Docking with hermit

drink · Post by **drink** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:10 pm

Docking with a hermit in my python resulted in what appeared to be my almost-destruction before I docked. Shields decreased rapidly as if I were crashing. It seems like I managed to dock before I was totally destroyed. This was using the docking computer from a nice long distance and I was completely on-center.

running 1.65 on windows xp

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:59 pm

the docking computer is rather errr... error-prone. lots of scraping off paint or worse oftentimes.

Also, when it looks you're exactly centered, you're not, your cockpit is off centre, and as a result so is your POV... so with bigger ships you have to take that into account...

try insta-dock, to not run the risk of killing yourself (shift-D)

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:32 pm

I find that hermits are a lot trickier to dock with than stations.

Going as straight as I can, I almost always scrape the paintwork in a Cobra III, and sometimes even lose cargo/equipment.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:09 pm

You do? I always felt it was more easy, that the 'hole' was bigger...

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:24 pm

I'm with Wiggy on this one, rock hermits used to be easier but now they have some sort of canopy above the docking bay. You used to be able to approach from any angle and then at dead slow manouvre into the correct alignment, I tend to jump out of my seat these days when the sides scrape doing it this way now.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:03 pm

I can honestly say that scraping sound doesn't bother me anymore. I'm just glad Oolite doesn't have a PAINT_DAMAGE rating otherwise I'd be in negative figures. I have never manually docked and had full shields afterwards...

Captain Hesperus
"I don't know what hurts more, the sound the hull makes when it strikes the side of the docking bay, or the noise the paintshop guy makes when I ask him 'How much for a re-spray?'."

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:45 pm

Captain Hesperus wrote:
I can honestly say that scraping sound doesn't bother me anymore. I'm just glad Oolite doesn't have a PAINT_DAMAGE rating otherwise I'd be in negative figures. I have never manually docked and had full shields afterwards...

IIRC damage to your shields is monitored somewhere within the workings, hence the regular demands for a maintenance overhaul

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:10 am

Rxke wrote:
You do? I always felt it was more easy, that the 'hole' was bigger...

"Never even touched the sides." (Oooerrr, missus.)

However, taking into account Rxke's point about the POV seems to improve matters.
It's also better if you keep the strut at 3 or 9 o clock.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:14 pm

TGHC wrote:
IIRC damage to your shields is monitored somewhere within the workings, hence the regular demands for a maintenance overhaul

???

Oh, that funny message in orange that I always am never able to afford on the F3 screen!

Captain Hesperus
"In my book that's known as 'unnecessary expenditure'."

GoreLeech · Post by **GoreLeech** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:59 pm

xD *o bugger gotta dock with that hermit with my PcC* *BOOM* ......yah i usually just dock with speed, instead of taking the scenic view.....sure does come in handy when that Imp Cruiser is coming after me, and i dock like 2km's out....i just wish that the stations didnt have the ability to not give me docking instructions......after all it IS my computer.....but, this gives me an idea for a new item to buy.....Flight Plans! for a rather exorbitant price you could buy the flight plan for the system....possibly from the WitchPoint beacon, something that gives you the quickest route to the station (its for noobs, not pirates like me! *Yarrharr!)