David Colson · Gameplay Programmer, Product Owner of the Vehicle Feature Team

So docking requires ports on the ships to match up. We're planning on two different, effectively, metrics or shape sizes of docking ports that are not compatible with each other. And so if you want to dock one port to a matching port, then they will work. If you want to dock that port to another size, then it won't. And I think most of the ships already have their docking ports there. I think, for example, the Constellation has the smaller docking port size on the sides, the round one, and then there's a larger docking port size. And then the stations will have docking ports of varying sizes, so that ships, particularly the larger ships that maybe are too big for the landing pads, will just dock with the station, particularly rest stops and things like that. But otherwise, yeah, docking is progressing. We're working on it at the moment and trying to resolve a lot of the issues that come up with it. There's some, shall we say, special cases where, for example, the Merlin docking with the Constellation, that's a special case because it doesn't use either of those two metrics. Another special case is the detachable command pod on the Caterpillar. So things like that. I think the Hull C is also an exception. So we need to work through how those are going to work and how we integrate them with the rest of the system.