Guys, is there a way to connect more than two ships together?

[RUA RUA RUA]

just feel like my gunship from early game cost lesser than a fighter, and it has eight hard points+ two PDL slots(cost only 9k Naonite+87K cash, not in hard mode so won't losing weapons, rebuild is very cheap, overall cheaper and better than cost 10+ material and a lot of time to build a fighter), so I decide to build a gunship carrier that can carry four of these ships+ 120 fighters, but after I finish building them in creative mode I found that I can only connect one of the ship to my carrier, once I connect one of them the option to connect for other ships will disappear even when other ships are touching the landing pads. I was quite frustrated to see that, but still I don't want my 3 hr work gone to waste, is there a way to connect all of them together? maybe something like mods?

[Jonofwrath]

Yes; dock them.

Method: Make sure the ship you're piloting has a dock block, get within 0.2km and you should get the option to dock (hold C) and you'll tractor beam the other ship to yours until it sort of clicks into place and is the essentially fixed.

Bonus info: You can also move stations around like this (put them in transport mode and turn them into a small ship first). In this way you can move stations to different sectors.

TMI: In my next build I'm incorporating a place for a permanent "shuttle" that I'll use to claim asteroids instead of taking my 1km+ Ship close to them.

[RUA RUA RUA]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jonofwrath:

Yes; dock them.

Method: Make sure the ship you're piloting has a dock block, get within 0.2km and you should get the option to dock (hold C) and you'll tractor beam the other ship to yours until it sort of clicks into place and is the essentially fixed.

Bonus info: You can also move stations around like this (put them in transport mode and turn them into a small ship first). In this way you can move stations to different sectors.

TMI: In my next build I'm incorporating a place for a permanent "shuttle" that I'll use to claim asteroids instead of taking my 1km+ Ship close to them.

Thanks for reply, sorry if I made any confusion, English isn't my first language, I did used a lot of docking block as landing pad, but only one of them can work at a time, once one of them occupied by a gunship all other docking block won't be able to dock other gunships even when those docking block facing different direction.

[fluxtorrent]

Did you dock your "central" craft to the first gunship, or the gunship to the central craft. I think the order makes a difference.

try undocking them and controlling the gunship to dock to the central ship, and then do likewise with the other gunship. I >believe< that you probably docked your core ship to the gunship, making it the central ship so the one you WANT as core cant dock anything else.

[Jonofwrath]

Oprindeligt skrevet af fluxtorrent:

Did you dock your "central" craft to the first gunship, or the gunship to the central craft. I think the order makes a difference.

try undocking them and controlling the gunship to dock to the central ship, and then do likewise with the other gunship. I >believe< that you probably docked your core ship to the gunship, making it the central ship so the one you WANT as core cant dock anything else.

That's interesting. Makes sense I guess.

Testing required!

[RUA RUA RUA]

Oprindeligt skrevet af fluxtorrent:

Did you dock your "central" craft to the first gunship, or the gunship to the central craft. I think the order makes a difference.

try undocking them and controlling the gunship to dock to the central ship, and then do likewise with the other gunship. I >believe< that you probably docked your core ship to the gunship, making it the central ship so the one you WANT as core cant dock anything else.

I dock my gunship to the carrier, actually I think I understand whats happening now, I should park my ship near the landing pad and let the mothership pull the gunship in, I will give it a try to see the result.

[DipperActual]

Isn't it true though that the baby ships become dead weight added to the mothership after they are docked? Even if they have Captains?

It would be nice if the Engines and Thrusters effort would be added to the mothership but I have not seen that happen. When I played with it, to attempt to make a supercarrier with Hangar heavy micro-carriers, It seemed as though every additional docked ship only added mass. (until it felt like it would implode into a singularity eventually if I continued with my master plan.)

[RUA RUA RUA]

Oprindeligt skrevet af DipperActual:

Isn't it true though that the baby ships become dead weight added to the mothership after they are docked? Even if they have Captains?

It would be nice if the Engines and Thrusters effort would be added to the mothership but I have not seen that happen. When I played with it, to attempt to make a supercarrier with Hangar heavy micro-carriers, It seemed as though every additional docked ship only added mass. (until it felt like it would implode into a singularity eventually if I continued with my master plan.)

Yup, all the thursters on baby ship are useless when they docked at the mothership, even tho the thurster seems still working but no force apply to the mothership

[HgM3rk]

Oprindeligt skrevet af RUA RUA RUA:

Oprindeligt skrevet af DipperActual:

Isn't it true though that the baby ships become dead weight added to the mothership after they are docked? Even if they have Captains?

It would be nice if the Engines and Thrusters effort would be added to the mothership but I have not seen that happen. When I played with it, to attempt to make a supercarrier with Hangar heavy micro-carriers, It seemed as though every additional docked ship only added mass. (until it felt like it would implode into a singularity eventually if I continued with my master plan.)

Yup, all the thursters on baby ship are useless when they docked at the mothership, even tho the thurster seems still working but no force apply to the mothership

same here. @Dev