Docking broken.

[GraXXoR]

NQ. Just want to say an insincere thank you from the bottom of my heart for making all my small personal shuttles useless... I specialise in and have build dozens of one man dockable shuttles and recreational vehicles since starting DU. My ships are known for being ridiculously compact... And I have NEVER used the glitch exploit to achieve any of my designs by placing elements through each other...

But now that you've gone and completely fudged up docking, not a single one of my ships can actually dock with any of my host vessels any more.....  Even in the earliest alphas, docking was basically a lottery but now NOTHING works.

I knew that the manoeuvre tool was now no longer able to do it, so I decided to try fly some of my smaller ships onto the landing pads. Biiig mistake...

This is REALLY annoying with your game since your code seems to be incapable of even calculating the hit boxes of the elements and voxels with anything approaching finesse or accuracy. So it's a complete crapshoot trying to actually fly using VTOL in proximity to the host vessels because something with an invisible hit box will invariably collied with something else and leave the vehicle floating in mid air.

Worse, once I get out, they all continue to bump and jiggle around on top of the parent vessel as if possessed by the souls of disaffected DU players and invariably end up sliding off the side and dropping to the ground.

So a big thank you for yet again using a sledgehammer to crush an entire, useful and unique function in your game.

I can't help feeling that the programmers got pissed off by people abusing the bugs they left unfixed in their code and exploited with impunity knowing no punishment was going to be made, so they just removed the whole function as a middle finger to the players; cutting off the nose to spite the face, at it were.

I'm now going to consider a new career that doesn't include building  micro, slot-dockable, ships since no body will use them now docking is such a massive pain in the rear.

OK. Rant over...  I feel much better now ?