Carrier Raptor Fails to dock its ships

[-Ripper-]

Assigned 10 interceptor to this carrier. Worked fine 1 or 2 docking

After that they try to dock and get stuck outside the entrance to docking pads(look cool but not practical)

I remove all assignments and orders... they still hang behind it stuck and do nothing...
Tried to assign em as defender to my base.. but this still hang there...

oh, i go into order list see if i can manual cancle the docking order...! did not work, its a critical order so it can not be removed..

Only thing that did work was to dock my carrier at my HQ, then they could not try dock anymore on carrier and they stopped trying.

[Belteguesian]

This happens if you are In System, get Out Of System (teleport) and they'll dock like clockwork...

[Sticky]

Docking Computers Mk2 are also helpful. Patience goes a long way too or leave sector as mentioned.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by Sticky:

Docking Computers Mk2 are also helpful. Patience goes a long way too or leave sector as mentioned.

Docking Computers only affect the Ship a Player is currently controlling... once the Ship is controlled by a NPC its the NPC who is responsible.

However, movement and Pathing of all ships can be influenced by rotation, movement Speed and literally everything that affects the Target they want to interact with.

A Fighhter that is in the critical Process to dock at a Carrier is best to be left allone... the Ship will finish its Docking Procedure at some point... or, if one wants them to be docked asap... they will finish it faster if one is not personally observing them... aka OOS (Out of Sector, Out of Sight).

[HoloByteus]

Here's something fun to try.

1 Raptor - 6 L Plasma, 93 DF Turrets, 3110 Heavy Dumbfire Mk1.
2 Monitor - Flak Cannons, 2 Cargo, 88 Defense Drones, 10 Repair Drones

Mk2's DF's are better but 2x more mats to make and not all that much better. DF turrets are surprisingly good against Xenon capitals and of course stations at around 8km.

Makes for a great show with all those missile trails and drones flying about.

[Sticky]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Originally posted by Sticky:

Docking Computers Mk2 are also helpful. Patience goes a long way too or leave sector as mentioned.

Docking Computers only affect the Ship a Player is currently controlling... once the Ship is controlled by a NPC its the NPC who is responsible.

However, movement and Pathing of all ships can be influenced by rotation, movement Speed and literally everything that affects the Target they want to interact with.

A Fighhter that is in the critical Process to dock at a Carrier is best to be left allone... the Ship will finish its Docking Procedure at some point... or, if one wants them to be docked asap... they will finish it faster if one is not personally observing them... aka OOS (Out of Sector, Out of Sight).

That is just wrong if that is the way it is, because Docking Computers are software just like the Targeting software. If Docking computers don't help anyone but the player controlled ship they shouldn't be sold as equipment for ships. That would be like the Targeting computers only working for the player controlled ships.

[Malkano]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Originally posted by Sticky:

Docking Computers Mk2 are also helpful. Patience goes a long way too or leave sector as mentioned.

Docking Computers only affect the Ship a Player is currently controlling... once the Ship is controlled by a NPC its the NPC who is responsible.

However, movement and Pathing of all ships can be influenced by rotation, movement Speed and literally everything that affects the Target they want to interact with.

A Fighhter that is in the critical Process to dock at a Carrier is best to be left allone... the Ship will finish its Docking Procedure at some point... or, if one wants them to be docked asap... they will finish it faster if one is not personally observing them... aka OOS (Out of Sector, Out of Sight).

AKA the boss makes me nervous so I suddenly forget how to fly :)

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by Malkano86:

AKA the boss makes me nervous so I suddenly forget how to fly :)

That could have been one of my answers... i like it... because its true.

Originally posted by Sticky:

That is just wrong if that is the way it is, because Docking Computers are software just like the Targeting software. If Docking computers don't help anyone but the player controlled ship they shouldn't be sold as equipment for ships. That would be like the Targeting computers only working for the player controlled ships.

The reason you can equip the Docking Computers and Targeting Systems onto literally everything is that you, the Player, could decide to take control of literally any Ship you own.

Most, if not all Players simply install the Software because, why not?
It does no harm and if you really decide that you want to controll this or that Ship later you won't get a bad surprise because you haven't Installed the DC and can't figure out why the hell the Ship does not Dock like usual.

[Sticky]

But i'm not the one who needs the docking software its only the Captains, I have no trouble at all docking without any Docking Software with any ship... As a matter of fact i prefer to dock without the docking software if it only effects the player. But maybe i'm just really good at it and it ruins the realism if i dock with Docking Computers. Docking computers should be sold by traders like space suit upgrades if they do not affect the ships captains.

[eMYNOCK]

Lets say it this way... Docking Computers are not Mandatory, they are Optional.

A Ship can fly without them, they are just there as a Quality of Life thing.

Everyone who ever has landed a Sidewinder in a Coriolis Station does not needs the Docking Computer... but do you really want to do that Procedure every time when you can have the luxury of just approaching the Pad and the DC takes over for you once close enough?

[Sticky]

Buying a Docking computer at a shipyard for an installed software for a Ship, leaves a player under the impression that it effects the ships captains docking efficiency. Where you would think it would help all Captains. And may solve many issues players have with docking if they did, being now i know they don't affect NPC ships. I feel it should work for all ships the same way regardless if controlled by player or NPC. But this is my opinion.

[-Ripper-]

Originally posted by Sticky:

Buying a Docking computer at a shipyard for an installed software for a Ship, leaves a player under the impression that it effects the ships captains docking efficiency. Where you would think it would help all Captains. And may solve many issues players have with docking if they did, being now i know they don't affect NPC ships. I feel it should work for all ships the same way regardless if controlled by player or NPC. But this is my opinion.

the ai seem to have no problem dock with or without it. that was not the issue in my case..
The issue was to many fighers bottled up outside the carrier entrance at 1 time so none of em fly down inside the ship to the dockpads. other carriers have pads outside the ships, never had issues there.