in flight fueling

[Tjt]

Is there a way to dock ships for re-fueling in outerspace

[OrionSteed]

While it's moving, you can leave the seat, get out and move around your ship.  Refuel it too.  As far as "docking", I haven't been to any space stations per se.  Not sure what happens when you land on a space core.

[Revelcro]

2 hours ago, OrionSteed said:

Not sure what happens when you land on a space core.

Usually you float off......almost every single time eventually in fact.  Docking on space stations is one of the reasons a lot of guild members took "an extended and prolonged break from DU".

 

[Daphne Jones]

5 hours ago, Tjt said:

Is there a way to dock ships for re-fueling in outerspace

You can refuel but you have to be carrying the fuel with you (in your nanopack or a container on the ship). You can carry up to 20t free in the nano.

 

If you're flying something like a modified speeder - i.e., no interior - stand on the wing and get in the seat or cockpit from there when you start out. That way you'll be standing on wing when you stand up and you won't fall away from your ship even if you're in gravity.

 

You shouldn't fall away from your ship in space, even in gravity, but it's pretty clear the NQ needs to review physics 101 again, because they got this wrong.

 

If your ship has an interior, you just need to be inside when you get in the seat.

 

If you're in 0 gravity (<.1g) you'll stay with your ship even if you weren't in/on it when you sat. You can EVA around it using your jet pack. This works even if you have non-zero velocity. (Some times in some patches, it's bugged - use at your own risk).

 

Docking has been almost completely broken for a while. You can dock a ship to a larger ship by using the maneuver tool, but only if you're standing on the ground or on a static core. You cannot land on a larger ship and expect docking to happen... this renders docking almost completely useless, e.g., you can launch from a carrier that you loaded up on the ground, but you can't return to the carrier after the mission.

 

I don't know if this bug applies to space stations. You may have to have someone grab your ship with the maneuver tool and dock it to get it on a space station. They fact that he's standing on a (static) space core, should let him dock it. If that works, you can refuel from the station.

 

You can also refuel from another ship by stopping (or matching velocity) close enough to each other that you can EVA between the ships.