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[...] So how does this apply to the Nuit which Switeck has been writing about ? [...] Well, from what I can tell, a common denominator would be the normals being reverted (i.e. pointing inwards for the station, and outwards for the dock), I just confirmed this for the Nuit station. ...stuff... Alas...

hiran wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:32 am

Interesting idea.

If the dock is intended to be used by freighters it should be a bit wider. Yes actually there was the request to dock outside.

Why a moving wall so close to the dock? What is it's purpose?

cos it looked cool at the time.

BTW, I tried to document what I understood from the docking procedure. https://ooliteproject.github.io/oolite/interfaceDockEntity.html#a55e38446a4ebccf45cffe9857e24f59c What do the magic numbers 10000, 5000, 12500 etc mean? are they not the relevant distances, as per algorithm note 3? so if it's 10...

i think it's possible you could get an NPC to dock at the Nuit struts, for eye candy; patrolAIs etc seem to direct a ship to a point and i see there's a "gotowaypointAI" - possibly we could specify a point at the end of the dock arm and have a ship fly there? aligning it logically is, i'd ...

having been blatted by exiting ships on occasion i can confirm very bad timing can sometimes end if your destruction - i've been metres from approach when a Viper materialised and i blew up a microsecond later. i think we need more details about this Hathor incident.

not sure how that happens, the model should have the dock box where it should be. if you CAN dock there it surely means you're in far enough for the process to register and therefore sometimes [?] hitting something before it doesn't make sense?

perhaps the Tech Level is a general/averaged rating? after all things vary even in countries - China or India for example, there's huge areas of absolute poverty and there are areas of high tech production. C&M might have high-tech production plants based in low tech areas for the cheap labour c...

holy crap mate, you put in some effort there! much appreciated

thank you

anyone taken a Poltergeist for a spin?

Yeah, as mentioned in my initial post i found the autodock was about to go catastrophically wrong and had to quickly abort - i don't know how it works, i think the lore was that you had to fly to the buoy to make the approach, is it looking for something like that? it should be no real prob to manua...

i was wondering about trying to get the station to only sell II ships, but as per other posts i found too much of my limited spare time getting eaten up by fighting w/ the scripts and stuff. it was also supposed to have a little more eye candy in that i wanted random ships on the landing pads/servi...

to the updates, i'm easy. i think the category could be left as a kinda "index", and the II page left too w/ the nex oxp added under "stations". i'll try and write up a bit lore to pad things out, when i get a spare few minutes. you're better at this sort of thing so, so i'm hap...

Griff wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:25 pm

That's amazing work KW, what a stunning bit of design and texturing!
Nice screenshot cbr, really captures the scale of the station!
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thank you sir

to the updates, i'm easy. i think the category could be left as a kinda "index", and the II page left too w/ the nex oxp added under "stations". i'll try and write up a bit lore to pad things out, when i get a spare few minutes. you're better at this sort of thing so, so i'm happ...

Thank you for the kind comments :-) As mentioned i'm happy for people to tinker - if someone wants to take out my Cebior-specific script and make so the station appears in, say, high tech places, that's cool ~ it's always possible that given II is a massive global power, stations would spring up in ...