Ship Docking Hanger Idea

[Philonious Rex]

I'm probably not the first to bring this up but I havn't seen it in here yet.

It would be super cool if you could dock ships within other ships (seperately from fighters). Not sure if it would use the same hanger or something different. But I would love to be able to dock a ship inside another ship. So you could have a really fast run around ship docked inside of a giant capital ship for instance.

I like the idea of having multiple ships but I don't like the vulnerabillity of them flying around on their own all the time.

Thoughts?

[Counter Strike Angry]

I think this would be cool to see.

[Venator]

Indeed battleships and bigger should be able to 'carry' smaller mining- and combat ships with perhaps an penalty to hyperjump range. I believe this has been mentioned before, but it just is a very good idea.

[Fox]

It is confirmed to be a planned feature that you can pilot a single ship with multiple players (like one for piloting, one for Turret Control, one for Fighter Management, etc.)... maybe in relation to this we get something to being able to dock and seperate like the Drone, just with (1Slot?)Ships

[Bricolage]

It will be really nice to have the option to dock one or two smaller Ships on/in a bigger ship similiar to the Hyperion M7 Class Ship from the X-Universe. It must not a new hangar a special docking block to lock to ships will be more then ok.

[Philonious Rex]

Originally posted by Bricolage:

It will be really nice to have the option to dock one or two smaller Ships on/in a bigger ship similiar to the Hyperion M7 Class Ship from the X-Universe. It must not a new hangar a special docking block to lock to ships will be more then ok.

As long as they are protected by the larger ships shield. I was imagining something where the other ship dissapears inside the larger ship for performance reasons. Then if that block or the ship is destroyed the other ship appears. But it could just be a dock I'd be fine with that. I was also a fan of the M7 ships and really enjoyed that gameplay.

[D K]

Ship to ship docking is planned, but I wouldnt expect it soon.

[Philonious Rex]

I don't have a thumbs up icon so

[goddling]

Hope it is better docking than,
hope you don't crash at 0km opps AI moved, no more dock.

[Philonious Rex]

Lol ya, I guess that's why I like the idea of the ship dissapearing into your docking bay. That way there's no chance of it screwing up. The docking in space engineers was always pretty crazy from what I remember. Sometimes those docking clamps would just explode and the ship would fly off into space. The fighters in this game seem to dock pretty well so using the same system on a larger scale seems like a no brainer. But then there's also the docking bay that's already in the game for stations so I guess they could use that too.

In either case I imagine it's going to probably be quite a while before it gets worked on.

[daddy seahorse]

The ship should not disapear, people should just learn to pilot a ship. there should be some kind of "in" ship dock maybe something that resembles a docking hook with a buffer that takes slight impact and once docked the ship becomes a permanently fixed object to the bigger ship it is docked with and of corse the docking bays opening would be as big as you make the door classed as bay door. it has its own field to keep space out and need to be shot at to break the block just like any other block. this bay door is also protected by your main shield. untill it falls your bay dor is protected. your bay will be as big as you make it and any shape. as long as its inwards of your ship its classed as a docking bay and can have docking hooks attached to the inside walls.

[daddy seahorse]

new patch has caused me this problem.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/445220/discussions/0/135512625255628498/

Please take a min to see. I have yet to fixed the problem. I can not play.