Docking menu: auto-highlight station services please?

[sleoj]

This suggestion comes from something that I've made a mistake on a few times already. After docking at a station, the docking menu consisting of "station services", "enter hanger", and "launch". I can't decide how it figures what should be initially highlighted, but several times it's been "launch" and being in a hurry and all I accidentally invoked it. Cue big rigamarole of leaving, permission, re-entry...

It'd be nice for "station services" to be the default. It's a more likely choice anyway and avoids a face-palming waste of time due to carelessness...or haste. Good thing my canopy wasn't breached and me down to seconds of O2 on a platform for accidental relaunch.

 

[Loose Morals]

"groan" oh yes please. i often add spice to the game by chaining missions that require me to very quickly turn over stations. keeps things intresting. but i also have been caught out by the random launch instead of station services thing. wouldn't mind if there was a decernable way to predict which. just as long as its not random..

 

[Rhaedas]

There must be something in your procedure that throws it off. I have the whole launch sequence automated with VA, and never have a problem with it choosing the wrong one, so mine always starts at the top. I can count maybe two or three times it has glitched, and that was due to station lag, not positioning of the menu. So run through how you're docking and entering the station menu, because it remembers mine.

 

[MirageGuardian]

I never accidentally launched but that does happen for me quite often actually... having the launch highlighted.
If they could just make the launch like a double tap to confirm it would be better or something like that.

 

[PhaLynX]

I'm learning after several unintended 'launches' to not be as quick with the menus. I don't think it is something the player does as far as launch procedures, or landing. Maybe though.

 

[Slippery Jim DiGriz]

Docking menu: auto-highlight station services please? - could be this

I'm learning after several unintended 'launches' to not be as quick with the menus. I don't think it is something the player does as far as launch procedures, or landing. Maybe though.

I've seen the same but I know exactly why:

I have the Up/Down/Left/Right thrusters mapped to the POV on the joystick, if I don't let go of the POV as soon as I land then some of the presses are occasionally cached only to be executed after landing where they change the selection in the docking menu.

If you are using a docking computer then I have no suggestion, forget I mentioned it.

 

[Viper691]

That is an awesome suggestion lol....I have relaunched several times to much cursing because i was trying to hurry through.

 

[Rhaedas]

I've seen the same but I know exactly why:

I have the Up/Down/Left/Right thrusters mapped to the POV on the joystick, if I don't let go of the POV as soon as I land then some of the presses are occasionally cached only to be executed after landing where they change the selection in the docking menu.

If you are using a docking computer then I have no suggestion, forget I mentioned it.

That's what I'm guessing is happening, phantom key presses. If it's a common thing then they probably should purge commands at that point.

 

[Loose Morals]

actally yea. i have noticed over last few days if i glide into dock perfect its station services every time. if i over shoot or have to vertical decend/ascend to platform the selector can be anywhere. im on default "f/r" key for vertical thrusters. it must be something to do with this?

 

[Malic]

Yeah, *station services* is the default selection.

I wish it was *enter hanger*, so I could press that and have the moving animation going as I go into the services menu.

I am using a G940 so my thrusters and menu selection buttons are separate and an Oculus Rift.

 

[gary.brain]

Might be worth raising a bug as the default 99% of the time is the "station services" so when it does become the Launch is prob because of a code problem.

If you logout of the game and back in does it reset.... ?

 

[Loose Morals]

if after accidentally hitting launch you log out/in. you come back outside the station. tested twice.