Can you dock CV to CV in 8.0?

[Zing]

Is it possible now to dock CV to CV or HV to SV? Wanted to make a dropship for my capital ship, but was unable back then. What about now?

[zwrm1]

agree that HV should dock to SV. also been asking for a long time.

[Zing]

I would really, really love to be able to build a dropship that can ferry stuff back and forth between my capital vessel and planet I am currently orbiting.

[Erek]

Originally posted by zwrm1:

agree that HV should dock to SV. also been asking for a long time.

http://survey.empyriongame.com/index.php/584288
Maybe a little bit late but there under additional features

[Tourist McGee]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by Zing:

If CV to CV is too hard, then what about HV to SV?

The S in SV is "Small". It wouldn't make much sense to be able to dock to something small.

I make my SV's big enough to have an interior cabin to walk around in. They are only small in relation to the CV.

[Mixolydian]

Think of it as merging two CVs, not docking. See the merge block in Space Engineers.

It merges all systems aboard both ships, including of course thrusters. Once merged, all systems from both ships can be accessed from terminals on either ship.

I haven't played this game much so I don't know how useful this would be, but I'd like the ability to keep anything that isn't related to combat on one CV. During battle, that CV could be left behind while the combat CV would be more agile and have more efficient use of resources. At least, this was the idea behind saucer separation on the good ol' Enterprise-D, especially since they had tons of civilians living in the saucer.

The ability to have a dropship would be awesome too.

[gspark693]

I would love to be able to make a CV that is basically a small CV without a warp drive etc, and dock it to a much more fuel intensive huge CV in orbit. Or do that with a sv that can ferry hv back and forth. As it is, I am limited in the size of the ship I can use by fuel requirements. Very frustrating.

[MokahTGS]

CVs absolutely do dock to bases. Do it all the time. I support the OP with this request however, as docking any ship to any other ship is totally doable with some code modifications. We just need a fleet manager interface to tag one of our ships as the mothership for all others.

Please add this feature!

[Khloros]

Originally posted by MokahTGS:

CVs absolutely do dock to bases. Do it all the time. I support the OP with this request however, as docking any ship to any other ship is totally doable with some code modifications. We just need a fleet manager interface to tag one of our ships as the mothership for all others.

Please add this feature!

I was reading that the devs do plan to make HV->SV a thing but the problem they had was the code supports a child to parent ship relationship. So for capital vessels they are the parent the SV and HV are the child. But they dont have the grandparent relationship coded. So a HV in a SV in a CV would break, because the SV could see the HV as a child but the CV is a crazy old man and yells at the HV.

That said yes i really want a HV -> SV ->CV, because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i want a drop ship that can take a small mining rig down to a planet. like to be able to go into orbit with a CV, launch the SV with the HV in it to go mine and take back, would be amazing.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by MokahTGS:

CVs absolutely do dock to bases. Do it all the time.

Not only do you not do this all this time, you're not doing it at all. I can no longer recall if it was ever once possible, but it most certainly is not now. Wasn't possible as far back as 8.7.1.

CVs do not (currently) dock to bases or anything else. If you need proof, here's an objective way to test it:
1. "dock" a ship to a base;
2. obtain the structure ID of the base (di or ents commands);
3. use the destroy <structID> console command to destroy the base;
4. IF AND ONLY IF the CV was truly docked to the base, it will be destroyed along with it, because that is the nature of the destroy command to also destroy anything that is docked to the target structure.

I would of course not recommend doing this with a base and ship that aren't expendable.

Finally, you resurrected a thread discussing version 7.x or 8.x of the game, now one or two whole number revisions obsolete. Pay attention to thread dates when searching the forum, and leave alone anything more than a few months old. This is a game still in development where a few months can render earlier discussions irrelevant.

[Tourist McGee]

When last i played, i could land my CV on my land base and have it repaired. Not sure when/if they changed that, or why for they would for that matter, but then, this dev has made various questionable design choices.

[TwitchyJ]

Originally posted by Tourist McGee:

When last i played, i could land my CV on my land base and have it repaired. Not sure when/if they changed that, or why for they would for that matter, but then, this dev has made various questionable design choices.

Landing on a base for repair is in now way docking, not one bit.
Docking is when it latches on to the other structure, and CV's DO NOT dock to anything.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by Tourist McGee:

When last i played, i could land my CV on my land base and have it repaired. Not sure when/if they changed that, or why for they would for that matter, but then, this dev has made various questionable design choices.

As TwitchyJ said, ability to repair is not synonymous with docking, nor does repair require it. It can't require it, since docking isn't possible! The ONLY requirements for repair is that the vessel be fully powered-down and that some part of the vessel be within two(?) blocks of the repair block.

[rphillips1986]

CV's have never been able to dock to anything. HV and SV can dock to CV or BA and those are the only docking possabilities right now. They are intent on changing this but it's not a priority at the moment. Other things they want to focus on before reworking the docking code. I don't expect to see more docking options till closer to Beta.

[AH-1 Cobra]

It would be neat if you could do this, but it would only make sense for a vehicle of smaller size to initiate the docking with something larger. For example, you got a size 10 CV, and you want to dock a size 1-3 to it.

Being able to dock any HV to any SV would be kinda stupid. I think you should be able to dock a small HV to a medium or large sized SV.

[Tourist McGee]

Of course, being able to put the same equipment on an SV that you can an HV (mining equipment, clone chamber, etc) would solve a lot of problems.