Solution to ramming

[GJ51]

The whole ramming problem around stations needs a re-think.

The larger ship should always have the right of way.

If a ramming event occurs, it's the smaller more maneuverable ship that should be penalized, even if it kills itself.

Ships of equal size should both get penalized.

Griefer ramming solved

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

The whole ramming problem around stations needs a re-think.

The larger ship should always have the right of way.

If a ramming event occurs, it's the smaller more maneuverable ship that should be penalized, even if it kills itself.

Ships of equal size should both get penalized.

Griefer ramming solved

Griefers just fly big ships instead of small ones.

 

[CMDR Percivus Keenblade]

Griefers just fly big ships instead of small ones.

What about those for-the-lulz suicidebullets?

 

[Zieman]

What about those for-the-lulz suicidebullets?

Fly under 100 near them.

 

[CMDR Percivus Keenblade]

I do. Though I got some small ship crash into me (npc) from the back right inside the dock area while being nearly stationary myself when I was trying to aling myself to the slit to exit the station. I wasnt really moving because I was looking at my left panel but woopdido, traffic control immediately slapped the ticket on me.

 

[Zieman]

I do. Though I got some small ship crash into me (npc) from the back right inside the dock area while being nearly stationary myself when I was trying to aling myself to the slit to exit the station. I wasnt really moving because I was looking at my left panel but woopdido, traffic control immediately slapped the ticket on me.

I think that's a bug, it shouldn't happen that way.

 

[CMDR Percivus Keenblade]

I think that's a bug, it shouldn't happen that way.

That kind of lead me to believe that game does not differ speeds individually when a player crashes with a NPC? I certainly dont have any data or tried to achieve that data to speak for certain though. Considering the way 99.99% of npc ships boost as soon as they get their nose to touch the mailslit, it would be pretty dangerous, but I seem to remember I always got the ticket for side by side touching accidents while in the slit even though I wasnt speeding.

 

[Zieman]

Weird. I've bumped lots of NPCs in the past few days (doing the trade CG in Cutter), not a single fine to me. Verbal abuse from the traffic control every time though.

 

[varonica]

I do. Though I got some small ship crash into me (npc) from the back right inside the dock area while being nearly stationary myself when I was trying to aling myself to the slit to exit the station. I wasnt really moving because I was looking at my left panel but woopdido, traffic control immediately slapped the ticket on me.

Stationary while sitting in the middle of the exit flight path and reading other panels, I would have fined you as well

But seriously, you take off and start moving forward slowly while lining up, unless of course you are in one of those annoying pads right under the letterbox, then you have to do your best. But it wouldn't really surprise me if there was some sort of algorithm here that determines you weren't moving while sitting in the exit lane, hence creating a traffic hazard for other ships, it would make sense.

 

[Yaffle]

Hang on, there's a manual for this...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336

 

[CMDR Percivus Keenblade]

Well spot on book recommendation! Funny, I seem to remember the same book also existing in Witcher 3...

also as a son to a father whos a captain of his large ship, who also has a large ancestry of captains before him I can comfirm that smaller vessels are always expected to show courtesy to the bigger ships in all regards especially while docking and it is their foremost responsibility to avoid any crashes or bumps that might occur. On any busy lane with limited space avaible, I wish to note that I can bring my large ship to a full stop with an excuse such puny as "there was some sound coming from under the hood" without any worry that someone mighy crash into me from the back, because I know that traffic control is keeping a sharp eye on me and they havent allowed any ship to tail me at all. If I halted for some reason and a ship crashed right into my aft like that as I mentioned above, whole responsibility and the flame would prio go on the traffic controller, but on the dangerous world of Elite, ATC rather acts like a trigger happy bunch of ticket handers who sit there all day to greet, wave goodbye and shout to people and on occasions, push that big red button to instavaporize a new victim with those huge station vaporizers

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Well spot on book recommendation! Funny, I seem to remember the same book also existing in Witcher 3...

also as a son to a father whos a captain of his large ship, who also has a large ancestry of captains before him I can comfirm that smaller vessels are always expected to show courtesy to the bigger ships in all regards especially while docking and it is their foremost responsibility to avoid any crashes or bumps that might occur. On any busy lane with limited space avaible, I wish to note that I can bring my large ship to a full stop with an excuse such puny as "there was some sound coming from under the hood" without any worry that someone mighy crash into me from the back, because I know that traffic control is keeping a sharp eye on me and they havent allowed any ship to tail me at all. If I halted for some reason and a ship crashed right into my aft like that as I mentioned above, whole responsibility and the flame would prio go on the traffic controller, but on the dangerous world of Elite, ATC rather acts like a trigger happy bunch of ticket handers who sit there all day to greet, wave goodbye and shout to people and on occasions, push that big red button to instavaporize a new victim with those huge station vaporizers

There's a somewhat different logic for the road, however - if an articulated lorry were to drive through a city center at 100mph, you wouldn't blame pedestrians for getting squished.