FD can you please come up with a soultion to CMDR's blocking the pads at the outpost?
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Did you log into solo, land, log out then log back on in open? To see what would happen when you tried to launch with the Python on the pad.
You just get moved into another instance.
It forces a new instance. So then you launch, and can wing-invite people in to the clear pad in your part of Open.
I actually tried this and it DOESN'T work. Even when I added a player to my block list, the game would consistently put me in the same instance with the blocked player - I tried leaving and returning multiple times.
Now, maybe this was a bug or something changed since then. But in my experience the block feature doesn't help here, or at least not reliably.
Maybe they were waiting for notoriety to tick down.
Couldn't you both have just created a private group for the duration?
But if your wing are in that instance. The system will try to put you into it. At that time it won't care that the pad is blocked.
Or will it? [where is it]
That's what I would have tried.
Yep.
That'd put me in a new instance without the other guy.
If he then did the same thing, he'd appear in my instance, instead of the one with the Python.
Then we'd go and do a couple of missions but as soon as we jumped back into that system we'd be back in with the Python again.
I suppose so.
I don't really bother with PGs unless it's absolutely necessary.
It's not like it's a gigantic hassle but it just seems like courtesy to not park up on the only medium pad of a platform for two days in Open.
Your type of car,your manners,your sense of entitlement, your self appointed majestic aura ,your attitude...no problems as far as you're concerned
Since you were in a wing you could of decided as a group to do a hit and run and pay the bounty. That would of been a surprise to that person coming back to a rebuy screen.
Or has fd made it that ships on pads are invincible?
Or has fd made it that ships on pads are invincible?
I'd suggest that a solution to this could form part of the clear and detailed Traffic Control system that ED so desperately needs. With vectoring, rights of way (because at the moment right of way always lies with either the NPC or the player with the heaviest shields) and time slots. Kind of like we have for arrival and departure right now, but the ATC system allocates not only a pad but a maximum time you can spend there. If you want to remain at a station when you log off, or do long, drawn-out business there, or sit for an extended time in one place while you mop the cat or whatever real-world thing you have to do, you ask for an extended stay slot and get allocated a free-floating berth. There's presumably a taxi service to get you to the station - tiny shuttles running people back and forth from berths for a tiny tiny fee. If station services could be accessed from exterior berths by, I don't know, some kind of highly advanced wireless communications technology... perhaps making us of the characteristics of the electromagnetic spectrum to send information from one place to another across empty space... then you'd only need to actually dock inside the station, at a proper pad, for things like freight loading and outfitting. And even those could reasonably be handled at zero-g facilities outside the station and in fact why do we have to go inside stations again?
Hell, we could even have the opportunity, as players, to make a few credits driving those little taxi shuttles, if we wanted to. Could be quite fun, darting around between Anacondas and Pythons and Cutters and the like - especially if the little tiny shuttles have purely Newtonian/Assist Off flight models.
Anyway, planetside ports won't even have that problem. While we're limited to barren, airless worlds anyway there's pretty much no practical limit on bare-terrain landing spots outside settlements - and then either take your own SRV into the town (where the problem becomes finding a parking space) or, again, call a taxi to take you there and bring you back after.
Unfortunately, after all this, I'd go and say something stupid like, "A little more development of docking, berthing, and traffic management at stations would also enhance players' immersion", and that'd invalidate the whole idea because the whole Muh Immershun!!!1! thing would kick in, but even then I'd keep on believing this, or something like it, is one of several things ED really badly needs in order to become half the game it could be.
Hell, we could even have the opportunity, as players, to make a few credits driving those little taxi shuttles, if we wanted to. Could be quite fun, darting around between Anacondas and Pythons and Cutters and the like - especially if the little tiny shuttles have purely Newtonian/Assist Off flight models.
Anyway, planetside ports won't even have that problem. While we're limited to barren, airless worlds anyway there's pretty much no practical limit on bare-terrain landing spots outside settlements - and then either take your own SRV into the town (where the problem becomes finding a parking space) or, again, call a taxi to take you there and bring you back after.
Unfortunately, after all this, I'd go and say something stupid like, "A little more development of docking, berthing, and traffic management at stations would also enhance players' immersion", and that'd invalidate the whole idea because the whole Muh Immershun!!!1! thing would kick in, but even then I'd keep on believing this, or something like it, is one of several things ED really badly needs in order to become half the game it could be.
There does exist a queue at starports, but it's completely inaccessible to players. Only NPCs and the docking computer are able to add themselves to and know where they are in the queue.
Which is just bizarre considering the Brits' love of queues.
Y'know, I swear that in all the time I've been playing ED, I've never once been waiting in a docking queue (with DC enabled) and then started to dock.
Maybe it's just that I'm most commonly in that position at CGs, in Open, and other CMDRs just "queue jump" (because they're not actually aware of the queue) but my ship just sits there for 5 minutes, I watch other ships come and go and then I get bored of waiting, throttle up, stick it through the slot and suddenly the DC decides I can dock after all.
Sounds like it might be time to have a pad blocking party at the CG.
But that is the joy of queuing, working out when you will get to the front. ;-)
We get karma points and discounts on the price of tea.
In theory you can languish about in it too if you use the DC...
Although in practice when you see that message it's generally cos the AI is stuck in the entrance again...