Station Landing Pad Number Assignment Highlighted Suggestion

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Caydran

Caydran
Hey Frontier, when you ask for docking permission and are assigned a landing pad number, would it be too hard to "highlight" that pad with a different "color" number denoting your pad instead of having all the landing pads highlighted with the same "color"?

So, when I get clearance to dock and I am given a pad number, make it "red" instead of "yellow" and then I can easily identify where I am suppose to be.

Here''s a thought. Make "Landing Pad Numbers" assigned to you an ARX Item and sell it in the store. Then every pilot could buy that option and purchase a "cclor" for their landing pad numbers.

Just a thought and a simple change.
 
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smiths121

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I like the ARX idea, but I do not think it would work in open. Some pad numbers will be more popular than others.

Now doing per station might have legs, but would be very expensive in ARX.

Simon
 

Miklos Atreides

Miklos Atreides
Pad numbering is clockwise in big stations. By going in with the green side on your right pad one will be below you. This way you already have an imagination where your pad will be before entering the station.

Regards,
Miklos
 

Semivivus

Semivivus
I think it's a part of player skill to be able to identify where their landing pad is located. I still occasionally find myself attempting to land on the wrong landing pad. Especially on planetary ports and engineering bases.
 

Caydran

Caydran
For me, I'm colorblind to yellow, which looks grey to me, so all the pads look grey. Hard to see. I do depend on the compass to get me to the right pad, but it would be nice to have a choice of pad color. On Planets, they are blue and that's great. I can see that fine most of the time, only one pad lights up.

So, Frontier, some folks may be colorblind to a certain color and giving them a choice would just be making the game more user friendly to those with this handicap.
 

photomankc

photomankc
Listening to people here is comical at times. The pretzels you'll bend into to claim that an element that is clearly just a matter of "we didn't implement that" is some major skill aspect of the game. Highlighting the pad assigned to you in another color is simple, clearly possible as pads have all manor of colors, and simply wasn't done. Station A = Pad color Y.

It would be a nice touch. The compass works okay too but highlighting is not some product of insanity.
 

DaveB

DaveB
JC on a jumponium-boosted pogo stick, How much hand-holding does a pilot need in the 3300's? Why do so many find it so difficult to keep track of station and base configurations in their heads? Orbital outposts there's only a few basic configurations and memorising the complete layout of each one will happen real quick if you just fly the landings. Stations with mailslots are identical in their layout for all their differences in internal decor and you only need to hold in your mind that "this group of pads are close to the slot for this size of ship" and a rough idea of which way round the dock the numbers progress to not ever need your compass there unless your canopy is out. Ground bases, like outposts, come in a limited number of configurations. They've more pads than outposts do but apart from the big circular ones they tend to group pads of a similar size together and so it's just a matter of being pointed towards the right general area and you'll pick out your number just fine with plenty of time to adjust your approach.

Past couple of days we've had threads about flying efficient SC arcs and landings? Just fly your ships, don't simply hand over to a computer and sit there drooling into your remlock.

At this rate folks will be needing approach radar and a continuous fix from the tower to find the seat of that remlock with both hands....
 

ebbrell

ebbrell
Really, no thanks. Its already easy enough, look for the number.
And you also know the position of the number before you enter the station. Pads remain in same place 41 is always near to slot, 45 is always towards the back.
 

Semivivus

Semivivus
photomankc said:
Listening to people here is comical at times. The pretzels you'll bend into to claim that an element that is clearly just a matter of "we didn't implement that" is some major skill aspect of the game. Highlighting the pad assigned to you in another color is simple, clearly possible as pads have all manor of colors, and simply wasn't done. Station A = Pad color Y.

It would be a nice touch. The compass works okay too but highlighting is not some product of insanity.
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Even more comical are people with 0 reading comprehension.

If I'm playing a flight sim, then I would please like to fly. And I want to FIND my own landing pad, too. Situational awareness is a part of pilot's skill set, and it's utilised in docking also. Compass and highlighting take away from it. To me it would be akin to using a racing line in a racing sim (useful as it might be). I don't want that amount of handholding in Elite. And there is always a docking computer.
 
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