On a vaguely related note, anybody know what happens if you have a DC fitted and you get allocated a pad that's got an NPC ship sat on it?
You have to find a water geyser and wash off that biowaste from your ship.
This is my first week playing ED and I haven't shed my noob skin yet. I was experiencing the same issue earlier and couldn't gain access, even though I had no problem earlier at the same station. Eventually, I figured out why. I had my weapons deployed. >.<
Perhaps this is the issue? It's not so embarassing for me, I'm a noob. For a seasoned played, I'd imagine it's utterly humiliating. Therefore, if you want to save face, just pretend like you didn't make my mistake. I'll understand. =P
This happened to me recently.An asp,stood on it's tail in the corner.I tried to dislodge it,but just got warned.Solution was as you described.OP's problem sounds like not close enough to the station before requesting docking.Sometimes,you just have to wait it out.
At least you didn't accidentally tag anything with them in the NFZ, the station would erase you.
Apologies for the double post. I'm still new to the forum and can't edit my posts since I have to wait for mod approval.
When I go to a station where you land on the outside, I'm always given hangar #3. If I arrive at the station and an NPC (I play solo) is using hangar #3, I have to wait until they leave before the station will allow me to dock.
Like Phong and Blas Ducreaux, sometimes it's glitched and the departing ship gets stuck on the edge of the hangar, so the hangar doesn't reset. Usually I have to log out of the game to reset it. It doesn't seem to glitch if I keep my distance from the station but close enough to request docking.
That's an outpost. They're small with a very limited number of pads. The pad you get is determined by your ship size.
So there's many times where another ship, npc or player, can be blocking the pad. but I've not seen the ship stuck on the edge of the hangar before. If you can grab a video of it, submit a bug report.
In any event, you shouldn't see these kinds of issues with the larger stations because there's plenty of pads in the coriolis/orbis stations.