Please help me get my massive Anaconda into that tiny slot

Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Katnisseve said:
Nope.... Still the same. You can log off if stuck in mailslot and you'll be outside. Note.... That pertains to Xbox one
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Ah, lucky you. They changed it on the PC version a few months back. I had another instance of it a few days ago, so I can confirm it still takes you back to the dock on PC. Downside - no escape. Upside: If you undock, and then remember you needed to do something (e.g. check mission boards, sell cargo, etc.) before undocking, you can menu log/log back in, and you're back in the dock and can do what you forgot. :D
 

Jaffz

Jaffz
I have an Anaconda but I don't really like it

It's the only ship I have that has a docking computer

It works
 
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Xious

Xious
You get use to it after more practice but it is rather stupid to have such a small slot for 2 way traffic, when the game has such large ships like that lumbering clod, the Type 9.

Add it to the list I guess.:rolleyes:
 

Cageman

Cageman
As others have pointed out, when you fly it through the mailslot, it should almost feel like you are going to hit the top part of the mailslot with your forehead. The Anaconda has a big "belly"...

With that said, what you can do, is to get an Auto Docking Computer. Watch how it goes into the mailslot and remember it. Another cool thing the Auto Docking Computer teached me was how to actually meet a Beluga Liner, in the middle of the mailslot. :)

This is why I think it is a bit backwards that you need to get a Docking Computer module... Docking Computers should be built in in all ships, but can be turned on/off, just like Lights. It certanly will help CMDRs to see how it is done, and then when ready, they can turn it off and do it manually (faster). :)
 
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DukeIronHand

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Don't like the Anaconda?!
That "lumbering clod" the T9?!?
Ohhh...sometimes it might be good to be a Ganker. :)

And the "Slot Hog" Award goes to the Beluga, hands down.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
DR Smith said:
I've been playing ED for about a year and I thought I was a good pilot, at least with small and medium craft - but I recently bought an Anaconda and it's such a beast!!!
I keep getting stuck in the slot.
I've lost two of them by being shot up in a station just trying to leave and it's getting expensive with insurance around 19M a time.
OK Stop laughing now! [mad]. I'm OK flying in to a station but leaving it seems to be a different story. Even with the landing gear up, the ship only just fits through.
Using the external cams help - but I still make a mess of it 80% of the time.
I've left a station around 40 times and experience doesn't seem to be improving my performance. I must be doing something basically wrong.
Please give me some tips (people who post comments like "learn to fly" are not clever).
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It's easy. You're too low. Now every time you're flying in and know you're high enough, come back and read that.

If you want the easiest way to see how you should be doing it, just buy a docking computer, fit it, let it fly you through the slot so you can see how it should be done, then sell it. What the docking computer will reveal though is that you were too low. :D

Re-read and I see you can fly in OK but have trouble flying out? OK the docking computer won't help. What you're doing wrong though is that you're too low. I'm being serious here, just fly higher. All you need to do is concentrate on making sure you're definitely going to scrape your head on the underside of the slot, then move it down about an eighth of an inch and you're golden.
 
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Andrej

Andrej
In my opinion, best way to learn how dock/undock with Anaconda is smuggling, you ether learn how do it right, or go bankrupt :)

Keep in mind, that Anaconda really long ship, you must feel it size.
 

Kneejo

Kneejo
DWorth said:
Vaseline, that's what you need. :D

I have trouble with this. The Anaconda's upper hull actually slopes down towards the nose slightly. This does odd things to your perspective since you think you're flying level, but actually you're slightly nose-up and climbing, and then you hit the top of the slot. Just rely on your instruments instead.
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go into options and turn on the mouse widget.. it represents the centerline from the flightdeck's perspective.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
When I got my first Anaconda I kept bashing and scraping when exiting the station. Asking for help on here produced more "GIT GUD", insults and suchlike than anything useful. If someone had told me about only using vertical thrusters and had told me about the station "centre marker" (like in my earlier post) I would have saved a lot of bumping, boring and trespass warnings - luckily I never got stuck and blown up but that must have been more luck than judgement.

I think it a shame that the info about the station centre marker isn't in the manual. Maybe it is thought to be too obvious but it took me ages to twig to it.
 

Valethar

Valethar
I never seem to have any trouble getting my Python in the slot. Maybe you just need to learn how to control your snake? :rolleyes:
 

Soothsayer

Soothsayer
Just boost into the upper grate at a diagonal angle and brute force your way out, like I do. Also, when docking, crash into the flight control tower -- it'll instantly stop your ship and make docking a fast and easy breeze, since it also bounces your ship back toward the center of the landing pad.
 

MarkAusten

MarkAusten
Xious said:
You get use to it after more practice but it is rather stupid to have such a small slot for 2 way traffic, when the game has such large ships like that lumbering clod, the Type 9.

Add it to the list I guess.:rolleyes:
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There was a post recently with pictures that showed that the slot was not that small for an Anaconda, quite interesting.
 
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