The Docking Computer thread.
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Can't you just increase your throttle again to take back over? I've never tried, but I've always assumed that would work...
Just accelerate, do your smuggling run as normal when you get inside the letterbox throttle to zero and let the do take over
This with Christmas bells on!
In the old Elite, i would only use the docking computer when i needed a cup of char, I could hear the blue danube from the kitchen which would stop automatically when my Cobra entered the space station, i'de return to the view of my ship's inventory with my hot cuppa, a welcome break from hours spent on a C64,
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another old timer
Well, to each their own. If I had a 'conda I'd use it, but only because the 'conda just barely fits through the slot. But for every ship I've flown, which is all of them except the fed military crafts or the liners, I have no problem docking. Granted, I'm an old timer who started out with Elite Plus with a keyboard only and now have a HOTAS for ED, but I have found with docking, like most other things, the more you do it, the easier it gets.
Thanks for the video 
it's about taking a few minutes to chill while listening to the music... I agree it's slow, but that's the point! You don't always want to be in the fast lane... Try cruising in a long barge at 4mph on a canal for a few days. You'll learn to enjoy going slow after a few days mental adjustment 
same applies here.
it's about taking a few minutes to chill while listening to the music... I agree it's slow, but that's the point! You don't always want to be in the fast lane... Try cruising in a long barge at 4mph on a canal for a few days. You'll learn to enjoy going slow after a few days mental adjustment same applies here.I did, on Tuesday and Thursday. My Mum has her own narrow boat (up in the West Midlands), and we went out to Tipton.
I do have a SDC on my Anaconda, but I only use it for the last stage of docking (once I enter the mail slot I throttle back). It does make things easier.
Laughing out loud! That was a dead funny description! Loved it!
Good lord it takes and absolute age for it to dock. It's like its being flown by a drunken Ja-Ja Binks wearing boxing gloves and roller skates!
I'm sure some judicious tweaking will be forthcoming!
One thing I noticed is when dc kicks in you cannot enter silent running or deploy heat sink, no goo if being scanned is an issue
There's a note about that - that the DC blocks the silent running key is considered a bug. (Worse, you *can't turn it off* after the DC kicks in. So if you flew in at speed to evade scanning, and then slow down for the last bit so the DC handles the final approach, you can easily overheat. Always remember to turn of silent running before slowing down!)
It's not a bug, it's more an issue of the actual state of development. The DC is a bit quick an dirty implemented as it simply turns your ship into an AI ship while docking (when throttle < n%). As a side effect the player has no control about any systems of the ship meanwhile. You can only throttle up for a second, turn SR of, an then back down to reactivate the DC.
Um, of course it does, this is what it is designed to do. You buy it because you want it to handle docking for you. For it to do so, you must relinquish control of your ship... You can get control back by throttling up (as you suggest). I don't see this as quick and dirty, to me this is one of the complete parts of the game!
I wish it was a hard mount rather than a module... I hate losing a space to it like that.
I agree, it makes no sense at all to be a physical module. It's an extra bit of software in the flight computer. There is no logical reason for it to be a physical thing taking space.