docking permission denied, why?

[priamossz]

I took a mission to deliver some cargo to this station and its refusing my dock requests. I am within the 7.5km zone so I dont get why i cant dock

[Bannor]

If you're at a platform - it has limited docking bays. If they're already occupied - you're out of luck. Log into another session and try again.

[priamossz]

so limited space and all park space blocked thats reasonable but the game should have given an explanation about it.....i managed to dock now thank you for your help

[Naryoril]

It can happen quite regularerly at outposts if you are flying a medium ship, since the seem to have only a single medium landing pad.

[tomg2012]

It would be helpful if it said "no docking pads available". Although, if you're in Solo mode, you just have to wait a minute or two for the AI to leave the hangar.

[Ｍｏｎａｄｎｏｃｋ]

1: All the pads are taken by another CMDR or AI ship
2: There is no pad big enough for your ship. Outposts in particular. This is really only a problem when flying a large ship.

[Bannor]

Originally posted by priamossz:

so limited space and all park space blocked thats reasonable but the game should have given an explanation about it.....i managed to dock now thank you for your help

Dude, these places have like 5 parking bays - MAX. You really need the game to tell you that they're occupied? You truly can't tell by yourself, just by looking at them?
If you drive IRL, I'd hate to live anywhere near you.....

[Naryoril]

Originally posted by Bannor:

Dude, these places have like 5 parking bays - MAX. You really need the game to tell you that they're occupied? You truly can't tell by yourself, just by looking at them?
If you drive IRL, I'd hate to live anywhere near you.....

Whats with the pointless aggressiveness against an obviously new player? Chill down man.

And even finding your own parking space with that light show can be a pain at an outpost, let alone not marked ones.

[Stelar Seven]

This happens a lot to me on platforms. I find it's always an NPC ship sitting on the pad.

Flying to the pad ant targeting the NPC seems to move them along and then I'm right there and can dock.

[priamossz]

Originally posted by Bannor:

Originally posted by priamossz:

so limited space and all park space blocked thats reasonable but the game should have given an explanation about it.....i managed to dock now thank you for your help

Dude, these places have like 5 parking bays - MAX. You really need the game to tell you that they're occupied? You truly can't tell by yourself, just by looking at them?
If you drive IRL, I'd hate to live anywhere near you.....

I am using the newbie ship still (so probably the smallest) and i dont think i ever come across parking slot mechanic in any other space game. i dont believe its a bad thing changing the "access denied" message to "you cant park because there is no space". by the way whats the point of having npc ships blocking the parking slots. are they actually transporting goods around?

[Naryoril]

Originally posted by priamossz:

I am using the newbie ship still (so probably the smallest) and i dont think i ever come across parking slot mechanic in any other space game. i dont believe its a bad thing changing the "access denied" message to "you cant park because there is no space". by the way whats the point of having npc ships blocking the parking slots. are they actually transporting goods around?

I fully agree that a different message would be much better. As to what's the point: Elite Dangerous is much more of a simulation than pretty much any other space game. Since you see NPC ships entering and leaving stations as part of that simulation it's only natural that these ships are also docked somewhere while they are at the station.
I'm not sure if the simulation goes so far as to transporting goods around, but considering there is a market supply and demand simulation in the game which i'm pretty sure changes even without player involvement, i wouldn't be surprised if they actually were transporting stuff around.

[tomg2012]

I think there’s a text in one of the windows that explains why when you’re denied, but it’s easy to miss. I remember freaking out once because I needed fuel for my Cobra and couldn’t jump anywhere else. I just sat there trying to figure out what to do and I noticed a ship launch. Tried again and was able to dock.

[Ting Ting]

So what does happen if you run out of fuel?

[Naryoril]

Originally posted by Ting Ting:

So what does happen if you run out of fuel?

You can't move anymore. The options are blowing up your ship or calling the Fuel Rats. The Fuel Rats are a group of players who will come and transfer some fuel to you, no matter where you are in the galaxy and from what i heard they are pretty fast too, even if you are thousands of light years away from any inhabited system.

[Ting Ting]

Originally posted by Naryoril:

Originally posted by Ting Ting:

So what does happen if you run out of fuel?

You can't move anymore. The options are blowing up your ship or calling the Fuel Rats. The Fuel Rats are a group of players who will come and transfer some fuel to you, no matter where you are in the galaxy and from what i heard they are pretty fast too, even if you are thousands of light years away from any inhabited system.

awesome, thanks for that mate lol :) i dont plan on running out, but.................lol

[priamossz]

what do these fuel rats charge?