the fighters for a very short duration of time.
one flaw with that is the fighters will want to go somewhere else, tho i find that not to much of a problem.
2: i also realized that if you have enough of them, you can push stuff away in combat and just litter them with missiles.

3: my last idea is that if you line your ship with moded melee weapons, you can pull ships into the melee weapons and obliterate them
pretty cool eh?