The Docking Computer thread.

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Docking computer still bugged as of v2.1.04.

-> Ship approaches landing pad vertically at a slight angle to the vertical. So when it actually touches down it lands on the left side before the right. Seen this on multiple large ships on large landing pads.

-> Docking computer SOMETIMES doesn't put up the warning message to slow down before taking control, and kicks in immediately.
 
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Cageman

Cageman
Limoncello Lizard said:
I'm getting some rather amusing mailslot misses with using the docking computer lately. About 1 time in six I'll get slammed into the front of the station just above or to the side of the entrance. Got completely stuck in the toastrack once. It happens mostly in my Asp.
Also had the DC do a full boost faceplant with my Orca into an engineer's tower.
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Just wanted to reply that this has happened to me too. At the same time, it seems very random to when it happenes... Not sure what is going on. I guess filing a report with a video would help the devs... at the same time... the randomness is weird.
 

HailVectron

HailVectron
Limoncello Lizard said:
I've got a T9, but I haven't trusted a DC with that yet.
Though I have smeared a couple of NPCs while docking [hehe]
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I'll only fly a T9 with a DC! Don't trust myself :) There are only 3 rules : Don't boost just before you turn it on, don't turn it on <2km from the slot, and line up with the slot before you turn it on.
 

Cataclysm72

Cataclysm72
I'm slightly impressed by the fact that this topic has 183 pages. I love a good docking computer once in a while, i'm a 'in the middle' guy i guess.
 

ExoForce

ExoForce
My Cutter will miss docking pad in front direction rather often and stop. I have to manually trigger DC again.
Other thing on other ships, slightly angled on touchdown, but landing works.
 

BarbusMaximus

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I would have Ragequit ED and demanded my money back had I not discovered the existence of Docking Computers. I'd have missed out on so much and I wonder how many people never get past the bouncing around a landing port stage?

I played the original Elite so understand how central the skill in docking is to the game. However, with the original it was all about lining up your rotation with the entry slot. This part is easy in ED, it is the stupid landing pads and mechanism that's awful.

I can manually dock but it's not a fun experience and I play ED for fun, instead I choose to waste a super valuable slot on my cobra for a DC and have few regrets, despite halving my carrying capacity as a miner.

I know ED is all about choice and freedom in playing style. So how about including a DC that can be switched on and off and doesn't take up cargo space at the beginning when Cargo space is very limited? Or even just equipping a DC as standard in the noobwinder optional internal slots and thus allowing the masochists, I mean the skilled commanders, the option of selling it to free up space? It's the wrong way round now as it only becomes viable to own a DC in the later game, by which point you have mastered docking. Frontier must lose a lot of new players this way.
 

jimbeau1571

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BarbusMaximus said:
I know ED is all about choice and freedom in playing style. So how about including a DC that can be switched on and off and doesn't take up cargo space at the beginning when Cargo space is very limited? Or even just equipping a DC as standard in the noobwinder optional internal slots and thus allowing the masochists, I mean the skilled commanders, the option of selling it to free up space? It's the wrong way round now as it only becomes viable to own a DC in the later game, by which point you have mastered docking. Frontier must lose a lot of new players this way.
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Well you can switch it off in the right hand panel under the Modules, although it is still taking a slot up in the Optionals.
Personally, learning to dock in a Sidewinder/Cobra is a lot easier than doing it in a Python or Anaconda later on when the chances of getting stuck in the toaster are far greater.

I have a DC on my Anaconda just for ease really. But i keep the speed up going through the toaster and then throttle back once through. This way it saves the 'Waiting to Dock' happening outside the station which is a pain.:D
 

KellyR

KellyR
BarbusMaximus said:
I know ED is all about choice and freedom in playing style. So how about including a DC that can be switched on and off and doesn't take up cargo space at the beginning when Cargo space is very limited? Or even just equipping a DC as standard in the noobwinder optional internal slots and thus allowing the masochists, I mean the skilled commanders, the option of selling it to free up space? It's the wrong way round now as it only becomes viable to own a DC in the later game, by which point you have mastered docking. Frontier must lose a lot of new players this way.
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No. Just no. The docking computer should take up cargo space and should cost a substantial (for a newbie) sum. Part of the Elite franchise is learning how to dock with a spinning station. In the original (well, Elite Plus, anyway), the docking computer cost 3500 credits. Not so bad, right? Sure; until you remember you started with 100 credits, not 1000. Take away the requirement of having to learn how to dock with a spinning station and it's just not Elite.

And the docking computer is meant as a convenience only. And it doesn't work right all the time. Much like the Tesla autopilot, it can get confused. When it does, you'd better be at your keyboard or you'll be facing a rebuy screen.
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
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I'm getting this view quite often lately.
 

WillFrog

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jimbeau1571 said:
I have a DC on my Anaconda just for ease really. But i keep the speed up going through the toaster and then throttle back once through. This way it saves the 'Waiting to Dock' happening outside the station which is a pain.:D
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Yes, this. I land all my other ships manually, but in the Anaconda getting through the entrance and then zeroing the throttle and letting the DC find the pad saves an awful lot of faffing about. It's been 99.9% reliable, except for that one time it decided to hump the tower at an engineer base.

Oh and don't kill the throttle when you're IN the slot because it rolls to reorient and gets jammed. That was ... not a good day. :rolleyes:
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
It will, most of the time. Sometimes this happens:

[VIDEO=youtube;QTwMNwx7iqM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTwMNwx7iqM[/VIDEO]

Not very often though.

And the use of The Blue Danube Waltz is an homage to 2001 : A Space Odyssey

[video=youtube;GdrqeAKNLM8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdrqeAKNLM8[/video]
 
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Stealthie

Stealthie
I think my Docking Computer might be a "Friday afternoon special".

Last time it embarrassed me I was docking at Hellean Ring, fired-up the DC, went to grab some biscuits and when I got back my ship was gently pecking at the back side of the coriolis station. [big grin]

I actually rather like that it's not perfect.
Sure, it's useful but it's just a tool and it's still up to the pilot to ensure everything goes according to plan.
 

Tryst

Tryst
Stealthie said:
Last time it embarrassed me I was docking at Hellean Ring, fired-up the DC, went to grab some biscuits and when I got back my ship was gently pecking at the back side of the coriolis station. [big grin]
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Meanwhile, the Blue Danube music gets replaced with this:
[video=youtube;06DwuWN5guc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06DwuWN5guc[/video]
 
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