Request for some common courtesy ingame.

manny72

manny72
I would just like to make a request for some courtesy in-game. When using the docking ports in stations, even though you have a much bigger ship than me, please, don't just plough into me and push me into the wall. I know your bigger and probably better than I am (at the moment), but remember when you had a small ship? The Docking Port is big enough for the both of us. I always exit the station on the correct side, to allow incoming ships a clear path. And it's kinda obvious that you are moving your ship to grind mine against the station bulkheads, applying lateral thrust as you pass me really does show you know, that is uncalled for.

You are obviously enjoying the game, hence the larger crafts (adder, python, asp and so on). How about letting me enjoy my game as well.

Thank You
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
We have goons, tests, griefers, pirates, psychopaths, and god only knows what else running around... good luck getting common courtesy.
 

natte hond

natte hond
lots of players take more and more risk the longer they play it.
you will highly likely behave the same.
resulting in big losses so now and then.

the only advice I can give you is to avoid the crowded places.
space is big enough.
 

Hell Razor5543

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I do use the green side of the docking door when exiting, and I have noticed that my docking computer does sidestep when it detects approaching ships PROVIDED they are not moving like a frightened swallow with its' tail on fire. I have been cruising on canal boats where you stay to the right when there are vessels approaching from the other way, so I have no difficulty in doing this in the game.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Lol, good luck with getting some common courtesy, most people would'nt recognise it nowadays if it slapped them in the face,
 

Flying_Fox

Flying_Fox
manny72 said:
I always exit the station on the correct side, to allow incoming ships a clear path.
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There is no correct side in the entrance. The blinking red and green lights is to signal which way is up and down. Kinda like the red and green lights on the wings of an airplane. Frontier themselves explained this. The way the entrance is used is bigger ships over smaller ships.
 

Flavourless

Flavourless
Flying_Fox said:
There is no correct side in the entrance. The blinking red and green lights is to signal which way is up and down. Kinda like the red and green lights on the wings of an airplane. Frontier themselves explained this. The way the entrance is used is bigger ships over smaller ships.
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There is no up and down. On an aeroplane the navigation lights mark port and starboard (left and right), like on any other ship.
 

Britannkic

Britannkic
The courtesy that is common in this Galaxy is biggest ship has right of way followed by them helping you faceplant the station wall

Working as intended imo
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
Flying_Fox said:
There is no correct side in the entrance. The blinking red and green lights is to signal which way is up and down. Kinda like the red and green lights on the wings of an airplane. Frontier themselves explained this. The way the entrance is used is bigger ships over smaller ships.
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Yep... and the ONLY reason the red ones flash is for colour blind people. They are NOT traffic lights, and it is NOT a rule or even a convention. This was confirmed recently by Michael Brookes. Use your scanner before you un/dock.
 

Valethar

Valethar
Flying_Fox said:
There is no correct side in the entrance. The blinking red and green lights is to signal which way is up and down. Kinda like the red and green lights on the wings of an airplane. Frontier themselves explained this. The way the entrance is used is bigger ships over smaller ships.
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Then Frontier has absolutely no clue what those lights mean, if that's the excuse they're using.

They use those same colors to designate the port and starboard side of a ship at sea. Do you really think they need a visual indication of which side of the ship is up?

The same thing applies to aircraft. Those marker lights indicate which side of the aircraft you're looking at, not which side of it is pointing up.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Sandmann said:
Yep... and the ONLY reason the red ones flash is for colour blind people. They are NOT traffic lights, and it is NOT a rule or even a convention. This was confirmed recently by Michael Brookes. Use your scanner before you un/dock.
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yep. The only use for them is knowing where the landing pads are, I always enter from the green side so I know exactly where to fly to my landing pad (yes I do know where they all are).
 

cpy

Banned
cpy
When i had small ships i was more nimble and nobody could hit me because i could fit every small hole i found and could just skitter around them. With big ship i have? I boosted into the station once with L6 and once i kinda risked fast entry into station with L7 and hit another player also in L7. So far i have lost 1% of my profits to careless flying. I say i'm pretty good that i boost in and out of the stations. :D
 

Top Cat

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Valethar said:
Then Frontier has absolutely no clue what those lights mean, if that's the excuse they're using.

They use those same colors to designate the port and starboard side of a ship at sea. Do you really think they need a visual indication of which side of the ship is up?

The same thing applies to aircraft. Those marker lights indicate which side of the aircraft you're looking at, not which side of it is pointing up.
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Knowing which way the station considers "up" helps you work out where your landing pad is.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=51709
 

cpy

Banned
cpy
Sandmann said:
Yep... and the ONLY reason the red ones flash is for colour blind people. They are NOT traffic lights, and it is NOT a rule or even a convention. This was confirmed recently by Michael Brookes. Use your scanner before you un/dock.
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That is stupid man! When i'm taking off i see that stupid docking GUI instead of radar, is it so hard to show radar when taking off and show landing gui only when request docking is active? When you're taking off in spot near exit you'll see radar at last second before going out when you're moving fast.
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
It's been confirmed by a developer that the lights are not lane indicators. There's no such thing. They're there for up-down orientation. This helps you locate your pad. Keep the green light to your right for "right way up".

The docking conventions are: one ship at a time, smaller ships give way to larger ships.

If you try to push in, in the smaller ship, you only have yourself to blame.
 
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Sandmann

Sandmann
Valethar said:
Then Frontier has absolutely no clue what those lights mean, if that's the excuse they're using.
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Oh you're kidding. You are asserting that YOU know better than THE DESIGNERS what the lights that THEY PUT on a space station that THEY DESIGNED in an IMAGINARY universe that THEY created mean?

Yes nav lights are red and green. So are traffic lights. So are disco lights. So are the lights on the front of my PC, and on Christmas trees. Submarines have them on hatch indicator panels. So what? On FD's space station they are for nothing but orientation. How do I know? They told us very plainly.
 
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