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But they do. It's a waste of time just sitting and waiting.
I’ve just discovered the Docking Computer, and...
- Thread starter Bantha
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Docking computer is a great time saver, even if you are an A-class pilot.
Particularly with undocking, setting up your next location in the galactic map while the animations are happening, then when ready to go your ship is floating, maybe partly out of the station, and zoom off you go overiding the docking computer.
Well I beg to differ. You know there are people in flight sim communities whose idea of playing is to disregard ATC and throttle to max...and those who follow real world style regulations to point.
There are those who hate you just having one. They assume you don't know how to fly. They also don't know that modern shipyards have a similar system in place to dock ships.
I am good and docking and taking off. I get to fly simulated aircraft as part of my job so I'm quite used to it. I make it look easy, I'm told. Still, I use one because I can then do other things while the docking processes goes on. Keep an eye on it, though, sometimes it will bash you into walls. I notice, too, that it likes to engage afterburner when approaching ground based pads.
I am good and docking and taking off. I get to fly simulated aircraft as part of my job so I'm quite used to it. I make it look easy, I'm told. Still, I use one because I can then do other things while the docking processes goes on. Keep an eye on it, though, sometimes it will bash you into walls. I notice, too, that it likes to engage afterburner when approaching ground based pads.
I've got an ADC on a Type 9 and it scrapes the mailslot sometimes, but no more often than I would in a fatty like that.
Gads every, Docking Computer, Cutter????
Every time I drop at a station I hit boost and charge that thing straight through the slot, it's EASY! Dink the toast rack on the way through to slow you down a bit and bobs-your-uncle. Docking Cutters is easy.
OK so you really have to line it up in supercruise BEFORE dropping out but still...
Every time I drop at a station I hit boost and charge that thing straight through the slot, it's EASY! Dink the toast rack on the way through to slow you down a bit and bobs-your-uncle. Docking Cutters is easy.
OK so you really have to line it up in supercruise BEFORE dropping out but still...
Wrong
Not about whether it’s easy, it’s about being lazy, and/or reading my phone at the same time
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I’ve thrown one on for grinding, but be warned— they are not a replacement for a human pilot, and once you get complacent, they will try to kill you.
I'll agree that auto launch is useful in that way.
Fixed it...
Docking any ship is easy-peasy once a player has a few hours on the clock, Beluga - bring it in on auto once and know where you should be, exactly the same with the remaining 'big' ships - easy-peasy...
But, I still like the option to launch or dock automatically - even if the ADC has lost me a Cutter recently... Because I can...
Suppose it doesn't matter all that much since we're all billionaires lol.
I have an ADC on all my large ships. Well, all except the Clippers, but they’er not really large ships, just medium ships with a large wings.
As the captain, I sit on the bridge in the big chair and issue orders to my minions using voice attack with HCS VoicePacks.
“Number one, take us in.“
”Yes sir. Requesting docking. Helm, you have the conn.”
Then I sit back, relax and listen to the Blue Danube as my crew scurries about docking the ship.
As the captain, I sit on the bridge in the big chair and issue orders to my minions using voice attack with HCS VoicePacks.
“Number one, take us in.“
”Yes sir. Requesting docking. Helm, you have the conn.”
Then I sit back, relax and listen to the Blue Danube as my crew scurries about docking the ship.
A DC was not only the first thing I saved up for in ED, but was also the first thing I bought in the original '84 game too.
It's personal choice here, I don't bother what other's do or say, but for me it lands my Ship far quicker than I've been able to.
In my six years of playing & having a DC fitted on every Ship Iv bought, it's only borked on me no more than a dozen times. I don't 100% trust it, I'm always ready to take over if it does freak out.
I have NEVER lost a Ship through a DC malfunction
It's personal choice here, I don't bother what other's do or say, but for me it lands my Ship far quicker than I've been able to.
In my six years of playing & having a DC fitted on every Ship Iv bought, it's only borked on me no more than a dozen times. I don't 100% trust it, I'm always ready to take over if it does freak out.
I have NEVER lost a Ship through a DC malfunction
... and you don't have 2 geriactric dogs with peanut bladders either?
(my loss wasn't malfunction as such, more left to it's own devices and loitering too long - probably as one of those 'elegant' nacelles got stuck in something!)
Only if you get the super-duper deluxe engineered version.
Of course, docking back in '84 was a flipping nightmare without a DC.
The sweet irony of it was that when you'd earned enough to buy one, you didn't really need it anymore.
The current situation is better in that respect, but I still maintain that noobs are better off not using it until they've learned how to dock manually, because it won't always be available. Once they know how to land manually anywhere they want to, on the other hand, it's purely a QoL issue.
I'll still KoS anybody who has one, though. (No, I won't. But I had to say that to keep the discussion going
).The dilemma is only worsened by both KWS & ADC - then throw in SCA for completeness...
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Or comes free with every £30 ARX package purchased.
I don't like SCAThe dilemma is only worsened by both KWS & ADC - then throw in SCA for completeness...