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Is it just me, or did FDEV perform a lobotomy on the Advanced Docking Computer? With my unshielded Cutter or Panther Clipper, it normally gets into the station without problems. When leaving, it bumps into structures on the inside of the station and takes damage.
My shielded Cutter often tries to hit the station which is why I always keep an eye on what it and the ADC are up to, the Panther hasn’t hit the station once though I have had to go manual to deal with other ships blocking the slot.
So I would say the ADC is its usual untrustworthy self.
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Do you need a size 8 power plant?
You'd probably be better off with a 7A (or even lower if you're not using that much power) with low emissions (if you can get away with it) and thermal spread.
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No matter the ship, ADC will bump into buildings inside the docking bay (honestly, why the hell are there big towers and things inside a DOCKING BAY anyway??) and sometimes even other ships. AI pathfinding in the game has never been particularly good - it rammed my Cutter into the noob-hammer of a starport the other day, from 100% hull to 19% in one hit, but luckily the rest of the landing went alright.
I am using about 105% of the output of the 8D, overcharged G1, when hardpoints are deployed. I just now compared those power plants in EDSY, and I see that the 7A is in every way better than the 8D. I should replace that when I have the time. With Armoured G2 and stripped down it is quite optimal.
I'll go out on a limb and say the lower size A is always better than the D. I've compared the stats on my PC build, 7A vs 8D, both armored G5 no experimental, but the 8D can't really run all modules because it doesn't have enough power.
Mass: 48 t vs 76.8 t
Integrity: 316.8 vs. 264
Power capacity: 33.6 MW vs. 30.24 MW
Heat efficiency: 0.352 vs. 0.66
The 8D is worse in every aspect and needs OC of grade 3 because it cannot run the ship even if I add monstered. Making the 8D OC G3 fixes the power output but takes the heat efficiency to a whopping 0.8625 which is ouchy hot.
slightly off topic buy trying to login and says no connection to servers? claims the status is good?
To hand in the CG and get the cash, you have to go back to the CG station, yes.
If you ignore it for a few weeks, you'll get the credits paid into your account automatically.
The modules will be in storage at the CG station and you can then transfer them anywhere else as normal.
I've used auto dock and launch extensively while colonising and found that when there are large station structures directly in the launch path, even my Python tends to clip them occasionally. I assume larger ships would be more likely to do so. It seems the computer does not raise the ship vertically enough before moving toward the mail slot on a direct vector that can intersect a corner of the tall structures that sometimes sit just in front of the pad. Not so much a lobotomy (it does very well except in somewhat exceptional circumstances) as a weak ability to gauge path integrity due to inaccurate(?) awareness of the station internal landscape.
Gives them time to tinker with vanguard update without also having to gin up a CG.
Again, what moron would have built those structures inside a docking bay, especially between the entrance and the landing pads.
I can't see any logical reason to do so.
Nor I, it is definitely a safety hazard. I guess the workaround is if you sit behind one of these towers, switch off auto launch to get above and beyond them, then back on for exiting the mail slot. Clumsy but should avoid collisions more reliably.