NPCs and the station entrances

ronin516 · Jan 31, 2015

Ya know if we are supposed to go in and out of stations on the green side. FD you need to get the NPCs doing the same. They always come right in and out the center. Lets develop a pattern here. They have been like this all the way from alpha.

bamber · Jan 31, 2015

ronin516 said:
Ya know if we are supposed to go in and out of stations on the green side. FD you need to get the NPCs doing the same. They always come right in and out the center. Lets develop a pattern here. They have been like this all the way from alpha.

You answered your own question in the last sentence

if they have "been like it since alpha" then green and red isn't in and out

hopefully a quick merge to the other 40,000,000,000 posts on the subject

Ziltoid T.O. · Jan 31, 2015

I find they often just sit there too, or bounce around off the the station till they explode

Arthur_two_sheds_Jackson · Jan 31, 2015

They are orientation markers only.

Stick to the middle and keep your eyes peeled is the best method, prepare for emergency avoidance maneuvers.

Non Grata · Jan 31, 2015

Arthur_two_sheds_Jackson said:
They are orientation markers only.

Stick to the middle and keep your eyes peeled is the best method, prepare for emergency avoidance maneuvers.

Then why does the red one now flash?

rebelredneck · Jan 31, 2015

Always fun to watch an NPC anaconda get stuck in the cow catcher and wait for the space station to turn him to atoms

Arthur_two_sheds_Jackson · Jan 31, 2015

taotoo said:
Then why does the red one now flash?

Purely cosmetic

S~P · Jan 31, 2015

You are not going to get a T9 to keep to the side, they take up to much room.

tuomaa · Jan 31, 2015

taotoo said:
Then why does the red one now flash?

To help the red-green colorblind know which is which. A dev explained this in some post.

SamSpade · Jan 31, 2015

I don't mind where they go thru, it's just they are so slow. The amount of times I've nearly rear-ended one as its dawdling thru the letterbox.

Cathalo · Jan 31, 2015

If I'm in my Python or Asp, I will usually just speed up and ram my way through traffic. The other day I hit max throttle and went straight into a sidey, hit it so hard I think it messed up the destruction animation and the thing was just frozen outside the mail slot.

Feldspar · Jan 31, 2015

taotoo said:
Then why does the red one now flash?

For the colourblind.

ronin516 · Jan 31, 2015

bamber said:
You answered your own question in the last sentence

if they have "been like it since alpha" then green and red isn't in and out

hopefully a quick merge to the other 40,000,000,000 posts on the subject

It is. It has been stated by FD. In on green side and out on green side because they are oppositely placed from inside and out. Fd has stated to use them this way but still no change in npc lol. And yeah hate how slow they go and the ones getting stuck. Oh and have fun reading the other 40,000,000,000 posts. You must be new here to see more than one post on a subject huh?

Eagle Eye · Jan 31, 2015

ronin516 said:
It is. It has been stated by FD. In on green side and out on green side because they are oppositely placed from inside and out. Fd has stated to use them this way but still no change in npc lol. And yeah hate how slow they go and the ones getting stuck. Oh and have fun reading the other 40,000,000,000 posts. You must be new here to see more than one post on a subject huh?

Now where is that dev post refuting what you just said. I'm on mobile I don't feel like searching... Anyone?

edit: Here, did your research for you.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103576&page=4&p=1610735#post1610735

Waylander Sagan · Jan 31, 2015

Having worked as a pilot boat coxswain I can confirm that green and red are starboard and port respectively and when two ships approach each other the are supposed to defer starboard of each other. As all space travel in sci-fi is built around the maritime conventions of naval structure, I'd like to see the self proclaimed experts on docking point out why on Earth we should think that this wasn't the intention of FD when they implemented this exact signalling system.

Orientation is utterly irrelevant when leaving a station, so that's a weak reason and cosmetics is even weaker. Until someone can tell me that green and red aren't "defer starboard/port" then I'll assume it is, and it would save some accidents if everyone else did too.

Eagle Eye · Jan 31, 2015

Waylander Sagan said:
Having worked as a pilot boat coxswain I can confirm that green and red are starboard and port respectively and when two ships approach each other the are supposed to defer starboard of each other. As all space travel in sci-fi is built around the maritime conventions of naval structure, I'd like to see the self proclaimed experts on docking point out why on Earth we should think that this wasn't the intention of FD when they implemented this exact signalling system.

Orientation is utterly irrelevant when leaving a station, so that's a weak reason and cosmetics is even weaker. Until someone can tell me that green and red aren't "defer starboard/port" then I'll assume it is, and it would save some accidents if everyone else did too.

Look at my post man, there's link to dev clarifying

Alien · Jan 31, 2015

bamber said:
You answered your own question in the last sentence

if they have "been like it since alpha" then green and red isn't in and out

hopefully a quick merge to the other 40,000,000,000 posts on the subject

ronin516 said:
It is. It has been stated by FD. In on green side and out on green side because they are oppositely placed from inside and out. Fd has stated to use them this way but still no change in npc lol. And yeah hate how slow they go and the ones getting stuck. Oh and have fun reading the other 40,000,000,000 posts. You must be new here to see more than one post on a subject huh?

If we're going to play the "I've been here longer than you and have seen this asked too many times before" game, then I'll play too because I can trump 99% of this forum.

Don't insult new members of the forum just because they ask a question that's new to them but old to you. You were new to this forum once as well.