Quickdocking, boon or bane?

[AeternusDoleo]

Valid points so far. Let me address a few questions/concerns:

- Jumpholes not able to take certain craft could be limited to specific jumpholes. Plugging up every Outcast and Corsair capship in their respective homes wouldn't do anyone any good. But I frankly do not see a reason why battleships would be using the New Berlin - Sigma 13 hole to give an example. Or transports for that matter. Same deal with the Omicron Minor / Alaska hole. Specific "big shortcut" holes could thus be limited to smaller craft, creating viable runs for freighters and easy avenues of escape for pirate raiders who are fleeing from caps. Which I wager will be more fun to fly then transports. And yes, unlawfuls blowing up a freighter could likely snatch that loot for themselves...

- Base defenses: Not really put much thought into this one yet, but a mix of pulse cannons, light guns that more or less resemble standard Solaris, and one or two heavy hitters with firepower comparable to a battleship primary (depends on -what- base too, a tiny outpost has less firepower then a huge freeport model) should give most bases a bit of allround firepower. Solaris to take on bombers and snubs straying too close, pulse and heavies to take on anything else. But nothing is certain yet on this subject.

- Models with docking issues fall outside of the scope of this. Touketsu was bugged and is fixed in update 4. If any other big ships are difficult to dock due to their docking point not being at the forward area please report those as model bugs.

- "Or docking at Buffalo Base in a slave liner (which happens often), there are certain large asteroids in the way, making it difficult for the AI to align the ship properly, and it often needs several attempts before being able to dock. That can take a good few minutes." -> Stuff like this needs to be reported as a system bug. It just means the exclusion zone around that base is a bit too small, all of a minute of work to adjust that.

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