Ship won''t dock

Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:41 pm by robocop

I have a modified version of the armored transport that won't dock on a base. It will launch from a base but when you want to dock you can't.

when you request permission to dock the docking agent grants permission and then you just maneuver around forever trying to dock but you never go to the cinematic or actually dock.

the ship does have can_use_berths applied.

What should I be looking for?

Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:33 pm by Anton

look at station enties... they have a radius value somewhere (its been quite some time since i messed in inis). expand the radius et voila

Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:36 pm by robocop

ermm

there's a lot of stations...

I would have to edit each one, correct?

so far i've just tested freeport 9. I'll have to see what station i can dock on and change FP9's radius to match.

which file?

Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:16 am by General Drake

solararch.ini

Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:22 pm by robocop

I think I fixed it. It seems that bank angle and nudge force may have been the culprits.

Now I have a different issue.

An unmodded player noticed that when I used my tractor it wouldn't shut off.

The tractor being used is the ge_s_tractor_01

This is the same tractor used by all other ships in the game. Why would this one start acting funny?

Ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:02 am by darth revan

Robocop,the only time i've seen that is if the player has bad lag.I once had a tractor out for about 5 minutes once..i just sat there and marveled at it's beauty

Other than that i can't think of anything

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Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:54 am by Cold_Void

does the ship have a tractorbeam source hardpoint?

Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:34 am by robocop

yeah, after checking with a couple other players it looks like the first player who reported it was experiencing significant lag. He's a known dialup *shudder* user.

Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:15 am by darth revan

Sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one

Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:42 pm by Rankor

yeah...ship mass can cause problems if it's out of balance with the type of ship.
It gets to be trying at times.
I've also noticed when using a Reinland Gunboat engine on certain ships...it will also cause this docking problem...simply because the ship is manuvering too fast. (I usually switch to manual control and get my ship lined up directly in the path of the docking point before I hit the dock command and this usually works pretty well.)

Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:45 pm by robocop

What would cause a ship to lose engine kill speed too quickly?

I'm using the armored transport engine on this ship. Linear drag has been reduced to 599 from 3000. The engine loses speed very quickly when using engine kill.

Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:41 am by darth revan

Mass perhaps? I've not heard of that one too often

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