Not necessarily; it will have another line called "docking access" that says "none," "all," "friends and squadron," etc. It is a separate setting from allowing/prohibiting notorious commanders. You will only be able to dock if it says "all" (unless you are friends with the owner and it is open to friends, obviously).
Cant Dock at Carriers Suddenly?
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Yeah actually I noticed those as well and they both say All concerning docking, weird huh......
In all my time being a gamer with a countless number of games the only 2 that I have had hard core issues with are a game company also in the britain known as slitherine and frontier also british, weird......havent had any issues with any other country or their games, really odd.......
In all my time being a gamer with a countless number of games the only 2 that I have had hard core issues with are a game company also in the britain known as slitherine and frontier also british, weird......havent had any issues with any other country or their games, really odd.......
Sounds like a bug for sure. I can't test right now, but I'll check later. I docked at a carrier yesterday, but it was my own...
You opened a customer support ticket for the carrier purchasing issue, IIRC. Maybe when they look at that they will find what is going on with this...
Well its either on purpose or just some weird coincidence, I will give it another week but these guys dont seem to communicate nor do anything even well after complaint reports, there is a time when you just move on and perhaps that time is in order, cant seem to fix the issues nor get them fixed......so idk......too bad as it was a pretty neat game too.....or maybe they are just filtering out those they dont want......
No I am not acting like anything, I am simply going by the info that I have that is available, its either a really bad coincidence or its being done purposely..... However now I would like to think that its just a really bad coincidence well I hope right as I have no reason really to suspect of the other...... The only 2 game companies that I have ever had issues like this bad are well this company and a company also located in britain called slitherine......Now the other information is that so far this company has never responded to anything which is not good but I can understand that they are probably overwhelmed with all of the other myriads of complaints......
Every so often I'm unable to set down on a FC. Issue reported here: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/73519
Not sure if this is the same problem as the OP describes, tho.
Not sure if this is the same problem as the OP describes, tho.
Also, one thing to note, is the FC owner's behavior, esp if they are colonizing a system. Alot of FC Owners are using their carriers as staging areas to drop off goods, and setting cheap buy and sell orders because that is faster to drop stuff off, or load up their haulers than using the cargo transfer. And as a result, so they won't get robbed while they've ostensibly set their carrier sell orders to extremely cheap, they've locked down their carriers to friends only, or even solo.
the tl;dr is: they are using their carrier markets as shopping lists, and as such don't want to get robbed trying to do their builds.
Are the carriers you're trying to land at, either AT or near the primary star? Or at or near a construction project?
the tl;dr is: they are using their carrier markets as shopping lists, and as such don't want to get robbed trying to do their builds.
Are the carriers you're trying to land at, either AT or near the primary star? Or at or near a construction project?
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I have full control of the fleet carriers.
For my part, I've tried:
- At construction sites
- At asteroid belts
- At planets
Carriers also lock down prior to jumping, and jumping has been buggy lately. That could be causing additional issues. I've never tried docking at a carrier that was waiting out an hour-long delay to jump, so I don't know what that looks like.
Oh so you're meaning, landing at your own carriers. Ok, that is definitely a bug then. I thought the OP was meaning, he can't land on other people's FCs.
Good points guys, yeah the fc's are other cmdr's private carriers that a short time before I was able to land on a majority of them and only a few were greyed out, now all of them are greyed out and equally strange I cant purchase my fc, lol......Its just weird is all, I guess its just an overload in everything on the servers and such...... So hopefully it will get fixed soon, otherwise I will just keep grinding away out in the middle of nowhere, ugh, I like the selfdestruct button tho, grinding can certainly invoke that, lol.....
Yup, happened to my friend this week. I had to switch it to friends, otherwise they couldn't dock. It's not all the time, just sometimes.
It's just a bog-standard Elite bug. It doesn't always happen to her. Just sometimes. The only workaround (that isn't making it open to all to dock) is setting it to friends. But I always put it back to squadron after, and she can dock most of the time with no issues. And this is my carrier, so this isn't some outlying problem (I have no restrictions except "Squadron only"). This is when I'm online or not online, neither makes a difference (either way, working or not). It's seemingly random.
I added my contribution to this, as a carrier owner who witnesses a squadron friend attempt to land who cannot, for no apparent reason. I don't know if it's the same issue, though. But it may be related in some way.
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