It is possible to die as you dock these days. if rocekts/explosives hit teh station within 1 second of you docking, you can be killed. I have noticed this from pirating and saw it 1st person today. Just have someone chase you to the station while firing rockets really fast and close up. you'll see what happens.

So what happens?
Something that can be called a bug?

so what happens? you die after you hit activate in the hanger. your ship dissapers on other people's screen, but if rockets go off in the tiny ammount of timw, you die and your cargo is left outside the station. you go back to your home station. It's like there is a delay of a second or 2 after you hit activate in the hanger before you're actualy in the station. during those few seconds, you're very, very killable.

What some people most likely will say:

Then don't dock idiot!

I wanted to beat others to saying that ;-)

A second is pretty long. Are you sure it's a full second, or is that a figure of speech? I've taken damage under similar circumstances, but they were situations where the rockets were right on me as I docked. I assumed that the explosion sounds were delayed very slightly by the act of docking.

it's at least a second.

it's based on how long it takes for the packet to get from your machine to the server, and after hitting Activate but before the server receives it, a death can come to you.
Not really a whole lot can be done to prevent that.

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