(There is a normal post at the bottom making my points clear in a non-RP way)
Angry Customer Complains to SinCorn about their Docking Computer
Excerpt from your marketing info, just in case you know so little of what you are trying to sell us that you don't even know what product I am contacting you about.
"The SinCorn RemLock D&A System is a sophisticated and expensive piece of gadgetry"
Really? Sophisticated? Really? What did you do, stick the phrase 'appealing to customers' into the Galactic Goggle Inc Literacy Service?
No matter which version of firmware I use, your device has several blatant problems. I am sure I read, "seemless interfacing with the host's comm & nav systems" at some point in your literature.
How is this seemless?
"Relax and let our combination of excellence in harward and nanoware design take the stress out of your life"
So .. just so you can see that I am not really your adversary here. How about you do some more bribing, probably a lot less given the above quoted ITSRB report, unlock your undocking protocol and start selling the SCRLDA Mk I as the SCRLDA Mk II to all those pilots that are about to have a huge desire to avoid higher fines and, doubtless, higher third party, accident, piracy and theft insurance costs.
Yours Sincerely,
Commander Crystal Lattice
Deputy Head, Intergalactic Nanoware Redundancy & Monopolies Commission
Poe Faced Version
Basically, please give us a docking computer that will undock as well as dock us.
It could be hooked into the set destination and supercruise function for automatic launch from within a station for automatic activation or simply activated if you have set a destination and select launch.
Obviously this would cost a good deal more than a docking computer (I did notice that the existing one is called Basic, so maybe its already ingame somehwere or it's intended as a later feature).
Angry Customer Complains to SinCorn about their Docking Computer
Excerpt from your marketing info, just in case you know so little of what you are trying to sell us that you don't even know what product I am contacting you about.
"The SinCorn RemLock D&A System is a sophisticated and expensive piece of gadgetry"
Really? Sophisticated? Really? What did you do, stick the phrase 'appealing to customers' into the Galactic Goggle Inc Literacy Service?
No matter which version of firmware I use, your device has several blatant problems. I am sure I read, "seemless interfacing with the host's comm & nav systems" at some point in your literature.
How is this seemless?
- After I contact a station for docking clearance, your device will not engage unless I first lower my speed manually. Hands free docking, eh?
- Is there somewhere in the user manual where you specify what exact speed I am meant to adjust my vessel to? Blue phase speeds don't seem to be right, full stop does not seem to be right. My best guess is 'some speed that is not very fast'.
- "It comes with MemnSomn pilot interaction to induce hi-cram sleep during the maneuvers." Hahaha yes thank you so much for several light years of travel that I did not really expect to be making. Because I did not reduce my speed and the SCRLDA failed to engage the docking routines, while nevertheless engaging the MemnSomn routines, I was several light years away when the SCRLDA was forced to stop because my ship ran out of fuel.
- If I try to disable flight assistance, for whatever reason, your 'docking computer' overrides about the only thing I might ever have to do manually, and turns it back on again! Do you have any idea how Dangerous that is?
- "Firmware designed and written by the best nano coders available." Look! Before you hired them you should have made sure that they understood that 'nano coder' does not mean 'intellectual dwarf'!
"Relax and let our combination of excellence in harward and nanoware design take the stress out of your life"
- Okay so after I have jumped through hoops just to engage the SCRLDA it admittedly does get me docked. Though, can you please tell me why the SCRLDA Mk 1 v3.24e firmware insists on completely redundant flight path adjustments as it approaches the station entrance portal?
I know you spent billions bribing station officials before you released your device so that they would rubberstamp the SCRLDA beacon system applications but why did you bother since your firmware clearly ignores the flight path beacons you spent so much on and tries to align with the ship beacon for the senior most active station security officer currently inside the station?
I may prefer to use your SCRLDA with its failure remuneration indemnity warranty (I really like that part to be honest) to get me into the station but let's face it. My ship should take the most direct safe path to a point immediately outside the entrance portal, adjusting rotation as it does so, and then fly in. Why does it seem to adjust its relative zero on each axis instead of just calculating a direct approach vector? - And the above is not all as irrelevant as you are probably thinking. If your nanoware, by whatever method can get me into the station, why the hell can it not take me out again?!
- Are you not aware that one of the primary selling points of the SCRLDA is "Reduce risk of accident and pilot error". That's so damn right! 20 Ly of mind numbing hyperspace and supercruise and sometimes even I have problems focusing on docking procedure.
- So read this from the ITSRB (Interalactic Traffic Safety Review Board). "But all aforementioned causes of space traffic accidents pale into obscurity when we consider in-station traffic. 99.998% of all spaceship collisions occur inside space stations. This is in part attributed to poor traffic control regulation (15.86%) and miscellanous causes (1.02%) being some of the problem but with pilot error being the cause of the remainder."
- And this at the end of the same report. "We therefore recommend heavier fines for pilots involved in in-station accidents as a disincentive to laxity. We also recommend, for the same reason that the ISRC (Intergalactic Station Regulations Commission) impose much heavier fines on station administrations which implement poor traffic control regulation." Clearly you then have almost carte blanche to circumvent any prior obstruction to you implementing the undocking protocol in your nanoware that I found when I reverse engineered it to try to work out how you managed to implement such a crazy inbound flight path. Yeah what, your nano coders could not work out how to calculate a gestalt vector but decided to adjust position on one axis after another?
So .. just so you can see that I am not really your adversary here. How about you do some more bribing, probably a lot less given the above quoted ITSRB report, unlock your undocking protocol and start selling the SCRLDA Mk I as the SCRLDA Mk II to all those pilots that are about to have a huge desire to avoid higher fines and, doubtless, higher third party, accident, piracy and theft insurance costs.
Yours Sincerely,
Commander Crystal Lattice
Deputy Head, Intergalactic Nanoware Redundancy & Monopolies Commission
Poe Faced Version
Basically, please give us a docking computer that will undock as well as dock us.
It could be hooked into the set destination and supercruise function for automatic launch from within a station for automatic activation or simply activated if you have set a destination and select launch.
Obviously this would cost a good deal more than a docking computer (I did notice that the existing one is called Basic, so maybe its already ingame somehwere or it's intended as a later feature).
