Good for you! If the garage dates from 1906 as well, was it built to house a horse and carriage? Bit more space needed than for an Austin 6 from 30 years later.
PS hope you've got good locks on there with all that loot in it.
anaconda blowing up outside station enterance
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Good for you! If the garage dates from 1906 as well, was it built to house a horse and carriage? Bit more space needed than for an Austin 6 from 30 years later.
PS hope you've got good locks on there with all that loot in it.
Yes indeed.
I don't think the safety of the ships crashing into it is of any concern to the station itself. It has obviously been built to withstand pilot error/suicide.
The safety being referred to is the safety of the station and the security of the atmosphere it contains. A smaller door means a smaller and more secure shield, and a more easily deployed blast shield.
So, yes, it is the much safer option.
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1. The atsmophere is not necessary.
2. the entire argument boils down to the size of the blast doors(if there are any) and the amount of energy needed to close/open the blast doors.
3. none of these arguments have anything to do with safty.
4. An anaconda torpedoing the entrance of the station IS a safty issue, If the anaconda hits the inside of the entrance it will spread shrapnel all over the inside of the station.
5. And not only shrapnel, That atsmophere that is not needed but is still there might just turn this station into a giant fire hazard.
Its the "funner" and more interesting option.
Did you loot any surviving cargo??? Or can't you do that yet?
1: David Braben himself has mentioned that the air is there as an "open space" inside station, perhaps the only time cockpit-bound spacers ever get to move around a large space. There can be other practical reasons too, as covered already. You may not like it, but there's no inherent wrongness to the idea.
2: Not the ENTIRE argument, but part of it, yes.
3: Incorrect. A small shield being easier to maintain and possible blast doors being easier to close ARE safety issues, as is the door being small enough that small failures don't expel all the atmosphere. Definitely a safety issue.
4: Maybe in a small way, but less so than if an Anaconda crashed into weaker bigger doors. Much easier to reinforce smaller doors. Shrapnel and debris can easily be taken care of by the laser defence system, both inside and outside.
5: No it won't. It's not pure oxygen and it won't suddenly burst into flames. If small fires did break out, there would be fire suppression systems and first responders to take care of it. Still totally worth it for reasons given in point 1, amongst others.
Aside from these points, i still think an alignment display as you get close to the doors, just like the one when you land on the pad, would take care of most of the issues of getting larger ships in the door.
That gave me idea. If pilots get clearance to land that would also give him indicator in radar space or in hud ect. Maybe in place where shape of station is shown. Indicator similar as this aiming for tractor beam. It would show player place in which he can enter station.
That way flight control would easily estimate ship dimensions and they could even make few ships to pass each other with not to big distances.
If pilot would ignore that and entered/exited station in onter point then it would be an offense and he would be fined for that.
And thanx to that there would be no need to separate entrance for entering/exiting ships
Automatic shield disable ok I can agree on that. It would be more fun to go through procedure of landing like when landing in jet sim but ED is future so at least some things should be automatic.
Only reason I see is that cool effect of that announcer voice echoing
Of course it can be explained in other ways. But everything can have its excuses.
But filling that huge space with air just to hear that cool echo and few minor reasons.... not really smart
Oh right lol. I saw those lights when I was watching vids but my thoughts was focused on other things then
So I am now watching vid of docking sequence and from outside on both sides there are blinking green lights so it is not indicating side. On middle there are 4 reed symmetrically placed lights and in middle of them there are 2 yellow lights. All blinking. So there is no side indication for enter.
While exiting there indeed are green light on one side and red on other side. And those 4 reds and 2 yellow lights. But if that green and red light are intended to show which side pilots should exit station? I am not sure.
How about a counter-rotating slit, so the station can rotate around itself to get the G'ees and the front plate with a rectangle slit rotates the other way, so it basically stands still. Prego!
In case of an attack the counter-rotation can be stopped to make boarding more difficult because now the slit rotates with the station or even accellerated "spinning slit of death" to make docking virtually impossible while also closing the doors armor plates.
Yes I agree with that. Entrance should be made that way so it would not rotate at all. Best solution. It would be also easy because force to move that part with hole would be ridiculous because of 0 so there would be needed good bearings and little push in opposite direction of rotating station.
Thanx to that those big anacondas and other big ships would not be needed to spin. Imagine all those crew members required to hold or strap themselves to something because of centrifugal forces
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well, after seeing some video.. after some personal considerations and thoughts..
with all my respect for the Frontier devs but.. i must say that the entrance should be increase a little in size.
Yeah. If an Anaconda can only barely make it without a new paint job, how the heck is a Panther Clipper going to fit?
Because they are roughly the same size?
As others have said I also expect a special docking screen with big ships going through the bay similar to the one we have when approaching the pad. This would help with aligning the ship properly. This is probably not implemented fully yet which is the reason that the commander in the videos are hitting the sides a lot.
Dunno which image you are looking at, but the one I see suggests the Panther is taller than the Anaconda?
I have to agree it is maybe 20% taller
Yeah the panther is a little bit taller. Which is still significantly bigger compared to docking port size. Your gonna need a autopilot computer to squeeze that thing in...