Docking that is delightful

[Cholmondely]

Just to flag up the following docking experiences as being better than average:


Aesthetics - the actual docking is quite an experience compared to docking at other stations (such as the tunnel sequence)
1) Riredi's Sodalite station
2) Anarchies' Salvage Gang
3) Killer Wolf's Nuit
4) Killer Wolf's Hathor
5) Colonization OXP (unfinished)
6) Amber Moon Chronicles OXP (unfinished)

Different/Interesting - once docked, the experience on the station is very different.
1) Galactic Navy bases
2) Taranis Corp HQ (music!)
3) Black Monk Monastery
4) HoOpy casino
5) Lave Academy
6) Space Bar
7) Royal Hunting Lodges (Feudal States)
HIMSN naval bases
9) Avernus Orbital (Coyote's Run)
10) SothisTC (Killer Wolf & then rejigged by Spara)


Are there any others which I've missed?

Updated (July 2022) to add in Hathor & Cody's Avernus Orbital

[Old Murgh]

Are there any others which I've missed?

You don''t rate the between-spokes approach to a Torus?

[Cody]

You don''t rate the between-spokes approach to a Torus?

Hit the injectors, straight through between the spokes, flip the ship and dock!

Are there any others which I've missed?

Avernus Orbital (Coyote's Run).

[Old Murgh]

Hit the injectors, straight through between the spokes, flip the ship and dock!

That's life lived on the edge!

This move actually needs a name..
.. Lancin'

[Cholmondely]

Are there any others which I've missed?

Avernus Orbital (Coyote's Run).

Aesthetics? OR Different/Interesting?

[Cody]

The station itself is unique, and its restaurant menu is cool - I suppose you'd call it ambience.

[Cholmondely]

The station itself is unique, and its restaurant menu is cool - I suppose you'd call it ambience.

Aesthetics - the actual docking is quite an experience compared to docking at other stations (the tunnel sequence, basically)
1) Riredi's Sodalite station
2) Anarchies' Salvage Gang
3) Killer Wolf's Nuit

Different/Interesting - once docked, the experience on the station is very different.
1) Galactic Navy bases
2) Taranis Corp HQ (music!)
3) Black Monk Monastery
4) HoOpy casino
5) Lave Academy
6) Space Bar
7) Royal Hunting Lodges (Feudal States)
HIMSN bases

[Cody]

<shrugs>

[Killer Wolf]

the salvage gangs and hacker asteroids have been beautifully updated - love the entrance tunnels, and the sweeping lights.

one issue - does anyone else get Hognoses stuck outside the entrance, vibrating up and down very gently? i find you have to creep up very slowly behind them to prompt them into finishing the dock.

[Switeck]

Just to flag up the following docking experiences as being better than average:

Aesthetics
3) Killer Wolf's Nuit

While I like the unique appearance of Killer Wolf's Nuit...there's a graphical glitch that kicks in while docking that causes you to see through much of the structure.

The docking port being right next to a spinning platform/hub also makes for low margin for error for bigger ships like Anacondas and Boa 2's.
That I've died a couple times because of that hasn't been delightful.

For another less-delightful problem:
Superhub station has a weird asymmetry - on the end closer to the engine pods, don't approach that exit from the sides even semi-close to the edge or your ship could be severely damaged or destroyed by invisible parts of the model.

[Killer Wolf]

i'd say the Hathor is a better experience, from years of OXPing. Hopefully the scrolly message scripty thing still works.
Nuit was my first station. haven't got it installed though, can you expand on this glitch??

[Cholmondely]

i'd say the Hathor is a better experience, from years of OXPing. Hopefully the scrolly message scripty thing still works.
Nuit was my first station. haven't got it installed though, can you expand on this glitch??

Apologies, I don't understand why I left Hathor off the list. Old age? Senility? Dying brain cells?

[Switeck]

Nuit was my first station. haven't got it installed though, can you expand on this glitch??

At the closest approach, while entering the docking port "room", the walls sometimes vanish letting me see into/through the Nuit station model.

[montana05]

Agreed, the dock isn't in the correct position. I intended to change that with the next release, but I still have Bulk Haulers pending, Unfortunately I currently only got 1 - 2 h a day to work on Oolite.