PSA: sitting in the bay blocks the pad!

[Bigmaec]

Seriously CMDRs!

If you sit in the single large bay of a rescue ship, you're not helping.

You cause everyone else to have to go to solo because you're still blocking the pad.

Don't block the pads. Pad blocking is evil.

It causes many deaths because people can't rescue other people or get blown up by caustic damage.

Don't sit in the hangar in outposts, or at rescue ships.

You're blocking the pad.

I hope you got the message that sitting in hangars is blocking that pad.

 

[Nasc]

This goes doubly so for people blocking a pizza delivery.

 

[Ezren]

Never have I been so tempted to just launch torpedoes at an outpost than when I ran into somebody idling on the pad for the third time last night.

"Yes, I could wait for them to leave but I need to do things in this system" I mutter, finger lightly tapping at the triggers. "I need to turn this mission in. I need to not have a bounty on my head."

 

[Mohrgan]

When I land on a pad, I consider it mine. Until I'm ready to leave. Deal with it. Solo is there for you, use it.

 

[Lightspeed]

Never have I been so tempted to just launch torpedoes at an outpost than when I ran into somebody idling on the pad for the third time last night.

"Yes, I could wait for them to leave but I need to do things in this system" I mutter, finger lightly tapping at the triggers. "I need to turn this mission in. I need to not have a bounty on my head."

It's not just ON the pad, but inside the hangar as well .... this is not often appreciated. Even I made that mistake in the early days, thinking by entering the hangar, I was clearing the pad for others.

 

[Zieman]

Never have I been so tempted to just launch torpedoes at an outpost than when I ran into somebody idling on the pad for the third time last night.

Unwise.exe, especially because ships on pads are invulnerable.
And that's precisely the reason some peeps do it (pad hogging), to get the RAEG reaction.

 

[Northpin]

It causes many deaths because people can't rescue other people or get blown up by caustic damage.

Yes, this ^

Coming to dock at a megaship, with no canopy and very little air, then finding the pad blocked by a basking commander.
Logging to solo in these circumstances, means you have to go through 15s timer (utterly stupid since you are not actually in combat)
And once you get in solo, guess what: you find yourself at 10km from the Megaship
In my particular case, this experience ended with since i run out of air the second i hit the pad, failing to clamp :/

 

[Wolf Starslayer]

PSA , I know ; I'm doing it to wind you up Op.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

In my particular case, this experience ended with since i run out of air the second i hit the pad, failing to clamp :/

Carrying a little bit of iron and nickel around will let you get another set of minutes on the timer from synthesis.

(People have got to Beagle Point that way, so you should be able to find somewhere with a free docking bay)

 

[Bigmaec]

When I land on a pad, I consider it mine. Until I'm ready to leave. Deal with it. Solo is there for you, use it.

PSA , I know ; I'm doing it to wind you up Op.

Griefers

 

[Wimmer]

Hint: You can produce the air on the right side panel. Like ammo

--edit--
Ninjas everywhere!

 

[Bigmaec]

Hint: You can produce the air on the right side panel. Like ammo

Does that work taking damage from caustic?

 

[Mohrgan]

Yes, this ^

Coming to dock at a megaship, with no canopy and very little air, then finding the pad blocked by a basking commander.
Logging to solo in these circumstances, means you have to go through 15s timer (utterly stupid since you are not actually in combat)
And once you get in solo, guess what: you find yourself at 10km from the Megaship
In my particular case, this experience ended with since i run out of air the second i hit the pad, failing to clamp :/

You do not have to suffer the 15 sec. delay. Unless you are in combat, and then you would have bigger problems, than switching into Solo, under those conditions.

You should have planned ahead.

 

[Wimmer]

Does that work taking damage from caustic?

Nope

--edit-- but heat does.

--edit 2-- ninjas everywhere for the second time

blocked!

 

[Speedcuffs]

Does that work taking damage from caustic?

You need to overheat your ship.
Preferably by unloading your railguns at the offending Cmdr when they lift off.

 

[Mohrgan]

Griefers

You can't tell why I am docked. Docking is valid gameplay. When you log into open, you accept the fact that anyone may be blocking a pad, build your ships appropriately.

 

[Bigmaec]

You can't tell why I am docked. Docking is valid gameplay. When you log into open, you accept the fact that anyone may be blocking a pad, build your ships appropriately.

blocked

 

[Northpin]

You do not have to suffer the 15 sec. delay. Unless you are in combat, and then you would have bigger problems, than switching into Solo, under those conditions.

Yeah, but the timer still happens
Pretty much the same way the timer happens after you clear a guardian site and try to relog to do it again.

Carrying a little bit of iron and nickel around will let you get another set of minutes on the timer from synthesis.

(People have got to Beagle Point that way, so you should be able to find somewhere with a free docking bay)

The irony is most likely i had topped on most materials, but the only thing that kept rolling my cogs was dock asap dock asap dock asap
resynth air never came up

 

[Mohrgan]

blocked

Blocking is valid game play. It's just accepting defeat, that's all.

 

[777Driver]

Seriously CMDRs!

If you sit in the single large bay of a rescue ship, you're not helping.

The problem is not the Cmdr, it is whoever was in charge of authorizing the flight operation carriers to be released with minimal docking pads. Not thought through in the slightest. This goes as far back as MB stating the outpost issue would be resolved.

Just add more pads for Christs sake.