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Docking a Capital Ship

Dec 11, 2012 SilentWave link
I'm on the test server now, and I took a mission where you are slapped into the captain's chair of an M-class, so I wonder, how am I supposed to dock with a station? I'm unable to finagle my way into the regular docking bay, so what do I do?

I ended up using /explode, but can we dock our capital ships with stations? Thanks, and sorry for the seemingly newbie question; I've forgotten almost everything about the game's slash-commands and am not up to speed on the latest station ownership and such.
Dec 11, 2012 incarnate link
Hey SilentWave, welcome back.

There's a proper capship station in Latos M7. However, it can be difficult to find without a particular item that is handed out as part of a mission, giving the owner the "S" icon on their radar to find the station in the fog.

The capship station is considered a "prototype" by me, which is part of why they haven't been rolled out to a lot of locations yet. I still want to re-work the asset, and Capships in general are still kind of "early".

We will eventually have capship-scale stations in every major capitol, or thereabouts.
Dec 11, 2012 Alloh link
We will eventually have capship-scale stations in every major capitol, or thereabouts.

Yessss!!! Finally!!! Space Stations that serve capships will become larger than capships... so people can live in without have to be gzip'd and packed... :)
Dec 12, 2012 PaKettle link
Just pkzip for alloh :P

So anything less then 5 years old is "early" in its development?
Dec 17, 2012 SilentWave link
I was thinking in terms of the PCC and the test server, so it made sense to me, PaKettle.

Thanks, I'll try to find it.
Dec 17, 2012 greenwall link
" it can be difficult to find without a particular item"

that's a bit of an understatement :)
Dec 17, 2012 PaKettle link
Start the reactor.... Free Mars!
Dec 20, 2012 abortretryfail link
Might be worth throwing some extra capship stations in on the test server to see how things work. At least that way we can test stuff and provide feedback without flying across the LONGEST sector in the game with the SLOWEST ship in the game every single time...