The Docking Computer thread.
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Legacy_LuckyLuke
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Just don't use it if module health is below 70% or all manner of strange things may occur...
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You can turn silent running on before starting the DC, but you will overheat and none of the controls work until you disable the DC again.
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You can turn silent running on before starting the DC, but you will overheat and none of the controls work until you disable the DC again.
What does "as intended" have to do with anything what you said?
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It's intended to be an aid to docking, to assist you in your business. Not to take over the piloting for you. You still need to be there to make the decision of whether or not to allow it to continue to dock or to take back manual control. From what I've seen, the developers never intended the docking computer to operate unsupervised by a human pilot.
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This was the only gripe I had with the DC in my T6.
I was actually quite impressed with it and especially when smuggling you can approach the letterbox/outpost at top speed and then turn it on at the last second.
It always manages to land quicker( and find the pad!) than when I land using my own skills (or lack of).
I use the DC for the last few meters to the pads, cause i am smuggling most of the time i have to hurry through the mail slot ending with nose at the end of the stations. The way back to the pad could be done by the DC. I am only bothered by the 1km issue at the outposts... sometimes there are sec-ships and if you don't turn the DC off and fly direct to the pad, the DC kicks in and goes up to 1km and back down.
Teached me how to land manually better than before... ;-)
Works well but I encountered some erratic behaviour in a Clipper when activating it above 5 km. distance. Below seems to be fine but above that mark it mostly boosted towards the station and smacked the Clipper often enough into the outer walls of the station...
Works well but I encountered some erratic behaviour in a Clipper when activating it above 5 km. distance. Below seems to be fine but above that mark it mostly boosted towards the station and smacked the Clipper often enough into the outer walls of the station...
You can turn on silent running while the docking computer is docking. I have done it. The only worry is, the docking computer won't dock fast enough, but if you are smuggling and don't want to get scanned (and that's why you're using silent running), you can turn off silent running once you're through the letterbox.
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It takes total control - leaving you only on/off switch (in a manner of speaking) to decide anything. Not going to discuss their intentions w/o precise quotes from devtalk however, without such it's just baseless speculation.
My docking computer was damaged the other day. I actually did a reboot/repair rather than dock manually. #lazycommander
So this. All those times I hot-docked avoiding scans while riding clean have really paid off for doing major drug and firearm smuggling runs now that I ride dirty.
What the hell is this Docking Computer you speak of? Sounds like voodoo magic to me.
Peasants
Peasants
What the hell is this Docking Computer you speak of? Sounds like voodoo magic to me.
Peasants
A lot of the people who use a DC are actually well-off veterans. They don't bother with such uncouth poor-man maneuvers such as making their starship touch a station full of near-groundlings. Probably don't offload their own cargo bays either.
Us peasants are the ones still actually operating all the ship controls ourselves.
It would have been a correct definition if it was indeed possible to stop it at anytime sending any command (pitch / roll / yaw / slight acceleration, etc), but as you can only stop it by speeding up ... it more or less "fire and forget" until it's ended ...
The DC once tried to kill me. It did its job well approaching the station, but got me right at the vertical of the landing pad like 200m away speeding toward it, but not correcting to landing position at the last moment.... thanks to my shields I only took 20% damage, else I would have died.
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A lot of the people who use a DC are actually well-off veterans. They don't bother with such uncouth poor-man maneuvers such as making their starship touch a station full of near-groundlings. Probably don't offload their own cargo bays either.
Us peasants are the ones still actually operating all the ship controls ourselves.
Time = Credits I ain't got time to sit back n watch the view. I got stuff to do
I am of course just bein' light hearted ya kna
Time = Credits I ain't got time to sit back n watch the view. I got stuff to do
I am of course just bein' light hearted ya kna
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