Docking, cameras, and ship mechanics

[Kaezon]

First off, I'm super happy to see the new docking zone customization. It's made docking sooooo much easier in my medium to large ships.

There's only one critique I have: ships have to dock with the ship core directly over the docking module. This means that if I use the core as a forward bridge, the ship will only be able to use half the total length of the docking area.

Perhaps a solution would be to add a module which would act as a docking point AND as an alternate veiwport. Having multiple could allow the ship to dock with different types of docking setups.

 

[Present_containing]

I also wish my ships had a docking \'hardpoint\' with an associated camera that had a view that could face any way.

It would make docking my ships so much easier if i could position the docking beam emitter on the bottom and have a downward facing camera near it, or built into it, that allows me to dock easily.

It would also be neat to have a docking emitter on top of the ship, so that i could make carrier ships with docking bays on the bottom that deploy docked ships straight down and out.