Docking Ships together

[Gunther]

Hi all,
I am currently trying to expand the firepower of a larger ship by docking smaller ships to it.
I want to use these smaller ships as permanently docked defence platforms.
As soon as I dock the smaller ships (currently 2) to my main ship I get the message "Not enough turret slots for all turrets" and although my main ship has enough slots for all turrets.
When I fight with docked ships, the turrets of the docked ships do not fire, although they are equipped with modules and have enough crew.

I guess the guns of the docked ships are added to the number of guns of the main ship. However, I could not find anything about this in the Wiki.

Does anyone know more about this?

[Niuq]

Not sure but i know there is an option when starting in free play mode ( which is a customizable non creative game) that refers to docked ships being able to fire.

Start up a new game with this option enabled and test out your design?

[Gunther]

Thanks... thats an idea ...i will try that later

So far i found out:
- Turrets which are placed on a ship which you want to dock to your main ship, are counted to the main ship turrets.
- If the main ship is already equipped with maximum turrets of that specific type, the turrets of the docked ship arent working and you will get a yellow warning on your screen. "Not enough turret slots for all turrets"
- If you have enough turret slots free, the turrets from the docked ships work.
- If you are in a Sektor an mark mark your main ship and by accident also the docked ships ... give an order to fly to a station... the ships will undock.

So sadly my idea with use of the docked ships as extended shooting platform doesnt work in normal mode.