CF1.6

This has happenen, seemingly randomly, 3 times to me; twice with a Deimos and once with a Dromedary. On all occasions the approach angle was from below, either at a battleship or at asteroid base. No idea whether there's a connection or if it's coincidence.

How is that possible?

Suppose for a moment that a clan's leader owned a battleship. What if other members of the same clan could dock with it, buy commodities and equipment, get repairs, and respawn from it? Is a moving, player-controlled base even feasible? If it is, it could add a strategic edge to clan activity. Probably an unrealistic idea, but it would still be awesome...

By the way, are looting limits even possible?

That would be good, but impossible i guess, since those battleships use different scripts. Think this way, they're normal stations, using an battleship model.

@OP: This is weird, Wavey said he knew someone that had the exact same prob with the hydra. This seems to affect only big fighters (only fighters, no bb's, or freighters, at least with me, i've seen it happening only with fighters.)

That is VERY much impossible. What happens if the leader signs off when someone is docked? Prolly server crash.

Plus how can you manage the inventory? Prolly possible in another game, but not Freelancer.

As for looting limits there is, but not for certain items like no looting of berlillium from a frieghter or such. I belive it is only limited by ship class.

The hanging in a dock without docking is sometimes caused by lag

It also happens in SP so it can not be lag. It seems likely that it has something to do with vessel size and the geography of certain docking bays. In all in the intances where I have experienced this glitch, it has resolved itself after a few minutes of bouncing around, and the vessel has completed the docking.

OP, wouldn't there be a problem of looting if people started creating multiple characters just to loot the same stuff?

My 2 cents.

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It also happens in SP so it can not be lag. It seems likely that it has something to do with vessel size and the geography of certain docking bays. In all in the intances where I have experienced this glitch, it has resolved itself after a few minutes of bouncing around, and the vessel has completed the docking.

I had a similar experience docking in a very heavy fighter at Outpost Delta a few times in the earlier versions of CF. The ship would bounce around in the docking ring for awhile, taking hull damage and eventually --usually -- dock without any lasting damage. I think it's been fixed.

I tried to dock a Shroud at Outpost Delta. I let the ship do its own thing...I ended up dying before getting to dock. Probably just a fluke.

That shouldn't happen... I landed there many times before with no problems. I also have a Shroud. But I play MP, not SP... So I can't be of much help if this is a bug which applies to SP only...

It was just once. You have to start your approach from a rediculous angle in relation to the docking bay for it to happen. At least for now we're all safer fliers than the NPCs (who just fly into planet atmospheres half the time instead of docking).

If i could get my pc working again i would record this with fraps.

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It seems likely that it has something to do with vessel size and the geography of certain docking bays.

I have to agree with you, since this never happened to me while i was docking with a planet, it seems that it only happens with stations.

With me, the only way to stop that, is exiting the game, and reconecting again, only to find myself trapped inside the docking bay with the doors closed.

How does the docking works? What must happen to the loading screen appears? If we could find a common thing in all the fighters with this glitch, it would be more easy to fix i guess.

For what i know, the prob aren't the stations, docking bays, or connection status, but specific to the fighters, bcuz it never happened with ships like phoenix, or komodo dragon, but it happens all the time with rage bringer or elite defender. The common point between these two: They're large.

Big ships are made in shipyards, so is it posible to make these shipyards dockable for big ships like trains and BS ?

New Pol forgive me for this sarcasim, but you can dock there now. They just wont let you get off the ship.

.....huuummm..... .....yeeeeh..... .........YES ...... .......looking stupid now ..........

PS: never had a BS or train so ........

Maybe we can get of ship and buy something else ?

Uh Chief, do you mean that the shipyards are now dockable? And what do you mean they won't let you off the ship??

I haven't tried recently, but I have a Train and never managed to dock at shipyards other than Crossfire Dock 1 and 2 because they have mooring fixtures...