Edit: Perhaps if I can dock this fast I should get a special vouncher?
If you dock at that speed, you'll create your very own special docking port.. but on the opposite side of the station, and looking more than a little tattered around the edges..
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Have you ever docked at a Rock Hermit on Torus drive? I have managed it once by accident, gave a quite a start
I have tried to do it on purpose a few times. Most often I "frame rate" right through it but also have received a Darwin award a few times as well
The ultimate prize would be at a Salvage Gang or Hacker Outpost with the long tunnel into it. Yet to manage that one though.
I have only crashed into a Rock Hermit with the Torus Drive. I have managed to dock at a Salvage Gang base with Injectors on once but most times I turn into, as Smivs put it, gravel...
For your information: This whole idea of Safe Docking (and hence GalCop Rewards) started as a joke after a character in one of Okti's OXPs was known for docking on injectors (though at the time I thought it was Okti himself that was doing it) and I came up with the idea of having a surprise for someone docking in that way. Initially I was going to have the player crash and explode if you went too fast. But it's developed considerably from there.
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For your information: This whole idea of Safe Docking (and hence GalCop Rewards) started as a joke after a character in one of Okti's OXPs was known for docking on injectors (though at the time I thought it was Okti himself that was doing it) and I came up with the idea of having a surprise for someone docking in that way. Initially I was going to have the player crash and explode if you went too fast. But it's developed considerably from there.
Docking on injectors is half the fun of a manual docking.
Take an idea from one person and twist or modify it in a different way as a return suggestion so another person can see a part of it that can apply to the oxp they are working on.
Did I get the speed thing right (browsed briefly your code & Wiki page):
Docking an Anaconda (max_speed of 140 = 0.14 LM) @ half speed would give you "Very Good" rating?
And docking a Python (max_speed of 200 = 0.20 LM) @ exactly half speed would give "Ok" rating, while going in just a tad slower would give "Good" rating?
Adder @ half speed would be "Ok", but Cobra mk I @ half speed would be "Poor"?
That sounds about right. It's based on absolute speeds so it is the same speed for all ships. Only because each ship can have different max speed you will have to learn the specific fraction for your ship yourself and likely have to re-learn it again if you change ship. If you install the latest version of OXPConfig2 you can turn on the arrival speed message on docking. (Yes I do know that's after the fact but I am not going to make it too easy for you now )
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