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Beluga are too big or airlocks are too small, please fix.
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Thanks...I appreciate the info. At least now I don't have to get stressed out every time I want to go to a starbase. Getting wedged though nearly killed me. I usually always have a rebuy, but the station had some A-type parts I wanted. I'll have to practice because as you say..I was going in fine then you just grind to a stop, wedged.
Thanks for the help, it wouldn't hurt if the devs could scale down the ship a tad or scale up the opening. I'm sure it's not rocket science. Happy New Year.
Thanks for the help, it wouldn't hurt if the devs could scale down the ship a tad or scale up the opening. I'm sure it's not rocket science. Happy New Year.
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I still believe they should scale down the beluga a tad....it would avoid these things altogether. The orca was awesome, I had high expectation of the beluga and it's great, just a funny shape and I'm phobic now of trying to dock again in a starport. I'll just make sure I have the rebuy always...
I still believe they should scale down the beluga a tad....it would avoid these things altogether. The orca was awesome, I had high expectation of the beluga and it's great, just a funny shape and I'm phobic now of trying to dock again in a starport. I'll just make sure I have the rebuy always...
It's the bloody big, ugly and utterly pointless wings. Bad, bad design.
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100% this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
thanks
Never used a docking computer....thought they were for noobs only, but maybe I am one.
Never used a docking computer....thought they were for noobs only, but maybe I am one.
Thanks guys
I'm finding the elite community really helpful and friendly, thanks guys. I was a long term player of eve-online and I still feel the need to bathe in chlorine and scrub down with steel wool every once in a while, and that was only dealing with their staff.
I'm finding the elite community really helpful and friendly, thanks guys. I was a long term player of eve-online and I still feel the need to bathe in chlorine and scrub down with steel wool every once in a while, and that was only dealing with their staff.
I suppose the best way to get into cold water is to jump straight in. Here goes nuttin'
Yaffle
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This is a really good idea. You should get a feel for the positioning relative to the toast rack on the way in, that will help on the way out too.
I don't even know wqhat a docking computer does...does it do the entire docking process? Get me through the airlock on autopilot? I can do that if its the case.
Yaffle
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Yes. When outside request docking, throttle to zero. It will take you through the slot, then deploy landing gear and land on the correct pad. Note how the ship is pitched, and the level it has. You should be able to copy it.
Just note, if you keep the DC turn it off in systems if you manually dock; otherwise when you throttle zero during docking it will take over.
I think to avoid stress in my gaming life I will go back to the orca. The leftover will buy me a nice combat ship...I'll just have to run a 6 and 5 luxury cabin only. I don't understand why it has to be different than every other ship I've tried but the orca will be fine. People can lose a whole shoot load getting wedged when it is not stated anywhere. A player I encountered said something about scraping by, I guess I can enjoy the humour now. Thanks anyways guys, thread closed.
You can also use the three red lights on the structure on the far end of the docking bay to get the alignment right. It's a little trick that helped me a lot with docking pretty much all the big ships I've flown so far. I'm not in the bubble at the moment, but once I get back I'm going to write it down in detail since it is quite useful.
The wings and fins on the Beluga are surprisingly huge, and when looked at in comparison to other ships it's the only one that really struggles to get lined up for the mail slot...
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Granted, they are huge. But I have only gotten stuck once in my Beluga when an NPC Type 7 stopped dead in the middle of the mailslot and i couldn't stop in time to avoid a collision. It's really just a matter of practice. I even managed to get in or out when smaller vessels up to ASPX passed the slot in the opposite direction - just by a well-timed slight roll. You just need to know where on your ship those fins are. With some practice it really is no big deal - and the aforementioned lights make approaches into almost a cakewalk. Just avoid rushing things and avoid maneuvers that require a lot of directional thrusts such as hard turns etc.
I made a post about this today. I got the impression everyone is resigned in that the developer wont fix it. How hard could it be to increase the scale of a station by 1.01% or a ship to 99% of it's size to fix the issue rather than basically ignoring it? It's broken and a menace to any pilot not knowing it's fault. Basically a Corvair 'unsafe to drive at any speed', to add some levity. I decided to sell it as I got wedged twice not knowing, other than a cryptic phrase about 'scraping by' by a player in-game. Now I understand the humor as I got wedged twice and barely got out before the station chewed my 130 mill boat to dust. I sold it, with regret and went back to the orca, lost money and time in the process, wish I knew. Anyways, whatever, I've found their help only direct you to others.
I flew in straight as an arrow both times...I had no idea you had to dip down or whatever. It should be ficxeed or announced, as I'ma new player.
Frankly all you need to do is look at where the cockpit is. In the beluga it is at the very front and pretty low down - meaning you kinda need to "crawl" through the mailslot. On the anaconda on the other hand it is on the top and fairly far back, meaning on the correct alignment you instinctively watch your head as you pass through the slot.
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