Has anyone noticed this, when heading towards a destination station the npc ships are flying along rotating clockwise and the docking computer is now stuffing up its final landing. My ship will enter the station ok but will then try to land off to the left of the pad or just hover.
This bug has just appeared up since the last patch. 1.06
I am currently in Empire space around the Herengul system.
I've noted those permanently "aileron rolling" NPC ships as well in V1.06... No clue what causes this.
The Docking Computer's failure to land correctly in Stations is actually as old as early Beta days.
Reason : before making its final down Thruster movement, it is actually and always slightly displaced to the left.
Upon thrusting downwards, the Docking Computer makes an overcorrective movement to the right - effectively missing its engagement point a bit to the right (just outside catch envelope).
After this happens and the Craft is slammed onto the Pad right off the engagement limits - it will scratch towards the left in a vain attempt to correct, but which will not result in a successful catch.
This way, it will oversteer far to the left (most pronounced on the Type-9), actually hitting obstacles left of the Pad.
Then again trying to steer to the right, it usually gets stuck on something that prevents its sliding back to the right.
Unless your Shields are depleted before it frees itself for the final move to the right again (results in successful catch), this is usually where the "Docking Desaster" a.k.a. Docking Computer finishes its absymal and dangerous work.
The root of these problems is in the Rotational Correction not working 100% inside Stations. All ships, when using vertical Thrusters, will encounter some rotational error, resulting in a small undesired offset to the right (when docking). This is essentially what is causing the Docking Computer to permanently miss its touchdown point.
It slamming the Craft onto the Pad like a druken sailor has been bug-reported a long long time ago - never got fixed.
Overall, the Docking Computer's performance is plain....
absymal. This is early Alpha material and has no reason to exist in a V1.06 Release version.
To make things worse - it (and other issues) has been bug-reported
countless times since half a year. But nothing happened...
It's frustrating to have to select a different star, and then select the one the route plotting is taking me through to confirm there are not any close orbiting stars to jump inside of.
