Landing in Station

[Big Dog]

So in the Training Mission Docking and Landing I am able enter the station. However, landing on the correct Pad is impossible. I really do not care if somneone comes along and says they can do this.

The game is frustratingly stupid in this area. No Landing Pad clearly marked. Ship flight controls are awful. Get a clue game developers use an auto-dock feature. Make the game enjoyable for us poor neglected customers.

I have made numerous efforts to view You Tube videos, numerous practice runs. And you know what it ain't worth the effort. And guess what happens when a game becomes too difficult I stop playing it and will not recommend it. There is absolutely no need for this mind numbing stupid effort involved for the player to land the ship in the base.

Request auto-dock click and it should be done so game play can continue.

[Fork_Q2]

There already is an auto-dock component for your ship. You'll need to buy it and outfit it.

[Seras Lain]

just make good use of all of your controls, if you need to go left or right then go there, make sure to move down a little as you approach the landing spot on the pad, remember to press L to deploy your landing gear a little while before you land as it takes time for the landing gear to deploy... keep in mind you have to land somewhere before you can outfit your ship with an auto-dock component

[Aegix Drakan]

What controls are you using, keyboard or controller?

If it's controller, I can tell you what I use that I find helps.

Once you have the right setup (that uses lots of thrusters for precision movement), it's a snap to land.

(And the platforms ARE marked by big glowy numbers above them)

[Kavea]

Originally posted by Big Dog:

No Landing Pad clearly marked.

Pads are marked by number and your pad appears as a blue dot on your compass, it is very clearly marked.

[ZD_Lorton]

If you are using a keyboard, to go down to the pad is "F" my husband just informed me and "R" raises it, was having same issue and driving me crazy also. I can't wait for my flight gear to get here tomorrow so no more KB and Mouse, but in the mean time, seeing all that my husband is doing on the game, I am so excited to get going on it, that I am going to do training as much as possible.

[Menma]

git gud

[Arya]

There's always somebody who Pushes the door with Pull on it.

[Big Dog]

Ah, well I knew I would not get very far with this. So< I will describe exactly what I eperience when trying to land.

I use keyboard and mouse. I have reviewed the tutorials YouTube vids etc.

Problem allignment cannot get the fine tuning left and right (A or D keys) leave my nose at anm angle its uncorrectable. I never get the large blue ring indicating correct allignment. Also once my nose hits the number the lighting designating the pad disappears. So its as have this trainging mission removes my designated pad so.. landing correctly is impossible.

What sense does it make to write with so much difficulty that the basic landing the craft cannot be accomplished?

Why put off your customers this way? I pay goos money for a game and suffers severe game desdign flaws.

Suggestioin end this stupidity for us poor customers trying to enjoy this crap we paid for with a flippin easy peasy to use auto-dock!!!!

Good grief already Devs fix your mess.

[['w']]

use your thrusters, and yaw besides roll and pitch. throttle down. start the tutorial where you fight in the asteroid field and try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtD41MRibe4


i've now over 700hrs in this game, downloaded it now from frontier, playing it without steam. at the beginning I wasn't able to land, it took some time. and was really frustrating, now I'm at least good, sometimes I land like a god. sometimes I pay a fine.

[Fork_Q2]

Are you sure you're pointing the right direction, have you bound or aware of the Thurst keys?

[Seras Lain]

make sure to reverse with S and take things slow, if you're too far away from the pad then the landing helper will dissappear... Q and E will allow you to strafe if you have to go left or right

[Mr. Boombastic]

Here's an image of an outpost landing pad with the blast shields/ramp - the panels with the triangles. The rear of your ship should be facing the blast shields. That's both for outposts and starports. Docking at starports is easier because you always enter the starport facing the correct direction.
http://i.imgur.com/qs8Qqup.jpg
So, in this particular image the front of your ship should be facing towards the left side of the landing pad when you dock.
If you are facing the wrong way you still get the blue guide light but you won't be able to dock.

When I'm near the landing pad I tend to throttle to zero and then just use lateral & vertical thrusters to adjust my position, which I find is a much quicker method to dock.

But it does take practice. Once you have docked many times after a couple of months you maybe able to perform risky docking like:
https://youtu.be/N_47HgrF5AU

Also note that your Navigation Compass changes (& flashes) to show you exactly the location of the centre of the landing pad once a landing pad has been assigned. Except in the case of the rotating starports it changes (& flashes) when you enter the slot.
E.g. when the dot is full and at the bottom of the compass the centre of the landing pad is directly below you.

PS. Docking is tricky in the beginning but once you get used to your controls you'll look back at those early days and wonder why you found it so hard in the first place. I was very tentative/nervous the first couple of weeks.

[DownSouth05]

To the OP, Yes docking is a long curve to learn. I struggeled with it for days and almost gave up, then bought a docking computer and I was in heaven. Then my gaming partner insisted I take off the training wheels and I resisted and argued and he just shook his head and said NO. Then he started shooting at me and I fought back of course and I ended up dead allot anyway. lol

To make it short and to the point I took off the docking computer and struggeld with my landings and after a few days I got "ok" with it and now after over 1000 hours I can dock in less than 30 seconds. From asking for landing rights to locking down on the pad. And my partner is no longer on the couch lol

You obviously are getting into the slot with no issues.

When you get your docking bay assignment look at the target reticle. NOT on your HUD, its to the left of your radar display. Its the white circle with the white dot. That white dot is where your docking bay is. If its solid its in front of your and if its hollow its behind you.

You want to rotate your ship so that white dot is below you at 6 o'clock and lined up on the verticle line of the reticle.

Now make sure your speed is dead slow. You have plenty of time.

Inch forward slow and easy and watch the white dot until it settled down into the white circle all the way at the bottom. Thats puts the pad and the landing bulls eye directly below you.

Now tap the F key to lower your ship to the pad and you will eventually be low enough to trigger the landing holograph. Use the A and D keys to move left or right on the pad to line up.

If you over shoot tap the Z key to back up. Use the X key to dead stop. Make sure your landing gear is down and thats it.

[Liethkorious]

the default keyboard and mouse keys are designed for a joystick. swap mouse x-axis to yaw, y axis pitch. roll on A and D, throttle up to W, throttle down to S. bind thrusters to SHIFT+W,A,S,D and your boost should be tab or wherever you wont tap it by accident. you have thrust up/down default as R/F. With this when you want to land you simply face the correct way with the mouse, hold shift then aligned above the pad then hit f to descend.
When you request docking the alignment inticator (circle with a dot) will move from pointing to the station to pointing to your landing pad (for large stations you need to enter the letterbox first) This way you know whether the pad is above or below you.
When you enter large stations you can tell where the letterbox is by the way it is rotating, also there are arrows pointing to it if you target it.
When you enter the station be aware it will have tiny red or green lights on the letterbox, green is your lane and should be on the right side of your ship. follow this and you can remember where the pad numbers are easier.
There are a few landing techniques, if you have the shields you can 4 pips to systems, landing gear down and just hit the pad at 45 and pitch up and 9 times out of 10 you'll land if you hit the same spot every time. Other way is to fly above the pad, look down at it and fly until you touch it then pitch and decend.
If you ever are facing the wrong way on a pad (can tell by the landing hud below you when should show your ship facing upwards) rotating is very slow, usually much faster to pitch to flip over then rotate.

[Hughe Manne]

The problem I'm having now is that every time I get lined up to land, it drifts me off mark by refusing to cut engines, I hit x, it slows me down to 1 impulse, which just slowly drives me away from target location, no matter how much I try it just keeps drifting.

I don't get it either OP, I tried to stay positive, tried to tell myself its just me and I need to learn...I agree with you, I shouldn't need a actual pilots license and a degree in engineering to play a video game. There is such a thing as to much "challenge"...
and just because you feel accomplished by figuring it out over time, doesn't translate to fun. Fun would be me landing my first craft on a landing pad and getting missions or what ever else and simply going and playing the game, instead what I've got is 2 days of frustration disappointment as repeatedly I am starting over because my ship gets destroyed by security forces because I didn't do it fast enough, didnt locate the marker fast enough, didn't do some aerial acrobatics fast enough.
Pushing my ship off the landing pad might be the developers way of adding "challenge" to the game, but it just makes the entire endeavor tedius and rediculous. I want to play the game, not learn to fly an actual spaceship. I want to be entertained, not get a masters degree in space engineering.
I'm glad some of you have figured it out, I'm sure when the aliens get here and its time to fly away in our new spacecraft you will have mastered the training neccessary to do that. I on the other hand am just a mortal man with a normal brain, apparently some of us are just to dumb to play this game. so I'm going to get my refund tonight at 4am, because I didn't sit up with insomnia just to make myself feel stupid because of a damn video game.