Player Features and Ideas Discussion

some stations you do un-dock at 0m/s others have a system in it to eject the ships out so yes it does make sense

Jita would be carnage if you did this, all those ships sat on top of each other warping and aligning at different times. Not that it wouldn't be funny like.

it used to be like that

they had to change it becuase people would just bounce off of the undocks all the time. could take an hour to align off the jita undock.

theres also a 5 to 10 dec spread on the angle ships are shot out at

Komi had a very nice post above, but you don't even need to go that far to explain ships traveling at speed when they exit the station.

Just look at the freaking station

Ships are housed deep within the station, and there is a rather long "runway" they have to go through to get to the outer space area. Part of that area is visible from the undock area, which is shielded. You can even see parts of this runway while you ship spin. Those ships flying in the background are approaching the undock door and they're getting up to speed.

In fact "runway" makes for a much better analogy here. Instead of thinking about undock as a car/garage situation, think of it like an airport. By the time an aircraft leaves the grounds of the airport, they're traveling at ~250kph and accelerating. When you see a ship at undock, they're just leaving the grounds of the station, so of course they're up to speed. They had to travel through the undock corridor and simply got up to max speed while doing so.

You're seeing a ship flying off the runway, not putzing around on the taxiway, of course they're at max speed. Anything else would just be silly.

You could still instawarp, I believe any (or almost any) dockable ship in the game can get to 75% of top speed within the 30s undock invulnerability.

At some point in the mists of history, all ships undocked at speed and all pointing in the exact same direction. CCP changed the undocking mechanics to add a small random variation to the heading of all undocking ships to reduce the level of unintended bumping that was occurring at crowded stations.

Having ships undock at 0m/s would create a huge amount of unintentional bumping, so I highly doubt that CCP would work to undo their previous change.

You missed the part where everyone told you this would create horrible traffic due to unintended bumping.

Please, tell us; what do these futuristic catapult launchers look like? None of us has seen them in real life before, so it would be useful to get some information from someone who actually has to explain why they would be conspicuous.

While we're at it, can you tell us what shield emitters look like? Because I can't pick them out on any of my ships.

So, you're still missing the point where this will create horrible traffic and bumping. Fantastic.

And you were already corrected that critizing what is based on how it conforms to your conception of how it must be is a bad way to go. Yet you persist. So:

You are obviously a very smart person who learns from his mistakes, and your suggestions should be taken with the utmost seriousness as neutral proposals to bring additional immersion into the game, and not mocked for the transparent attempt at making station camping easier that they clearly are not.

Now, go fix your sarcasm meter, as I think it just exploded.

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I know players that were around before the changes that gave us the current un-dock system. Listening to the stories of taking several minutes in some cases to be clear of the bumping that occurred so you could even try to align and warp makes me glad I never had to deal with it and I have no desire to be drug back into that bad dream.

If we cannot get our heads around some futuristic sling type system that shoots us out of a station because there is nothing visible to indicate it's existence then just think of a highway on ramp that allows your own engines to accelerate you before joining the out going flow of ships. Perhaps aided by a magnetic or other system that aids the engines of all ships in accelerating so they clear the un-dock area faster.