dock numbers as approach/alignment indicators

[Morphemes]

They're the first thing you see, so it'd be nice if the numbers above the docks always corresponded with the orientation your ship needs to be in. So, if the numbers aren't backwards on your approach then you know you're aligned with the dock. It's always this way inside stations, but then you do a surface landing or an external station landing & it's a crapshoot. Maybe I'm overlooking some other indicator [noob] but it still doesn't make sense that sometimes the numbers align with the proper approach orientation & sometimes they don't. You'd think something like that would be consistent.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'd like this too.

For outposts and planetary settlements, especially.

It would be nice if the docking hologram on the pad also had chevrons on the sides, to indicate which way to align your ship if you approach from a 90° angle, when you can't see pad the number at all.

 

[Falco]

Since this is a turntable landing pad... I wonder why you can't just dock backwards in the first place.

 

[FreezeFIN]

Have you seen ID4? That's why

 

[Falco]

Have you seen ID4? That's why

I have not. Nor do I know what that is. And I don't know what me seeing or not seeing something called ID4 has to do with it not making sense to be able to land on a pad backwards as it can turn.

 

[FreezeFIN]

Movie Independence Day. You always have to face the flight control tower, in case you need to troll the aliens, have a cigar and fire the missile.

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Hope this helps

 

[Falco]

Hope this helps

It doesn't. It's still perfectly feasible to land any way you want on a pad that can turn around.

 

[Lestat]

Well on ground stations landing pads Number always face the center of the station. Use the compass to locate the landing pad number it not really hard.

 

[spooky558]

This would be a great idea. I'm currently flying to an outpost, having requested docking, and 90% of the time I'm having to rotate my ship over the pad before I can land.

Chevrons would be good, even if it was lights actually on the landing pad, doesn't necessarily need to be a hologram. Just give us a clue, especially when the outpost is in the shadow of a planet and it's pitch black.