Docking Control

[bootsam]

Space Traffic control should form a queue of people. Let you know where you are in the queue and provide a countdown as you move up the queue. Also people should automatically be taken to the hanger. Loiterers should be shot.

If I hear 'Docking Request Denied' one more time Ill attack the damned station.

 

[purecain]

just pulled an all nighter and was just calling it a day. when the landing pad and throttle set fire to the ship... sat with 2 friends and they are laughing their bits off... im proper hagged and alas it was all for naught... ahhh well I enjoyed myself right up until that bit.... im sure I can do in an hour or 3 of what I did in 11hours today. cant believe it though... you shouldn't be able to do what I just did... this is me moaning now... I overshot the landing pad by a tiny amount but the dead zones don't work with my hotas controller. there is literally 1mm of space to place the thrust so that its not shooting forwards or backwards... I can use the keyboard binds but I touched the thruster to slow down instead of the keyboard and the ship jumped to 150-450 reverse into the wall etc.... and the canopy bust open as I tried to correct the thrusters. aaaaaarrrrgggggghhhhhhh feel my pain.... :/ lol

 

[Thorbrandt]

sign!

Space Traffic control should form a queue of people. Let you know where you are in the queue and provide a countdown as you move up the queue. Also people should automatically be taken to the hanger. Loiterers should be shot.

If I hear 'Docking Request Denied' one more time Ill attack the damned station.

Perfect idea and just what I was thinking.
A few minutes ago I was sitting in front of one of these smaller stations with 8 other people waiting for two landing-pads getting available while more and more ships were arriving. I don't see a lot of reasons to keep it that frustrating.

• Force people to the hangar --- if ships always have to be turned around after starting from the docking pads the "time advantage" of being simply docked instead of being delivered to the hangar would be negligible.
• Give waiting ships slot numbers for their place in waiting queue and a waiting timer after requesting to dock... just in case moving ships to the hangar would solve the whole issue.

 

[Tosa]

Need to make a better docking call system

Space Traffic control should form a queue of people. Let you know where you are in the queue and provide a countdown as you move up the queue. Also people should automatically be taken to the hanger. Loiterers should be shot.

If I hear 'Docking Request Denied' one more time Ill attack the damned station.

I agree.

Yesterday I did stay outside a station in about 20 min, without get docking Granted, And I also did see people did come and leave all the time. some did get on the station before me. that is a pain.
It did any me so much that I did turn of the game. Did at got "docking request deiend" 500 times on 2 hours. that is to much.

So I would love to a a queue where the say, exs, "All the docking stations is full, you are number 3 in line, Pleas hold " or something like that, and when something do update, " You are now number 2 in line"

this would make the gameplay better, in stead of trying to get access for many hours......

 

[tutike]

Also reduce the time window for docking. 10 minutes is way too long to allow docking. Make it 3 or 5 mintues.

 

[Tosa]

Also reduce the time window for docking. 10 minutes is way too long to allow docking. Make it 3 or 5 mintues.

hehe, you only need at least 3 min to dock. but the thing I hate most, is people that dock at a station and go AFK. they take docking ports and make the wait longer. When I go AFK, I just stay outside the station or logoff so I dont make any long delays for other peoples.

 

[Icobacca]

My solution to the long queues of ships waiting to dock at stations is this:

I log off back to main menu.
Log into solo play.
Fly a little ways back to station.
Request docking & land.
Once in the hanger, log off & log back into open session.
no frustrations.

Only downside I see, if you were in a sessions with friends then you may well not be when you log back in after docking.

Happy Docking Commanders

 

[Tosa]

My solution to the long queues of ships waiting to dock at stations is this:

I log off back to main menu.
Log into solo play.
Fly a little ways back to station.
Request docking & land.
Once in the hanger, log off & log back into open session.
no frustrations.

Only downside I see, if you were in a sessions with friends then you may well not be when you log back in after docking.

Happy Docking Commanders

well it works, But as I have said earlier. you lose half of the point of having a MMO if you log off to singelplayer to dock or do things.

 

[Earth2Mars]

Ah, I was just about to post something about this.

Specifically for outposts. Yes, Put a Dock Queue. Instead of docking denied, place a request in a queue and let it count down as ships leave. (it is the 34th century, we can have this) - simply automatic request when reaching top of queue.
also, more immersion would be if you don't place queues for anarchy systems, since they don't follow a law or something like that.

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well it works, But as I have said earlier. you lose half of the point of having a MMO if you log off to singelplayer to dock or do things.

For me personally, I wouldn't do that. floating waiting for my request to go though is part of the immersion and fun. I see it as a real world more than a game and to obtain numbers by logging off to reset the instance.