Docking- Removing 50 Block limit

[ProfessorAsus]

I decided that I wanted my ship to be able to dock on our space station (base 75), so I added some docking modules and enhancers and made an area for it to go inside. I am sure it would fit, however, when I fired the docking beam, it was not there. I learnt from this thread it was because of a 50 block limit! So I placed cockpits around in a 50 block radius and tried to dock that way, without success, because its so fiddly to get the beam in the right place, when it orginates from the core!

The most helpful fix would be to have the docking beam orginate from the cockpit you are firing from, or actually have a seperate module, eg a docking computer and docking arrays. Either way would defintely make it less of a nightmare to dock!

 

[Terramort]

I like the docking array idea!

 

[SkyHawk024]

i have a ship that is approxiamtely 40 blocks wide and 150 blocks long id like to be able to dock it as well so a size limitation removed would be nice!

 

[Comr4de]

...There is no size limitation.



Pic related.





You are most likely doing something wrong.

 

[Zaflis]

Your \"small\" ship doesn\'t seem to have 50 block range from front to core (Actually 50 block distance from core to docking module when it\'s fired, if i understood right)

 

[Riftmaster]

...is in place so that we do not create some weird form of \"warp pipe\", wherein we can create a chain docks between two points, allowing us to very rapidly move from one to the next (since docking is near-instant over that 50-block range), effectively bypassing the speed limiit?



I\'m probably putting too much thought into this...

 

[douglasg14b]

The 50 block range makes it impossible to dock certain ships :/ they are undocked and can be easily destroyed by several of the collision detection bugs if anyone wanted to try.

 

[Comr4de]

OH. you guys meant the length of the docking beam lol



schema has mentioned that he\'s going to have the cockpit blocks fire the docking beam soon

 

[towerbilder]

im looking for a hevy tug ship thats flat and has 2 big 10000x900x900 on the bottom and top of the bild and 2 tall with and lanth is irelavent if it can movnuver with a 150 speed limit and stop nearly instantly and enuf sheelds and antimater canons to fend of pirates