Sorry, this is related to a bug that you already know about, but just thought I would post here.

Make it harder to dock. Sure, keep the autodock feature that was introduced a long time ago but make people actually have to fly into a docking bay to dock! The way it works right now is basically fly anywhere near a docking bay and you are golden. I think not only is this bad but also you are calling players stupid.

I know I can make a docking bay out from (space meters) 1000m away even when using many of the mobile devices I use. I also know I can just boost into the general location of one of these docks and land everytime. This is BS and you all know it.

I propose that the docking space be reduced, so that not only do you have to actually fly into a docking bay, that you have to wait in line and it takes a few moments to dock. Even if it is only 5 seconds, make a delay.

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You could put a message on screen like "docking in 5 4 3 2 1" kind of thing? Make this only for stations, so it gives capships even more use.

+1

+1

+1 to fixing the docking bay overextension issue

-1 to arbitrarily delaying docking by X seconds

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+1

A timer is dumb, but yeah being able to fly past a dock at 225m/s in a direction not entering and still docking is dumb, you should have to touch the back of the wall at minimum.

Adjusting the docking bays is fine by me.

But NO WAY and a BIG -1 to a stupid timer. I can't be arsed to wait 5 seconds everytime I dock. Imagine I give somebody a load of Ultra Charge Cells (sometimes hand out 500+) to people and have to wait every damn trip. No thanks. I'll +1 that if we get a proper trading system for items and ships.

trading would indeed become a nasty spacebear with using a dock timer; but im okay with adjusting the docking range. since the docking range is just a cube-shaped hit box (if I remember you saying from some other similar topic), can we just shorten it a few increments until these guys are satisfied?

At the same time, is it really that big of a deal? I haven't seen or heard of anyone using it to the annoyance of another player, so...

Yeah, the timer thing was an after thought, and after thinking about it, it's dumb. But I'm not removing it from the opening post cos I hate when people do that. But the way it works right now is simply wrong. You can basically run in the general direction of a docking bay and instadock. You should at least have to go inside it.

Sure Luxen, it is not a big issue, and not something that is game breaking or anything like that, but it does take a little bit away from a chase when all a victim has to do is slam into the outsides of the docking bays to actually dock. I mean, why have bays at all if you can dock from a few hundred (in game) m in front of them. Or the top. Or the Bottom. Or the sides...

I don't really follow this. I already said the current collision box is too big, and that we will look into it. That's a bug, it doesn't require an additional "suggestion".

I am not going to add a timer for no reason.