Solving Station Ramming

It's occured to me that now we have the advanced docking computer, FD have a way to deal with station ramming and pad blocking:-

If you collide (however slowly) with another ship when the other ship is under automated control and you're not, you become wanted.
 
Wouldn't be just the once I have had to dodge an-autopilot controlled ship that decided to launch just as I am passing over the pad. The problem with auto-pilot is that it doesn't take into account where player ships are, only where NPC ships are, so getting rammed by an auto-pilot controlled ship and then me getting fined or imprisoned for it would be....well bizarre in the context of crime and punishment.
 
Wouldn't be just the once I have had to dodge an-autopilot controlled ship that decided to launch just as I am passing over the pad. The problem with auto-pilot is that it doesn't take into account where player ships are, only where NPC ships are, so getting rammed by an auto-pilot controlled ship and then me getting fined or imprisoned for it would be....well bizarre in the context of crime and punishment.
Ah, but if the player ships are under auto- control then it does take them into account (or at least it looks like it). It's only manually controlled ships you have to dodge.
 
I remember the old days when my Type 7 used to go straight through sideys near the dock whilst under autopilot....

Without getting fined or made a criminal for the privilege .

That autopilot can be pretty aggressive when it wants to be...
 
Ah, but if the player ships are under auto- control then it does take them into account (or at least it looks like it). It's only manually controlled ships you have to dodge.

No it's not, auto-pilot ships don't take into account manually controlled ships, so it's the manually controlled ships doing everything correct, under the speed limit, giving way to other ships, that can be suddenly rammed from behind or underneath by auto-pilot ships, and the manually controlled ships, under your system, would be fined even though they have done nothing wrong.
 
It's occured to me that now we have the advanced docking computer, FD have a way to deal with station ramming and pad blocking:-

If you collide (however slowly) with another ship when the other ship is under automated control and you're not, you become wanted.

So, you're auto docking and I'm docking manually (and obeying the speed limit, mind you) and I happen to bump you (it happens) so I become wanted?

Garbage idea is garbage.
 
Automatic flight needs a bit of fine tuning. Crime and punishment needs a bit of fine tuning. A lot of things in ED need a bit of fine tuning.
 

dxm55

Banned
Solution? Easy.

As long as the ship is in autopilot, disable all pad or mailslot blocking offences.
Ditto if the station is damaged, and explosions are happening all around. Disable, or at least triple the length of the offence buffer time.

It's just a flag in the code.
 
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