Hmm I don't clearly remember positions of large landing pads anymore, as I usually leave landing of Cutter to autodocker. Weren't there some pretty close to mailslot end of station? (Only ship not having docking computer on my fleet is my FdL.)
Got stuck inside a station, literally unable to move, and thereby blown up. Now I'm stuck with 1000cr and a 2.5mcr loan.
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A toggle hotkey would be cool. Toggle on/off if you have a good target for it.
There is a marker, it's the compass. If you insist on flying without insurance, not using the compass, misreading the numerical signs and then crashing your ship manually: what do you want?
If this isn't worthy of destroying your ship, nothing is. Be thankful there is a loan at all and stop making so many blunders within a few minutes of time.
If this isn't worthy of destroying your ship, nothing is. Be thankful there is a loan at all and stop making so many blunders within a few minutes of time.
I didn't crash it manually. My nose clipped a bit of geometry and got me wedged in place. As I tried to get free, the station decided I wasn't worthy of docking anymore despite having 8 minutes left and blew me up.
I've heard extending (or retracting) the landing gear can free a stuck ship too.
So you crashed it into station
That works at least for stuck in mailslot scenario. You'll need to press button repeatedly.
Yep, and I think years ago you actually might have been the one who told me the FA Off trick
when I made a post like OP!
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I think you can also log out in extreme situations and logging back in will bring you back to the game outside the station. While I am not a fan of that path, if you are hooked on something like a lamp post that would otherwise not be a problem if you were flying a real space ship, I think in some cases it's entirely justified.
I’m not here to pick a fight, really, but then i can’t really be on your side. I won’t even begin with the « don’t fly with a rebuy » massive sign that hovers over your post because losing credits over a bug is infuriating, but the loss would have been less harsh with a rebuy, so that is that.
But then when i read that someone has « hundreds of manual dockings under his/her spacebelt » and don’t know how about the docking compass, i’m confused. As i’m confused of the whys of your post. To me it reads like that: « i made a mistake and i will not take responsibility but accuse the game of being too hard and stupid ». I find that worrying coming from an adult, but hey, i’m not your dad or anything!
Now for the constructive part, you will find the docking guide below, that is not so hard to learn especially if you use it a few hundreds time. And secondly when you lose assets due to a bug, open a ticket with the support wing of frontier, they happen to be the real great department of frontier( with the sound design team too!).
See you in the black, cmdr!
But then when i read that someone has « hundreds of manual dockings under his/her spacebelt » and don’t know how about the docking compass, i’m confused. As i’m confused of the whys of your post. To me it reads like that: « i made a mistake and i will not take responsibility but accuse the game of being too hard and stupid ». I find that worrying coming from an adult, but hey, i’m not your dad or anything!
Now for the constructive part, you will find the docking guide below, that is not so hard to learn especially if you use it a few hundreds time. And secondly when you lose assets due to a bug, open a ticket with the support wing of frontier, they happen to be the real great department of frontier( with the sound design team too!).
See you in the black, cmdr!
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I use the ADC in my T9 Heavy when filling up the carrier with Tritium, it's just backwards and forwards for a lot of runs and always to nearby stations so it gets a bit....sleep inducing, if I start to nod off at least the ship can land itself.
The issue here is that I didn't have much time to react. I started getting shot at while I was trying to free my ship.
The loss of my ship was because it got wedged on geometry and I couldn't get it free in the 5 or so seconds the game decided I had to get free. I don't even know if it was actually a bug or not, but it certainly wasn't anything I'd consider fair. Even in real life, I'd imagine there would be communications with the commander before opening fire. Probably some hefty fines as well, but probably better than murdering them outright and shipping them off.
Fines are for things like shooting ships, running slaves, piracy, robbery, smuggling, and littering. Intentional or not, I'm afraid you got nicked for loitering. Loitering is punishable by death. Much needed swift justice to ensure the safety and integrity of docking areas.
Mate, get some sleep. Then grab a cup of tea, relax and read what you are saying. This is a computer game, you can afford to take responsibility here.
"I didn't crash it manually. My nose clipped a bit of geometry" is legit the weakest crap I read all day. And my day job is QA.
Wait till your doing a war and hand in some bonds or a mission, which then puts you in the "This Station now hates you" level of reputation while you are docked.
The station interior guns start shooting you on the pad, so you enter the hanger to stop being shot at.
And your only option is to try and get out of the station before it kills you.
Thats always fun... NOT
The station interior guns start shooting you on the pad, so you enter the hanger to stop being shot at.
And your only option is to try and get out of the station before it kills you.
Thats always fun... NOT
Yeah OP I agree with sometimes the numbers aren't clear but I'm pretty sure they've recently changed the contrast in stations to make it easier.
Also when the dot on the radar is in the middle bottom and just going hollow instead of solid - means you're right in line with the middle of the pad.
I reckon you got blown away because you were over the wrong pad. Happened to me once.
Also when the dot on the radar is in the middle bottom and just going hollow instead of solid - means you're right in line with the middle of the pad.
I reckon you got blown away because you were over the wrong pad. Happened to me once.
My sympathies, even if I spot my assigned pad coming through the slot I always check with the compass to make sure I am on the right heading as I have misread the message or pad display before now and headed to the wrong pad.
As most of us know the compass to the left of the scanner screen changes when you are near to an outpost or passing through the slot to point to your assigned pad.
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I looked at it because when I came through the slot the dot moved and as I lined up with the pad it moved back to the centre of its screen.