Engineers all over the Galaxy are speaking up about the issue of payment. As it turns out, modifying pilot equipment in exchange for nothing but the materials required to perform the modifications doesn't leave a lot of Credits left over for basic facility upgrades and maintenance, according to an anonymous source.
"I'm expected to do all this work for free. I comply because I'm dealing with heavily-armed and very experienced combat pilots, and I fear for my life, but my facility is falling apart!"
These reports are coming in after a large number of independent pilots have been reporting that their designated docking pads are occupied when trying to land at the stations engineers operate from, leading to collisions, fines, frustration, and in some cases death. Pilots have been working around the problem by entering an alternate dimension where there are no other pilots at the station through some not-yet-fully understood means, but many feel that the need to resort to such extreme measures is ludicrous.
"I once spent 2 hours travelling between dimensions, cancelling and requesting docking permission, and even disappearing from existence entirely for a few minutes, but none of it worked! For a bunch of smart folks, these engineers sure do suck at creating automated docking systems," one independent pilot commented to GalNet.
It's a worrying problem to be sure. This reporter wonders how even an experienced engineer who specializes in advanced sensor equipment is unable to program a docking system that can "sense" if there is a ship on the pads that it's directing incoming pilots to land at.
Reporting for GalNet news, I'm Poopsie Doopsie.
(Please add some code that checks to see if the pad is already occupied before directing incoming pilots to land at said pad. Whatever you did for stations seems to work great. You can just do that again, right?)
"I'm expected to do all this work for free. I comply because I'm dealing with heavily-armed and very experienced combat pilots, and I fear for my life, but my facility is falling apart!"
These reports are coming in after a large number of independent pilots have been reporting that their designated docking pads are occupied when trying to land at the stations engineers operate from, leading to collisions, fines, frustration, and in some cases death. Pilots have been working around the problem by entering an alternate dimension where there are no other pilots at the station through some not-yet-fully understood means, but many feel that the need to resort to such extreme measures is ludicrous.
"I once spent 2 hours travelling between dimensions, cancelling and requesting docking permission, and even disappearing from existence entirely for a few minutes, but none of it worked! For a bunch of smart folks, these engineers sure do suck at creating automated docking systems," one independent pilot commented to GalNet.
It's a worrying problem to be sure. This reporter wonders how even an experienced engineer who specializes in advanced sensor equipment is unable to program a docking system that can "sense" if there is a ship on the pads that it's directing incoming pilots to land at.
Reporting for GalNet news, I'm Poopsie Doopsie.
(Please add some code that checks to see if the pad is already occupied before directing incoming pilots to land at said pad. Whatever you did for stations seems to work great. You can just do that again, right?)
