SkyCore Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 My capital ship has grown far to large to dock with stations anymore. So i suggest a new ship part: the umbilical dock. A retractable, flexible, and safe way to dock from up to a kilometer away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WSY Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 A kilometer away??? I think at that point you would be using smaller ships to ferry goods/supplies back and forth. I am not sure of the scaling but I know bigger stations with bigger ships, you see the docks much sooner and I do not have problems docking, however I slide sideways into dock due to the shape of my ship. I have my deceleration at the right point where within 10k I just have to ensure my speed in 100ms increments matches count of km distance. This curves as I slow down, but I end up reaching 0 at about 0.23 and can manually move the rest of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SkyCore Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 A kilometer away??? Energy production without resource destruction, unlimited ammo for guns, faster than light travel... but you think a km long umbilical is absurd? As for the shuttling idea, i thinks thats a great idea as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WSY Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Rule of cool doesn't apply to 1km umbilical 8) At least not until we have actual attached docking would be fun. However a transporter module block or upgrade to increase dock range would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rinart73 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Until the real docking will be implemented (I doubt that this will happen soon), there is an idea of using the same docking port that we use for stations. And if you have it installed just trade using this "transport beam", which is currently used for trading with NPC ships. Wasting an upgrade slot doesn't feel like a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WSY Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Your probably right on the upgrade, I swap them out so often I forget it's not really meant to be used that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Uthael Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 The distance is calculated from the docking block to the nearest point on your ship. I've seen people using antenas made of hologram block. Put it on the nose of the ship. Also, cheap if it gets destroyed. Physical docking is planned. Shame to waste development time on something in-between while there are workarounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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My capital ship has grown far to large to dock with stations anymore. So i suggest a new ship part: the umbilical dock. A retractable, flexible, and safe way to dock from up to a kilometer away.
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