Quickdocking, boon or bane?

[AeternusDoleo]

A question I propose now is that if someone gets into a fight and wants to escape, how does said person escape / have a chance of living without leaving the system, fighting, or getting in a trade lane?

Does combat become a death sentence to those who wish to avoid it?

(Nothing wrong there, just throwing some questions out)

Withdraw to a friendly base and have beefy base guns and base patrols put an end to your enemy. Or die like a boss. Be aware that transports in their docking animation would still be invulnerable - so once you're more or less at the docking sequence, you're safe. It however will prevent cruise-slamming into the base's quickdock point. Fighters will be most vulnerable to the longer dock routine, simply for being more fragile then the odd armored trader.

@Erica: That video is a clear example of some badly chosen docklane hardpoints. That is a model issue, not a problem with the system, and -can- be fixed quite easily. Also, for all the folks feeling potentially frustrated about the long wait: I -will- be going over the docking routines for all the bases and ensure that at least the medium moors don't take forever to finish their hands-off sequence. My aim is 7 seconds tops on the handsfree time, with an aim of 5 (which translates to no more then 150m between the "vanish" point and the first docklane point). Bigger caps I'd aim for 10 seconds or so, they need more room sometimes as well.

@Knjaz: This is also to prevent bigger ships from getting stuck while undocking, or even blowing up while undocking from planets. This patch will fix that completely, allowing even a barge to safely moor/unmoor from a planet.

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