Newcomer / Intro NPE: What is lacking

[TaoZero5]

Keep practicing and one day you'll come to this forum and see someone struggling with docking and you will smile and think to yourself: "yes, I mastered this". Then you'll probably leave some sarcastic comment about the person not being the right type of person to play the game and move on.

Oh, so true.

Today I saw, on fb,
Shakespear: I just finished my latest play, The Tempest.
Internet Person: That should be, the most Temp.

 

[Ziltoid T.O.]

I absolutely love the docking part. True, my first few hours play time a couple months ago I got royally **** off trying to google everything to figure out how to land. But now - highlight.

Love pulling into a station, chucking the gear down and lights on

Just pull sharply down toward the pad, following the angle of the launch ramp almost, then pull up, adjust with sidways thrusters if need be, and gently set her down with your downward thrusters. Works for me anyway.

Was sitting there once and bits of ship from someone who hadn't done so well floated over me. Amazing.

 

[Memnoch]

I enjoy docking too. It all adds to the experience. Regarding the numbers above the pads disappearing, it is mildly annoying at best as the compass still works so even if you didn't get a bead on its location immediately you can still find it with that. Hopefully they can fix this soon.

 

[Wulfclaw]

I stopped at about 6km out and alt+tabbed to figure out how to ask for docking permission (why are not communication options brought up in a a menu when you lock onto a station sub 10km automatically anyways?!?!? You can always cancel it) I got permission then a square started glowing. I began heading towards it..

Ohh and the planet I was going to was not visible in the solar system I went to it was a whole planet tethered to another planet. I had to fly to the 3rd planet before I even had a visual icon on my display showing the 4th planet.... I spent a good 30 minutes flying around the sun trying to see the planets along the ecliptic and going from the 1st to the 11th and only the 4th was not visible.... I finally flew to the 3rd planet because numerically it was the one before, and then voila! there was the 4th planet.

I flew past the landing pad on my first approach by about 100 meters or so then the light went out and I had to turn around to see where to go... I had a message saying "proceed to landing pad 1" on the pad there was multiple Zone 1's and 2's I tried to stop at zone 1 and nothing. so I sped up to make another pass hoping maybe I can use an automatic land or something. Turning back to face the outpost No landing pad lights were on, so I had to begin flying around the station looking for anything that looked like a landing surface. I got multiple warnings that I will be targeted so I had to fly out and try again.

So I alt+Tabbed and watched a You-tube video on how to dock on these things. Then lining up the damn circle took a while because even though the bullseye was blue I was not docked. Using up/down thrust over and over and faster and faster I eventually slammed down into the surface hard enough to dock.


then I had to Alt+tab to figure out how to complete my contract because I had a forgiving 3 minutes left on it.

Err... You know, there is a tutorial before even starting the game on the basics like starting, landing and basic space travel? I advise to spend the around 10 minutes to complete them. That helped a lot.

 

[Almighty Bob]

I stopped at about 6km out and alt+tabbed to figure out how to ask for docking permission (why are not communication options brought up in a a menu when you lock onto a station sub 10km automatically anyways?!?!? You can always cancel it) I got permission then a square started glowing. I began heading towards it..

Ohh and the planet I was going to was not visible in the solar system I went to it was a whole planet tethered to another planet. I had to fly to the 3rd planet before I even had a visual icon on my display showing the 4th planet.... I spent a good 30 minutes flying around the sun trying to see the planets along the ecliptic and going from the 1st to the 11th and only the 4th was not visible.... I finally flew to the 3rd planet because numerically it was the one before, and then voila! there was the 4th planet.

I flew past the landing pad on my first approach by about 100 meters or so then the light went out and I had to turn around to see where to go... I had a message saying "proceed to landing pad 1" on the pad there was multiple Zone 1's and 2's I tried to stop at zone 1 and nothing. so I sped up to make another pass hoping maybe I can use an automatic land or something. Turning back to face the outpost No landing pad lights were on, so I had to begin flying around the station looking for anything that looked like a landing surface. I got multiple warnings that I will be targeted so I had to fly out and try again.

So I alt+Tabbed and watched a You-tube video on how to dock on these things. Then lining up the damn circle took a while because even though the bullseye was blue I was not docked. Using up/down thrust over and over and faster and faster I eventually slammed down into the surface hard enough to dock.


then I had to Alt+tab to figure out how to complete my contract because I had a forgiving 3 minutes left on it.

I do not really know what to say to help then. A couple of the others gave some friendly advice about practice ETC.

On 2nd thought get a piece of paper and write a list on it then keep it with you at all times for reference write on it. Breath In. Breath Out -- repeat

If you do not do this you may faint, hope that helps