X3 like problems with Ai need help

Hello fellow commanders,

I need your help with some aspects of the game's AI that is behaving a bit like X3.

Last night I got to the point where I saved up enough credits by space trucking in my Sidewinder to buy a Hauler. I accepted a mission to deliver some cargo and flew off to another system to pick it up in my new hauler.

The problem I have started when I requested docking rights at a large orbis/corolis type star port. I received docking permission to land on a pad and I proceeded into the station to dock. I followed all the correct landing procedures (correct pad, correct approach, landing gear down etc) but the game bugged out and would not confirm my final approach nor allow me to land. No mater what I did, the mini landing game/landing radar thing would not appear. Eventually I ran out of landing time so I tried to leave the station and request a new landing permission, but the station declared me as a trespasser and gave me way too short a time to get out of the station. The station then proceeded to blow up my ship and I lost many hours of work (50k+) through no fault of my own.

I was very frustrated with the game's AI at this point so I gave up playing the game for the night. Tonight, I logged back into the game with the intention of sorting things out. I paid my insurance to get my hauler back (less 30k worth of cargo which was destroyed). I checked the local law bulletin board thing and saw that I had no bounty no fines, no criminal record etc etc Nothing, ALL CLEAR. So I launched, left the station and aligned to the next system. Before I could do anything else my ship was scanned by the security ships and destroyed. This happened twice in a row. I have no idea why this is happening. The game is now unplayable for me as I am camped in the station by the stations own security ships and I am near bankrupt.

When I look to the reputation panel on the right of my ship it shows my reputation with a little red arrow and something about a bounty on me. Why do I have a bounty? Why can I not clear this bounty in the station? Why do I even have a bounty, it's not my fault the game's AI bugged out and my ship was destroyed because the game has a serious bug with ship landing. Right now I don't think I can play the game with a broken X3 like AI. Any help would be most welcome.
 
Hello fellow commanders,

I need your help with some aspects of the game's AI that is behaving a bit like X3.

Last night I got to the point where I saved up enough credits by space trucking in my Sidewinder to buy a Hauler. I accepted a mission to deliver some cargo and flew off to another system to pick it up in my new hauler.

The problem I have started when I requested docking rights at a large orbis/corolis type star port. I received docking permission to land on a pad and I proceeded into the station to dock. I followed all the correct landing procedures (correct pad, correct approach, landing gear down etc) but the game bugged out and would not confirm my final approach nor allow me to land. No mater what I did, the mini landing game/landing radar thing would not appear. Eventually I ran out of landing time so I tried to leave the station and request a new landing permission, but the station declared me as a trespasser and gave me way too short a time to get out of the station. The station then proceeded to blow up my ship and I lost many hours of work (50k+) through no fault of my own.

I was very frustrated with the game's AI at this point so I gave up playing the game for the night. Tonight, I logged back into the game with the intention of sorting things out. I paid my insurance to get my hauler back (less 30k worth of cargo which was destroyed). I checked the local law bulletin board thing and saw that I had no bounty no fines, no criminal record etc etc Nothing, ALL CLEAR. So I launched, left the station and aligned to the next system. Before I could do anything else my ship was scanned by the security ships and destroyed. This happened twice in a row. I have no idea why this is happening. The game is now unplayable for me as I am camped in the station by the stations own security ships and I am near bankrupt.

When I look to the reputation panel on the right of my ship it shows my reputation with a little red arrow and something about a bounty on me. Why do I have a bounty? Why can I not clear this bounty in the station? Why do I even have a bounty, it's not my fault the game's AI bugged out and my ship was destroyed because the game has a serious bug with ship landing. Right now I don't think I can play the game with a broken X3 like AI. Any help would be most welcome.


its not the ai its you

you were backwards on the pad

in future turn around or cancel docking, leave, then come back again.

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you're wanted because you loitered for 10 minutes in the docking bay. i usually request permissions, land in under a minute.

pretty funny that you're in a hauler. buy a heatsink and divert power to engines with the up arrow. get to the edge of the station and boost as fast as you can as though you're flying along the death star trench, right along the BODY OF THE STATION.

this way you'll be cool enough to appear as nothing/just a wake and you'll also be able to use the station itself to further hide yourself.

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future ref: stations aren't for dillying

this is the problem with betas. people always play it then say OOH THIS IS A BUG OMG when they're actually just facing backwards
 
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I've had the same issue yesterday and no matter the facing it just doesn't show up. To fix this cancel your docking permission and ask for a new one.
 
I was NOT backwards on the pad. The bug was I did not even get the landing mini game to work. It did not come up at all. I did not get 10 minute to leave, I got less than 60 seconds and that's why I was destroyed before I could even get out the main door. I did try the cancel docking and leave routine. The game bugged out on me and now I can't even leave the station without it destroying me.
 
I was NOT backwards on the pad. The bug was I did not even get the landing mini game to work. It did not come up at all. I did not get 10 minute to leave, I got less than 60 seconds and that's why I was destroyed before I could even get out the main door. I did try the cancel docking and leave routine. The game bugged out on me and now I can't even leave the station without it destroying me.

That might have happened if another ship has took off from the same landing pad that you are to land. In this case I fly out of the station, cancel the docking request and send a new one.
 
Thanks, I did try that as I have played with landing backwards and reversing using the landing pad mini game many times before, but as you said northing I could do would bring the mini landing pad game up. When I cancelled the docking, the game gave me less than 60 seconds to leave the station and that's impossible. Now the game's security AI ships keep blowing me up every time I try to leave the station and the game is unplayable for me with this bug.

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No other ship was launching from the pad I was assigned to. I had a perfectly clear run to the pad, but the mini landing game would not show. I did cancel the docking but the game gave me only seconds to get out and I could not possibly get out of the station before it destroyed me. Now the station destroys me EVERY time I try to leave it, yet the station services show me as having No criminal record and no bounty, so I cant play the game at all with this bugged AI.
 
Sounds like a pretty bad bug. I guess your best bet might be to try getting out of the station in silent running mode. Switch off everything you don't need to get outside, weapons, shields etc and try to sneak away.
 
You might need to do it by sneaking in to another station to see if you do have a bounty with that faction or not.
 
How do you think I got the bounty in the first place? If the station dose not have a bounty on me then who dose? and Why is the station killing me. How do I find out who has the bounty on me and where do I have to go to clear it?
 
I don't know, that's the nature of bugs, they generally cause things that aren't expected.

Do you have red "wanted" writing at the right-side of your dashboard? Check your "contacts" in the station and see who you have to pay the fine to if it exists.
 
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If you cant dock, do not wait inside the docking bay for 10 minutes or abort the docking request while still inside the docking bay.
In my opinion if you do that i think you somewhat deserve to be destroyed.

They way to approach this is to, try to figure out whats wrong then solving it or just go out of the spacestation and request docking permission again.
If the glitch still is there when you re-request docking permission try to take a fast in and out of supercruise.
 
The station Contacts tab in station services shows me as clean, with no bounty. My ship's right hand side info panel under reputation, however, shows me with a bounty from <Dormant>? I don't know who or what <Dormant> is or how I can clear this bounty. So far the station I am in kills me every time I try to exit it.

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I don't know how to submit a ticket yet. I did post in support sub forum.
 
I'd probably just ticket this one and restart the game tbh. Do a little bit of exploring or cargo runs, sell the Freagle and you'll be back in the Hauler in no time.
 
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