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QCS
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The main difficulty with these is that station docking and launch traffic control depends on the NPC ships following the approach pattern. The station sends out the instructions for the next point in the docking approach, and they fly to it. This also allows multiple ships to be going through the approach pattern at once.QCS wrote:1) Replacing the Docking AI by a more efficient one, in the means of a rather cheap software upgrade (nevertheless an 'item' in the store).
2) Have another upgrade item for the improved Docking software, this time in hardware. It enables the player ship to transmit improved docking instructions to targetted (ident target) NPC ships and ask them to use those instructions instead.
That would work with ships using the old plist AIs, but if you do that with a JS AI ship you'll be potentially leaving it in a bad state should it cancel the docking routine for whatever reason. Still not impossible, but you'll need to be very careful here.QCS wrote:This item may also have another indirect slight improvement onboard: by accepting the improved instructions, technically we set a new AI.
Well, if you think you're up to it, why not try to do this in the Trunk code itself? If you succeed, the devs would be more than happy to incorporate your patch.QCS wrote:Replacing the Docking AI by a more efficient one