From wich side so you enter the slot ?

From wich side you enter the mail slot ?

  • from the right

    Votes: 45 37.8%
  • from the left

    Votes: 8 6.7%
  • I never notice which side I'm on, to busy dodging all those slowpokes while i0m boosting inside !

    Votes: 66 55.5%

  • Total voters
    119
  • Poll closed .
If there's players on the scanner then I stick to the green side, but mostly I dock wherever I please.
 
little info about green and red fluff.


Did you know that originally FD made the Green and Red lights for colourblind people?

Most of the community though acknowledged them as green for entry/exit of ships

:)
 
Having been in the US Coast Guard for 7 years I always thought red, right, returning was an international thing. Turns out that half the world goes the other way, just like lefthand/righthand driving. Seeing as this game/sim is made in the UK, the red, right, returning thing is exactly opposite. If it was based on maritime rules we'd enter on the green and leave on the red but it's easier to remember to enter and leave on the green side.
In maritime law all green bouys to starboard and pass to the right. Ah hem, except for USA where they do it different to everyone else.
 
I didn't even notice this was a thing till I read this thread.

I'm normally trying to aim for the center of the opening, too afraid that I'm going to hit one of the sides as I enter.

Sideways in an anaconda at 2m/s because that's just how I roll. How to make friends and influence people.

I would love to see this happen.
 
Having been in the US Coast Guard for 7 years I always thought red, right, returning was an international thing. Turns out that half the world goes the other way, just like lefthand/righthand driving. Seeing as this game/sim is made in the UK, the red, right, returning thing is exactly opposite. If it was based on maritime rules we'd enter on the green and leave on the red but it's easier to remember to enter and leave on the green side.

In maritime law all green bouys to starboard and pass to the right. Ah hem, except for USA where they do it different to everyone else.

I was told during my navigation studies that the whole world used the same buoyage system until the second world war when the US switched theirs so that any invading Japanese ships would run aground. They just never put it back afterwards.
 
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On the green light side what ever my orientation is. And that is the side the NPCs mostly use.

I say mostly, as today I witnessed first time an NPC leaving a station from red light side (without this poll I most probably would have not paid any attention to this, now I was like "???" :). However, immediately he exited the slot a fed started to tail him, for which the NPC responded "Is there a problem officer?", no seen reaction from the fed. I have never seen this before. So I am guessing that the feds outside the station are monitoring also that you are following the rules, and if you want to avoid fed scans you should use the green light side or else you will get feds attention. If this is true I am not surprised if speeding has the same result.

I tested it during my Vennik runs intentionally going in and leaving out on the red side, but my samples are too small to get any reliable result. I could not check my six to see if this behaviour draw any attention of feds. Scans happened only on red side though.
 
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I don't enter the station.

The station maneuvers it'self around me.

Is that you chuck?

I have to add that recently while I've been getting nostalgic in a Viper 3 and I've taken to going in green lights to my belly and getting as low to the edge as possible, not had to attempt it vs a cutter yet hough would it fit?
 
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