Autodock improvement for Orbital Construction site

[kepler68]

Right now autodock is especially lethal around construction sites. An easy fix could be to add a pathfinding node, similar to the one outside a coriolis/orbis airlock, above the site where there is a clear line to all landing pads. This will minimize getting caught on the lights, center pole, etc.

Current situation:

With pathfinding node:

 

[varonica]

Or you could just fly your ship in and land!

 

[kepler68]

Yeah sure lets just remove it completely instead

 

[Kira Goto]

Or you could just fly your ship in and land!

I would support this post... if hauling was more than A>B>A where you're occasionally bothered by a braindead pirate that can somehow manage to miss every shot fired at a T9 performing a simple evasive roll. Then again he was also flying an Asp Scout. Still...

... my current workaround is usually to just fly the ship until it has a clear line of sight to the pad, then most of the time it won't want to crash itself trying to go through a solid object.

 

[g0oglyeyes]

+1 for the masterpieces alone