Docking without docking enhancers

[Boejchen]

Greetings to all

I have a question about docking mechanics.

How to park/dock big capital ships without using the normal mechanics (Docking module and a hell lot of docking enhancers in 3 Dimensions) or a crappy to use docking clamp of some kind?

Outside of some starbases i see tiny blibs of lets say 4-5 blocks to dock ships on it. But i could not find out what is the trick here. It looks for excample like this. Outside is a small shape of lights to mark the parking position (x) and in the middle just some blocks with one (1) docking module and none (0) enhancers.

X X X


X B X


X X X

The Station is miles away and not secret hidden lines or something. So i wondered ... WHAT THE..... :-D
how is this working. I realy want to addept this for my Spacestation too.

Has anybody a clue how this works? I realy would appreciate.
Thank you in advance.

 

[der_scheme]

The group of enhancers doesn't have to be physically connected to the docking module. Just build them anywhere and link them to the module.

 

[Crimson-Artist]

there is an actual range for connected enhancers. not exactly sure what it is but you can't put a dock on side of a 800m ship and the enhancers on the other side and expect them to work

 

[MineCatFTW]

there is an actual range for connected enhancers. not exactly sure what it is but you can't put a dock on side of a 800m ship and the enhancers on the other side and expect them to work

If I had to guess, I would say that is dependent on your render distance/max segments drawn.

 

[Boejchen]

Thank you der_Sheme, it worked. But please continue the discussion

 

[jath]

Docking enhancers are stupid.

 

[Megacrafter127]

Docking enhancers are stupid.

I disagree, while they are annoying at times, they are a great way of balancing the size ratios of docked ship and mother-entity

 

[jath]

Why not just have ships that are too large disconnect once the other ship moves? Docking enhancers would make more sense if they increased the strength of the enhancer so the disconnection doesn't happen upon movement.