Three ways the docking comptuer can kill you
Now I should have video captured this but, I'm lazy and frankly too much work. With all the "the docking computer killed me" posts, I figured "hey lets see how!" but that won't help them, because they tend to be the types to fly without insurance too.
Anyways way #1.
Missed docking pad. Occasionally the ship will slip to the side before the docking lock on the pad happens. Your ship will then slide to the side of the pad and start to damage itself.
Solution: Hit the throttle a bit to get control back from the computer and land manually.
Way #2.
Won't enter station at a timely manner. This is the rarest of the faults but it happens. I decided to take over when the landing timer hit 3 minutes and start over. Perhaps due to traffic, there are times your ship simply won't go into the mail slot. This could kill you if it finally does and the timer runs out. Solution, request a new docking slot and try again.
Way #3.
This is the oddest one to me. Sometimes it just stopped and acts almost like the docking tutorial. I usually get this one right after it enter the slot but its happened even right above the pad. It goes from "autodock in progress" to "approach landing pad". It would kill you because you foolishly went afk and ran out of time. Solution, just land like normal you lazy slob.
Did I mention I was bored? Anyways, there you have it, three unique ways the docking computer can kill you. I hope in the future they add more unique and interesting ways
