destroyed while AUTO DOCKING

GLd Lord Dover

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The last two times that I have been DESTROYED was while AUTO DOCKING at a PLANETARY SETTLEMENT that granted me permission.
Both times I was fired upon only when 2m or less from touching down on the landing pad.
Please disable the ability to target ships once they have initiated AUTO DOCK, as there is no defense against this cowardly act.
 

Brimston

Brimston
My suggestion would be that any ship in autodock should be considered part of the station, so still targetable, but station autodefenses should fire on sight on any offense (same as if you fire at any damageable building)
 

varonica

varonica
GLd Lord Dover said:
Please disable the ability to target ships once they have initiated AUTO DOCK, as there is no defense against this cowardly act.
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Of course there is, the same as when you are landing yourself and get fired on, just hit full thrust and get out of there, you can take over from autodock any time you want. The question here is, who is shooting at you, if it's other players who are shooting you when you are landing then that's just part of the game, a risk you take, if it's the base defenses that would seem strange.
 

VerticalBlank

VerticalBlank
I did some tests. When in auto-dock, you cannot pop a heat sink nor can you engage silent running. This also strikes me as how it should be. As noted, at any point you can turn off auto-dock with any kind of control input.

Auto-dock serves as (a) training wheels for new commanders and (b) a convenience for experienced commanders. It isn't intended as an "I win" button for docking when: wanted, smuggling goods or passengers, under PvP fire, etc, because that would obviate a huge part of the gameplay.
 

RBHM Spoons

RBHM Spoons
Or just.... Idk.... Git gud at flying without one, rather than relying on aids to dock.
Can't exactly fly to your full potential of the ship if you're hindered as such by aids like super cruise assist or a DC.

Made me sick seeing a full fledged PVP Fer-de-Lance with a Advanced Docking Computer.
 

SergMx

SergMx
varonica said:
Just to add this, what you are asking for is an advantage over players who don't use autodock, they have the same risk but they wouldn't be indestructible as they come in to land, this is my principal objection to the suggestion, you can't give some players an automatic advantage over others.
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Actually, by installing the computer you sacrifice a slot in which you could put something useful or additional protection.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
EXE Sas ser said:
Or just.... Idk.... Git gud at flying without one, rather than relying on aids to dock.
Can't exactly fly to your full potential of the ship if you're hindered as such by aids like super cruise assist or a DC.

Made me sick seeing a full fledged PVP Fer-de-Lance with a Advanced Docking Computer.
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Crumbs, why are you so worried about how other people fly their ships? I guess you'd love my FdL with both ADC and SCA. Admittedly it's for fun rather than PvP, with it's 5 overcharged gimbal multicannons.
 

varonica

varonica
VerticalBlank said:
You are not indestructible while docking.
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The OP wants ships to be untargettable while autodocking, it has the effect of making it almost indestructible. Can't shoot at it from the ground, can't target it from the air, of course there are ways around it that would be utilised by gankers, and then there will be demands for that to be prevented, leading to ships that can't be shot. The OP of course also forgets you don't have to target anything to actually hit it with dumbfires or RPG.

But whatever happens, it would be a huge advantage to the person using autodock over a player landing normally, and that's the issue.
 

SergMx

SergMx
varonica said:
The OP wants ships to be untargettable while autodocking, it has the effect of making it almost indestructible. Can't shoot at it from the ground, can't target it from the air, of course there are ways around it that would be utilised by gankers, and then there will be demands for that to be prevented, leading to ships that can't be shot. The OP of course also forgets you don't have to target anything to actually hit it with dumbfires or RPG.

But whatever happens, it would be a huge advantage to the person using autodock over a player landing normally, and that's the issue.
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So? Autodoc is the off control at 7500 from the station. It won't fire itself either. I think such a function should have been done from the beginning.
There is a possibility that it will not work with a person with a bad reputation ...
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
GLd Lord Dover said:
The last two times that I have been DESTROYED was while AUTO DOCKING at a PLANETARY SETTLEMENT that granted me permission.
Both times I was fired upon only when 2m or less from touching down on the landing pad.
Please disable the ability to target ships once they have initiated AUTO DOCK, as there is no defense against this cowardly act.
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why? imo auto dock already grants you a licence to automatically have priority over anything and not get fined which to me is unfair... but making invincible? ...... imo actually manually playing the game should always be the optimal way to play it and giving players.who choose. to hand the ship over to the computer invincibility would be a disaster.

ships firing on clean players.who are docking whether manually our automatically should absolutely get protection from the station.... but not a cloak of.invincibility.

edit. in the original design ships which had not deployed to the protection of the hanger were initially also meant to be damageable.... I think that would have been better as well myself.
 
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