Parking experience needs a QoL pass

[g0oglyeyes]

Please a) increase the brightness and drawing distance of the holographic parking indicators and dim them gradually as you approach, or b) have the target pad temporarily override the alignment indicator. One or the other should suffice.

A pad in the far back of a station is completely unlit from the mail slot even with drawing distance maxed out. Certain shades of holographic indicators like dull teal blends in with the flood lighting of the pad itself, and some colours blend in with the environment lighting (i.e. red indicators in certain high tech stations like George Lucas in the Leesti system). A docking request sent from 7.5 km on a dark planet means you cannot see where the proper heading is at all, and does not improve until ~2.5 km.

Thanks for the consideration.

 

[aRJay]

By alignment indicator do you mean the ‘compass’ to the left of the radar?
Because that does indicate the heading too your pad, in a station it switches as you go for the slot elsewhere I believe the switch happens when your docking request is accepted.

The holograms could be more distinct at times.

 

[KRISXR]

I think I get what your saying, pretty sure i do. I also see stuff similar to what your talking about. A tidy up would be nice. I just don't want them to get over stretched with all what else is going on. It's gotten a bit cra cra since trailblazers.

You know the biggest docking thing for me is (especially large ships) when I hit auto dock and I'm right there at the pad, the ship launches straight up, does a 180, and comes screaming down at the pad, head on, to pull off some kind of Rockford Files parking job.

 

[Dougie]

I have found that the only place where visibility issues occur are at engineer's sites in the dark. For some reason I find it hard to immediately locate the illuminated hologram of my designated pad. I have never had any trouble locating the pad at any station - mind you, I know roughly where to expect it to be from its number, knowing that 24 and 25 (large pads) are directly overhead I know whether my pad will be to the left or right on entry.

(Is there any logic to engineer pad numbers? I have never paid attention to that, they seem all higgledy-piggledy to me. )