Why the docking computer unable to undock?

Mendaharin Tusca

Mendaharin Tusca
Considering how fast and efficient the dockputer is nowadays (mostly) and with all the kamikazes just waiting to pounce, a docking/undocking computer might not be too bad really. Not to mention for landing at high-G planets :)
 

Arry

Arry
I have said it before: I am still waiting for my troop of elephants to carry me across the the station and gently push my ship out of the mail slot. I paid for such things in the future.

Maybe we could engineer the DC to do the launching for us and while we are at it, lets engineer the Advanced scanner, to scan everything, instead of having to still visit each body in a system and scan them separately.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
GraXXoR said:
Requires an extra class 1 internal modules weighing a tonne to calculate the reverse algorthm.
The fact that we can do it in 2017 with a crappy $30 computer game is besides the point.
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You do realise ED doesnt actually control real spaceships, right? I mean, with that reasoning you might as well wondering what the big deal about going to mars is: with enough rank you can fly there in a minute from earth. :)
 

Adept Geraden

Adept Geraden
I recently bought a docking computer for my Anaconda, because I'll be damned if I can get the damned thing OUT of the mail slot. Imagine my disappointment when I realised that the docking computer is true to its name.
 

Minonian

Banned
Minonian
Imo said:
To be honest I think Frontier never liked the idea of automatic moving player vessels in Elite Dangerous and that is why we did not get a auto pilot. The only reason why Elite Dangerous got a docking computer was probably because we had one in the classic Elite back in 1984. Nethertheless Frontier proved their unhappyness with automatic flight in Elite Dangerous by limiting the docking computer start to 7.5 km from starport. In the classic Elite you were able to activate the docking computer maybe 50 km from starport. The dockim music increased in lengh a lot, but the working range dropped near zero. Here you see the classic docking computer working:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk
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In 2 and 3 it was more refined and capable to home to the planet and the starport from any part of the system, but in there you did not had supercruise, which dropped out next to the target, but time acceleration.
 

NW3

NW3
GTwannabe said:
Same reason the docking computer likes to sit outside the station "waiting in queue" when there isn't a single ship on radar and traffic control cheefully reports "the way ahead is clear" when a Beluga and T-9 are wedged in the slot.
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That was me. Sorry for the hang-up. I thought I could beat the Beluga though the slot, but we got wedged tight. I thought I was a goner, but apparently the station aimed for the larger target and the Beluga exploded first and I boosted out of there with only 48K cr of damage. I was both unlucky and very lucky that day. :D
 
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