Stuck in an Asteroid defense station.

Xante · Post by **Xante** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:05 am

Hello,

I'm using Vegastrike 0.5.

While travelling through space, I once came by Hhrass, and found there a station called a "Asteroid defense station". I was flying a vendetta, hunter spec.

Allthough the station looked a bit destroyed and stuck in an asteroid field, I thought it would be fine at least to have a look. As I approached, I was wondering how there wasn't any asteroid orbiting. The only asteroid was in fact the station itself. "Fine" I told to me "then I can dock easerly". I approached and hit D. The docking quaders where all red, so I flew around the station to find the entrance.

But there was none. Just one hook of the first quader came out of the station, just enough for my little fighter to dock at it. Finally I was save on the landing pad. I was thinking....

I visited the starport, and finally came by the shipyard, where a brand new milspec goddard was only waiting for me. Yeeeehaaa I thought, and within 5 minutes It was mine, fully upgraded with all the shiny upgrades I found on this little station.

Then came the time to say goodbye. I launched and......

....I was stuck into the wall of the station!! And as if this wasn't enough, the station got mad at me and started shooting at me! As I was prisonner of this asteroid, I coulnd't flee, and finally exploded. I don't know what hurt me more, if it was the station I was colliding with or the turrets which where shooting at me.

I thought if I respawn and retry, I would finally find a way to escape the station, but I tried about 10 times and finally gave up. I didn't try to buy back a smaller ship and then to escape. I think since the landing quaders are inside the station and unreachable, I don't think this would make a difference. I am stuck on this station.

If at least I would know how to hack me into another station.... I tried but I ended up in a system without jump points.

()Alf · Post by **()Alf** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:00 am

Well, i got stuck at such a station with the tiny llama as well, only help was reload another save.... since that, i do like before, docking from outside, even if it's a red square it's working when your are close enough.

Btw, stations should have more room to fly in...

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:34 pm

Btw, stations should have more room to fly in... Rolling Eyes

Tell me about it i have lost count of the number of times i bounced around in the Serenity station docking tunnel.

Enjoy the Choice

Xante · Post by **Xante** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:15 pm

()Alf wrote:Well, i got stuck at such a station with the tiny llama as well, only help was reload another save.... since that, i do like before, docking from outside, even if it's a red square it's working when your are close enough.

Btw, stations should have more room to fly in...

Dock from outside? But as I told, all the red squares were inside... how do you do it then?

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:11 pm

I'll have a look and see if i can place some better docking points it wont be the first base that was imposable to dock to because of bad placement.so what was the full name of that offending base.

Enjoy the Choice

()Alf · Post by **()Alf** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:18 pm

Dock from outside? But as I told, all the red squares were inside... how do you do it then?

Well, i nearly kissed the bases hull, but it was close enough to dock.

so what was the full name of that offending base.

In my case it was the AsteroidAndolianFighterBase in Indra system where i had another "problem": http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forum ... hp?t=10274

Coragem · Post by **Coragem** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:46 pm

Hi, just ran into this. see screenshot bellow. SVN rev: 11873

Thats me inside a asteroid fighter base. every time i launch, i get launched inside the station, and i cant go though the mesh back into space (well at least the collider is working.)

And i can just stand there inside the station, if i try getting out it starts shooting at me.
I will keep trying to get out, since i m saved in there...

EDITED: well after some tries i did manage to get out. I hit the inside of the station at around 100 m/s then when i got almost half the ship through the mesh i turned the ship sideways so more than half the ship was outside. then i got bounced to the outside of the station, and i don't know why it didn't shoot at me.

Xit · Post by **Xit** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:37 pm

It seemed to me that while Serentiy's docking points are close enough to the tunnet to let you dock, they actually spawn you in the wall of the docking tunnel. Having said that, I watched a nearby Ishmael (though this wasn't it's in game name) fly right through the station on it's docking pass so I think there oughta be a point on the outside for bigger ships, at least for the time being til docking can be limited...