Oolite Bulletins

Fritz wrote:

That would mean about half an hour waiting at Laxema... and you couldn't spend the time watching other ships...

<grins> Pipe a vid of 'em in to watch... or create a cut-scene as a distraction.

Fritz wrote:

Is there a reason for this? If I want to dock, the ships waiting to launch are released first.

There's a special rule for the player docking manually. When the player uses the docking computer to carry out a standard docking, they dock before launches just as NPCs do.