What's the point of entering the hangar?

baskila

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I mean, we can do most things without entering the hangar. Is it really necessary?
Every time I want to check what outfitting options station offers I'm forced to look at this boring slow animation.
It's not even pretty. There's no surroundings or any other ships to look at. By staying on the surface I can at least look at stuff.
Can we just remove it completely please?
 

ithinkiam

ithinkiam
Presumably because in outfitting you can change the your ship completely or just its appearance which would need to be reflected in-game to other players.

There may not be a mechanic for doing that or at the very least would look very odd.

Plus, it frees up a landing pad.
 

Space Cowboy Blues

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baskila said:
I mean, we can do most things without entering the hangar. Is it really necessary?
Every time I want to check what outfitting options station offers I'm forced to look at this boring slow animation.
It's not even pretty. There's no surroundings or any other ships to look at. By staying on the surface I can at least look at stuff.
Can we just remove it completely please?
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Immersion.

You won't get maintenance on your car either if you just pull up to the gas pump.

Consider it a garage.

This might not be the right game for you, afraid to say.
 

Sterling MH

Banned
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To clear up the landing pads. Doesn't matter in Solo, but in any other mode, you will be camping the landing pad. When you're in the hangar, you're now in a different instance, meaning the pad is clear.

That is why you are made to enter the hangar.

Plus some of the time it's "needed". You're outfitting. You see the ship in the outfitting room.
 

FluffyBob

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Are you sure about this? I do not see any evidence that a pad is freed up or that a new instance is created. Certainly is not the case with outposts. Pad is not available to land on while a commander is in the hanger.
 

Sterling MH

Banned
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Kitfox said:
No, it doesn't.

The surface pad and the hanger are a singular unit. If you're in the hangar, the surface pad is unavailable to anyone else.
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It does. Going into the hangar *while you do it* doesn't. But once in then you can be swapped out and never know.

Makes no difference in Solo, but I still go inside the hangar if I don't know what I'm going to do next, just like I signal a turn even if the road is entirely empty, even of pedestrians to the side, because I then automatically signal and it doesn't matter if I miss someone who needs to know I'm taking that turning. Number of drivers who don't think that pedestrians would like to know if you're going to drive over them if they try to cross the sidestreet is disgusting...
 

EUS

EUS
Sterling MH said:
To clear up the landing pads. Doesn't matter in Solo, but in any other mode, you will be camping the landing pad. When you're in the hangar, you're now in a different instance, meaning the pad is clear.

That is why you are made to enter the hangar.

Plus some of the time it's "needed". You're outfitting. You see the ship in the outfitting room.
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Unless it changed in 3.3, this is false.
Robigo/Hutton lineups anyone?
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
Entering the hangar doesn't free up the pad, and doesn't send you into a different instance - people outside the hangar can see you on their scanner, people inside the hangar can likewise see others outside the hangar.

Also there is no gameplay benefit to entering the hangar. It might be a leftover from a time when Frontier hadn't decided to make docked ships invincible, or meant for future features (*ahem spacelegs*).
 

Sterling MH

Banned
S
EUS said:
Unless it changed in 3.3, this is false.
Robigo/Hutton lineups anyone?
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...rters-PLEASE-enter-hangar-as-soon-as-you-dock


New starters - PLEASE enter hangar as soon as you dock

Sharing this here because it only became obvious to me when I read it here on the forum during the beta, and seeing many threads about the docking queues which players may not realise they are causing:

If you remain on the surface, particularly when at outposts (i.e. external dock stations), and are playing in Open mode, you are preventing other players from docking there. If you spend 20 minutes browsing commodities etc (or taking a comfort break) then other players are forced to either wait for you, or switch into solo mode.

Please select "Enter Hangar" as soon as you land, then select "Starport Services" when you start to descend.
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I just simplified because I couldn't be bothered to drag that up from a search.
 

Sterling MH

Banned
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EUS said:
Who are you going to believe, that stranger, or me, a different stranger?
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Doens't matter. I answered the OP's question. Believe it or not. But whether you believe me or not won't change the fact that you do go into the hangar. So believe what you like.
 
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