Before i throw this game away......

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I don't get this place sometimes:

"I need help, I have a hard time landing on a pad"

responses:

1. Get better at it (stroke of genius there)
2. Get a docking computer (for a ship that has no slots)
3. Keep trying (as if the OP asked for a pep talk)
4. Docking is easy (world of support there)
5. Some people actually offering help (yay humanity)

When the OP has literally just started playing and his first post on the forum is complaining about a standard mechanic in the game, throwing around words like "stupid", demanding that a change is made to the core game, "Seriously, if this does not improve", or he will return the game. I am surprised he didn't get much more flaming.
 
Before you uninstall and burn your joystick OP , could you be a bit more specific with the trouble your having on landing. Things like....

1. Your input method (Hotas? , keys + mouse? , joystick and keys?). Have you engaged your landing gear?.

2. Where are you trying to land? (Outposts? Starport? Planetside?). There is a directional bias on landing pads, if you try to land while turned the wrong way round it wont dock. Also when you enter through mailslots your radar icon on left shows a dot to your pad.

3. What is it specifically your having the problem with?.

Without knowing atleast some of these i cant help OP but to say startup the training sessions and simply practice after fine adjusting your controls to suit your playstyle.
 
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When the OP has literally just started playing and his first post on the forum is complaining about a standard mechanic in the game, throwing around words like "stupid", demanding that a change is made to the core game, "Seriously, if this does not improve", or he will return the game. I am surprised he didn't get much more flaming.

Obviously he's interested in the game else he wouldn't have registered here to discuss it. I read the OP and didn't have any advice for him, but didn't feel the need to flame or offer an attitude adjustment.

But I digress.
 
I don't get this place sometimes:

"I need help, I have a hard time landing on a pad"

responses:

1. Get better at it (stroke of genius there)
2. Get a docking computer (for a ship that has no slots)
3. Keep trying (as if the OP asked for a pep talk)
4. Docking is easy (world of support there)
5. Some people actually offering help (yay humanity)

If you've only just read that post, you may want to bear in mind that it was considerably longer and more ranty before it was edited by someone.
 
Are there any one of you who actually had problems landing tha craft on a landing pad.
I've been trying to get, sigh, the sidewinder from station into deep space, no problem there, finding my destination, also after a few tries, no problem, getting to a station works only with lock, sadly I tried this without lock several times until i figured that out.
In the eighties i played also Elite, and the landing was then a terrible thing, mastering it with analog joysticks, but now it seems the technique has not improved. Come on, this is almost 4 decades ago, and we still use this stupid not automated control to land? and if time runs out, the fines are bigger than your wallet. !!!!!!

Seriously, if this does not improve, because i am no robot, then i return this<Ahem> game!
The first thing I bought was a DC (Docking Computer) but just recently I put my DC in storage as I needed the slot. To answer your question, if you are like me then it's tense no matter how many times you land. But I am getting better with practice. So don't fret too much as you will get the hang of it with time and practice. Just remember go slow, nestle the ball into the basket ...then stop when it turns blue and slowly descend .... too fast and you might bounce to the side. If so, do not panic and just scoot over a bit and try again.

Chief
 
In my case, I think it can help to have experience in other types of 'flying' sims. For example, I have flown real planes and helicopters, and logged thousands of hours flying high fidelity flight sims.

So yea, landing and flying in ED is pretty intuitive to me as well. Once I became familiar with the key mappings as to what controls what, I had no major issues. I did fumble around a couple of times attempting to land backwards at outposts, until I saw the arrows on the thrust deflector panels.

As for the rest of the game being intuitive? Hardly. If it were, there would not exist 3rd party websites, vids (none of which I've watched), and other props just to figure out how to accomplish something in this game. My discovering the forums here was probably the single biggest thing that kept me from throwing this game in the trash about a month after I received it as a gift at Christmas.

And before someone brags about the steep the learning curve and what an acomplishment it is to master, yadda, yadda, yadda... I managed to become an expert at flying and mastering the various weapons delivery systems in Falcon 4.0. The F-16 simulator who's manual came in a 3-ring binder and is inches thick. Anyone remember that one?

Remember it? I still have the CD ROM somewhere!
 
I don't get this place sometimes:

"I need help, I have a hard time landing on a pad"

responses:

1. Get better at it (stroke of genius there)
2. Get a docking computer (for a ship that has no slots)
3. Keep trying (as if the OP asked for a pep talk)
4. Docking is easy (world of support there)
5. Some people actually offering help (yay humanity)

Yeah, sadly many seem incapable of accepting that there are multiple solutions to the same issue, all equally as valid. OP, I'd just like to point out that, as this thread bears out, there are ups and downs to a community. That said, Elite has one of the better communities on average of any I have been involved with over my several decades online. Pick a solution that seems to work for you and give it a shot. :)

And, for the record, whether you're using a game controller, a HOTAS, or mouse/KB, switching to another control scheme is a pain at first. When I first bought the game, I used my XBox 360 "for Windows" controller. Docking took some getting used to, but I managed OK via the tutorial. Then I got a HOTAS and had to relearn a fair bit, but the end result was very good for me since I had plenty of controls available at hand to map. Then my HOTAS died (getting a replacement; should be here any day now) and I had to go back to the Xbox 360 controller for a while. Honestly, that last switch was more difficult than anything else because I had to relearn pretty much every single control! Now I'm flying with ease on it again and I'd bet I'll have to re-relearn it all in a day or so.

Most of all, try to have fun! Even when the game's frustrating, you can almost always find a way to overcome that aspect of it. Barring an odd bug or something, that is.
 
I will summarize my story, I have 42 rebuys.

I must have blown up in my sidewinder 35 times many of these disagreements with land pads when I started playing.

It was hell.

[alien]
 
Guess you can all wipe the foam off your mouth. Mr. Killer_01 seems to have left the boat already. One post and then nothing. I smell trollollo...

It's all the same to me. I've already been radicalized. ;)

And good riddance.
 
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The start of the game is one of the best bits. Learning all the keys, training your muscles to fly the ship (just like a real pilot does in an aircraft), learning the techniques is great. Setting up the controls how you like it, etc.

If you are using a Mouse/Keyboard, I would suggest though that playing with a joystick improves the reality of the experience and lowers the learning curve significantly. After all you would not fly a airplane with a mouse and keyboard, would you?
 
Landing is one of the easier challenges. Just point at the right direction.
Wait until you meet your first superpimped NPC with resistances and bulletsponge all over. Fight for 15 minutes. Collect 2.000 cr.
 
It is like driving a car, you never think you will get the hang of it, but with practice you do, and that is the key, practice. I spent months adopting a Barnes Wallis approach to landing, bouncing all over the place, then gradually it clicked and now I win awards for my landings....
 
Are there any one of you who actually had problems landing tha craft on a landing pad.
I've been trying to get, sigh, the sidewinder from station into deep space, no problem there, finding my destination, also after a few tries, no problem, getting to a station works only with lock, sadly I tried this without lock several times until i figured that out.
In the eighties i played also Elite, and the landing was then a terrible thing, mastering it with analog joysticks, but now it seems the technique has not improved. Come on, this is almost 4 decades ago, and we still use this stupid not automated control to land? and if time runs out, the fines are bigger than your wallet. !!!!!!

Seriously, if this does not improve, because i am no robot, then i return this<Ahem> game!
Op, if you are using a PC and in the Europe region, send me a PM with your CMDR name and a friend request in game and I will help you out. (CMDR Name is Heater)
We all get frustrated with Elite from time to time. (just look at the forums :) )
 
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I don't get this place sometimes:

"I need help, I have a hard time landing on a pad"

responses:

1. Get better at it (stroke of genius there)
2. Get a docking computer (for a ship that has no slots)
3. Keep trying (as if the OP asked for a pep talk)
4. Docking is easy (world of support there)
5. Some people actually offering help (yay humanity)

How to get help:
Ask politely.

How to get the responses above:
Threaten to throw the game away because it's obviously garbage. Assume that docking is actually impossible because if you can't do it nobody can.

Yes, this place is weird sometimes.
 
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