Yes there is if you have a landing pad in a station. It's all relative to your pad.
Please Use the Correct Entry/Exit!
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Yes there is if you have a landing pad in a station. It's all relative to your pad.
doing my trade run last night, loaded up at station. Looked at my credits, 'Ooof, thats a big hit. Will be ok though...' took off, alligned with slit, thrusters on, landing gear up, booooooost! Straight through the letter box, clipped some noob npc sidewinder coming in through the red light side. Hit top of letter box, no worries still alive alls cool. Kinda spun out of letter box very close to top of station somehow. Squeeky bum moment over..... Make a grab for my cup of tea and watch as the station revolves and takes me out!! Oops. Luckily had just enough for a rebuy but all that hard work....... Sad thing is, i bet i do it again.
And i had shields... Anyways,get over it and get some shields. Gotta behonest, if i see you flying without shields i will pirate you. Have a nice day
I am destined to be forever skint but its the fun factor that matters :}
And i had shields... Anyways,get over it and get some shields. Gotta behonest, if i see you flying without shields i will pirate you. Have a nice day
I am destined to be forever skint but its the fun factor that matters :}
No Up in Space? How come Star Trek ships always managed to face each other in the 'upright' position...
<ducks and hides to watch the fireworks...>
<ducks and hides to watch the fireworks...>
Nice explanation Chummy, cheers
I think if I built a giant space station, I'd have two completely different ports/portals for entry/exit, and a mostly-one-way system like your average multi-storey car park. Designated points to raise/lower your altitude to enter/exit landing platforms. Also, having a platform in a space station that rotates you between "entry and exit facing"... is quite ironic So much space, so much freedom - one "lane" running entry to exit in a U-shape around the station, job done. Rotating landing platforms! In SPACE!
I think if I built a giant space station, I'd have two completely different ports/portals for entry/exit, and a mostly-one-way system like your average multi-storey car park. Designated points to raise/lower your altitude to enter/exit landing platforms. Also, having a platform in a space station that rotates you between "entry and exit facing"... is quite ironic
So much space, so much freedom - one "lane" running entry to exit in a U-shape around the station, job done. Rotating landing platforms! In SPACE! Race you to interdict him!
Nice explanation Chummy, cheers
I think if I built a giant space station, I'd have two completely different ports/portals for entry/exit, and a mostly-one-way system like your average multi-storey car park. Designated points to raise/lower your altitude to enter/exit landing platforms. Also, having a platform in a space station that rotates you between "entry and exit facing"... is quite ironic
Yeah, I can see that now... Boost, full speed, enter, target, fire dumbfire missiles, boom, exit, out of range of station's lasers.
If you're already in the mail slot, and someone's barreling towards you, you need to make a split second decision which way to dodge. Your choices are horizontally, vertically, or laterally. There isn't much to room to dodge vertically, dodging forward or backwards isn't a good option either, so your only option is to dodge laterally, towards the red light or green light. Of all the various real-world standards out there, naval, aeronautics, and ground car traffic, there is only one standard that I know of that insists that "red" is the right choice.
So my best chance to avoid a collision is to go green.
Boost In - Boost Out..... I will not follow your "rules". *SCNR*
As a Smuggler and Slave Trader, I have to adopt this procedure to avoid scans and fines. It's worth checking the Radar before committing to the boost button!
Afternoon Commanders,
I will attempt to try to clear this up....!
Fly safe,
Simon
I will attempt to try to clear this up....!
- The lights are orientation lights so you can align your ship to the station in a consistent way. If you enter a station with the green on your right and red on your left you will find that the docking pad numbers are arranged front to back, clockwise, starting from below you. For legacy reasons, Pad numbers 1 and 13 were reversed. This is now fixed and will be included in a future update. All other pads follow a consistent numbering convention.
- There is no “traffic light” system in operation.
- The reason for the red lights on the cage flashing and the green ones kept steady is to help people with colour-blindness difficulties distinguish between them.
- Be considerate – use your scanner and look around, if someone is coming through the portal be patient and let them pass.
- Small ships should give way to large ships.
- If commanders wish to use the “green” side of the portal to enter or exit from the station it is up to them, but it is not a convention, rule or the intended use of the lights. Large ships will need to use the centre of the portal to pass through anyway. NPC ships will always pass through the middle.
- If you exit the station with the inner green light on your right and the red on your left, you will be orientated the same way up as an incoming ship, facilitating a gentlemanly wave between cockpit glass and the wish of good fortune between pilots.
Fly safe,
Simon
In other words, Wing it!
"facilitating a gentlemanly wave between cockpit glass and the wish of good fortune between pilots".
Ever the optimist!
Ever the optimist!
People really thought the navigation lights were traffic lights? Hahaha, oh wow. Have you never seen an airplane? Red light for left wingtip, green for right. I just figured they were a way for the station to indicate which way is "up" so pilots told to keep to the left don't reply "which left?"
I don't look at such things normally however got me thinking, is it the same as port & starboard, hopefully it is as that would make sense.
Port and starboard are nautical terms which refer to the left and right sides, respectively, of a ship as perceived by a person on board facing the bow (front of the ship). In lay terms, when observing the bow from the bridge of a watercraft, port (RED) refers to the left side of the ship and starboard (GREEN) refers to the right.
Port and starboard are nautical terms which refer to the left and right sides, respectively, of a ship as perceived by a person on board facing the bow (front of the ship). In lay terms, when observing the bow from the bridge of a watercraft, port (RED) refers to the left side of the ship and starboard (GREEN) refers to the right.
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To the people that thought the lights were traffic lights... if you always go green, you are entering and exiting on the same side. How did you think this would work?
They are obviously orientation lights as is confirmed.
You should drive your ship like you drive your car, give way to the big haulers, because they are hard to manouver and they really appreciate your courtesy. Also, it avoids you dying.
They are obviously orientation lights as is confirmed.
You should drive your ship like you drive your car, give way to the big haulers, because they are hard to manouver and they really appreciate your courtesy. Also, it avoids you dying.
Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
"facilitating a gentlemanly wave between cockpit glass and the wish of good fortune between pilots".
Ever the optimist!
CMDR Greg K Liberator has deployed hardpoints...
(my version of a gentlemanly wave).
How weird. Just recently I was entering a station and some crazy foo' in a Lakon-7 came rattling in on the wrong side of the entrance! Not sure where he went, but I heard a muffled scream followed by a boom...
Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
No you're not
You've spent too much time on the Norfolk Broads, that said it does amaze me how it's hell to leather in the cars fighting for the smallest gap and then suddenly on the water it's waving to every boat that passes!