Auto Launch killed me!
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Learn from the mistakes of others; your insurance money will never last long enough to make them all yourself.
Todays lesson: Don't go AFK while the ADC is in control of your ship. It is a devious little <insert favourite swear word here>, and will do it's damndest to kill you if it thinks it can get away with it.
Todays lesson: Don't go AFK while the ADC is in control of your ship. It is a devious little <insert favourite swear word here>, and will do it's damndest to kill you if it thinks it can get away with it.
The vette is by far the easiest of the big three ships to get out of a station, just bin the thing.
Hey nothing wrong with the Corvette, least you don't need to go to the neighbouring system just to turn around lol
Hah I meant bin the auto launch not the 'vette, it's a great ship. Cutter for basking, Corvette for business.
What an asinine statement. So real pilots don't use any automated functions huh!
Of course you are right, the OP definitely isn't a real spaceship Commander ………
Hi dunrankin 
I use auto launch, mainly on the large ships (Cutter, Type 10, Beluga etc.). I can do it manually but it's a squeeze sometimes. One of the other reasons is whilst in auto launch I can take my time scanning other ships in the area for data.
For some reasons though, I've never been able to figure out, the game doesn't always pick out the setting for my joystick speed control, usually when I've just booted up the game and launch either manually or auto. As soon as I realize the ship is moving forward or backward without my control I hit 'x' on the keyboard. This will bring the ship to a stop, then I can use the speed control as normal, or leave the ship to exit the station on auto. Then throughout the game the auto launch functions pretty much 100%.
I must state though I never leave the game whilst the auto docking / auto launch is in play. Not strictly true for auto docking, when I set the ship for auto docking I can leave the game (that function) and for example, look at the system map or galactic map whilst the ship is docking.
Sometimes on auto launch there's been so many ships leaving or entering the station that the timer has nearly run out, so I've had to cancel the function and manually leave the station myself. Another thing to watch out for when auto docking or auto launch is if you leave the game to say go to the loo, or get up to make some tea etc. you can inadvertently brush against the throttle control without realizing it (been there done that) with the resulting obvious conclusions.
My advice is using these auto functions is it's 99% okay...it's that 1% you've got to watch out for, so it's best to be there playing the game while these two functions are in operation.
Jack
I use auto launch, mainly on the large ships (Cutter, Type 10, Beluga etc.). I can do it manually but it's a squeeze sometimes. One of the other reasons is whilst in auto launch I can take my time scanning other ships in the area for data.
For some reasons though, I've never been able to figure out, the game doesn't always pick out the setting for my joystick speed control, usually when I've just booted up the game and launch either manually or auto. As soon as I realize the ship is moving forward or backward without my control I hit 'x' on the keyboard. This will bring the ship to a stop, then I can use the speed control as normal, or leave the ship to exit the station on auto. Then throughout the game the auto launch functions pretty much 100%.
I must state though I never leave the game whilst the auto docking / auto launch is in play. Not strictly true for auto docking, when I set the ship for auto docking I can leave the game (that function) and for example, look at the system map or galactic map whilst the ship is docking.
Sometimes on auto launch there's been so many ships leaving or entering the station that the timer has nearly run out, so I've had to cancel the function and manually leave the station myself. Another thing to watch out for when auto docking or auto launch is if you leave the game to say go to the loo, or get up to make some tea etc. you can inadvertently brush against the throttle control without realizing it (been there done that) with the resulting obvious conclusions.
My advice is using these auto functions is it's 99% okay...it's that 1% you've got to watch out for, so it's best to be there playing the game while these two functions are in operation.
Jack
Auto-launch (and docking) uses the same routines that NPCs use to launch and dock.
Once you stop seeing NPC wreckage littering the inside of any busy station, it's safe to use. But not just yet...
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/8412 seems to be the most confirmed bug reporting this issue, so adding confirmations to that might help - only eight to go...
Once you stop seeing NPC wreckage littering the inside of any busy station, it's safe to use. But not just yet...
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/8412 seems to be the most confirmed bug reporting this issue, so adding confirmations to that might help - only eight to go...
Let me correct that for you...
Todays lesson: Self inflicted, no sympathy. Don't ever use a ADC...that is all.
I simply don't understand why people use them. They take up a slot, they are slow...docking is one of the easiest and fastest things you can do in ED manually. Even the large ships in ED are easy to dock.
I use one, guess according to you I can't fly. But I am that good I don't have to fill every available slot in all my ships with HRP/MRP/SCB modules just to survive - I am 'GUD' enough not to need them
Docking big ships is about knowing where the cockpit is. On a Beluga, for instance its right at the very front at the very bottom (not in the huge black window), so you need to target yourself to the bottom of the slot. In the Annies you are way up high at the back so aim more near the top. Easy once you realise, and then you can turn the computer off.
Elite 1984 docking computer was fallable too
Elite 1984 docking computer was fallable too
Almost happened to me with my t9. Luckily I wasn't afk and get control back.
1 of 20 Autolaunches shreds my shields down to one ring or deactivates them, because the autolaunch leads the ship to much to the right and crashes me or get me stucked at the entrance.
Main thing about most of the raised issues is the there is no video evidence - there are several failure types that really need documenting so that fdev can fix them. Off the top of my head:
Mostly if you have shields then you will hear the ADC trying to kill you and can recover. You do have shields OP?
- Cutter trying to get into any Asteroid Base (that's a pretty reliable way to die)
- Some stations have large structures that the DC will dash you against
- Auto-launch largish ship - in holding pattern waiting on other ships will sometimes drive you into the station wall
- Some ships (Cutter?) will ram the station just below the slot when Auto-Launching (not seen that one much)
Mostly if you have shields then you will hear the ADC trying to kill you and can recover. You do have shields OP?
Damn I would get a replacement ADC then. The most I have every had half of one right go simply because I wanted to see how far it would go. Never had an instance of losing that much shield, I would have taken over control way before that!
My replacement is...deactivated auto launch.
I would have take over control, if I'd seen that would happen.
So it wasn't so much the ADC being bad it was you being inattentive!My replacement is...deactivated auto launch.
I would have take over control, if I'd seen that would happen.
I have an advanced docking controller on my mission runner krait mkii.
I find it very useful for saving me from making the effort of seeking out the pad location continuously when running a mass of missions.
It has done a couple of weird things, like ramming me into the wall to the right of the slot continuously trying to leave the station, but i was onhand to stop the matter. But 99. 9% of the time it has no issues at all.
I do not leave it totally unattended though, so it has never caused any deaths.
I find it very useful for saving me from making the effort of seeking out the pad location continuously when running a mass of missions.
It has done a couple of weird things, like ramming me into the wall to the right of the slot continuously trying to leave the station, but i was onhand to stop the matter. But 99. 9% of the time it has no issues at all.
I do not leave it totally unattended though, so it has never caused any deaths.