Quickdocking, boon or bane?

[AeternusDoleo]

So, 2 minutes for just docking on a base?
'cuse me, do you ever think about traders? Those paperthing ships which at the moment already have no chance of survival against pirates?

As stated before, the default mooring paths are idiotically long, remnants from Vanilla - noone could fly a moor-enabled ship there. These are just a bunch of hardpoints that can be changed. I'm aiming for 2 to 5 seconds in the cutscene for mediums, 3 to 10 for heavies. Fighters would be no different then they are now (unless anyone points out a base with an excessively long dock sequence, then those can be adjusted too).

Docking is just 3 hardpoints: The HpDockMountX for the appear/disappear spot, HpDockPointX01 and HpDockPointX02 for the path ships take when in the sequence. The cutscene starts when the player passes HpDockPointX01 towards HpDockMountX, and ends when a player ship's HpMount is a set range from HpDockMountX (that is configured in the SolarArch config file). If the range is set equal or higher then the distance between HpDockMountX and HpDockPointX01 then a quick dock point is created.

For fighters we can't really do this because the HpDockMountX points for fighter berths is usually behind a door, one that is triggered when a player enters the cutscene. For bigger moors (Medium/Large) it is possible to keep quickdocking. However, this could become unfair to the fighters.

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