Player Features and Ideas Discussion

One of those small things, but so insanely useful if it were possible. Sometimes you just make a mistake while anchoring, or things change in a way that you want the undock of a structure to point elsewhere. Please let us change the rotation of a structure every X days (maybe for a fee, I dunno). And gradually change the rotation over the course of 24/48/whatever hours. Or, if that's too large of a technological hurdle, have it changed after downtime.

Either way, would be a real quality of life thing to have :)

Not sure how it would mess with any of those things, really. What I'm talking about is just rotating the structure on its own axis, not moving it to a different location or up or down or anything like that. It would stay anchored, the only thing you'd be able to change is what way the undock is pointing.

Citadels aren't spheres, and they're not even particularly symmetrical. If I have an instant-dock bookmark right on the undocks from a Fortizar and the Citadel is rotated 90 degrees then when I warp to that bookmark I'll land inside the structure and bounce off.

Similarly if there is a Warp Disruption Bubble at that location it would be inside the Citadel after it rotates. Not a big deal, but potentially annoying and a bit immersion breaking.

Would be more work overall than what OP is talking about. The structures have pre-defined undock points on the model, and the model isn't designed to have parts of it rotating around.

Game objects like celestials, ore belts, NPC gate etc never move, so one has to wonder just exactly what has changed so that you want / need to reorient your structure?

If you need to because you simply screwed up then empty the thing, un-anchor it and then move it. Yes I know it is a pain in the arse but hey you screwed up to start with so there should be some pain involved in fixing it.

If you want to rotate it in response to something another player or group of players has done then we need to look at this carefully and determine if allowing you this easy rotation is a wise thing to do when they may have to wait out the time needed to un-anchor, move and re-anchor their structures.

My understanding may be seriously flawed but here goes anyway. Structures are anchored in space to prevent them from shifting position and that includes rotating the un-dock to face another direction. From this perspective how do you justify allowing a station to rotate without having to un-anchor it first? No because it would be cool, or because it would be easier is not a valid reason to change a long standing game mechanic, a mechanic that I think needs to stay.

With those out of the way.
Alter your idea so you have to wait out the timer for it to un-anchor, then you can rotate it and wait out the timer for it to anchor again this may be a workable idea as long as no one can access anything in, on or attached to the structure and any and all offensive or defensive system the structure may have are disabled until the entire process was complete and the structure was anchored again.