Automated landing currently forces you to fly down to the docking ports before you're able to activate it. Are there any plans to increase the distance from which this feature can be activated, allowing for easier landing in some of these tighter situations?
TL;DRExtending the automated landing activation distance hasn't been discussed internally yet; it would need to be tried out, and could be raised through the new gameplay review process.
We haven't talked about it internally, but to me, I would have to see if we can try it out and see what it looks like and see how it feels.
When we were arriving at ArcCorp before the start of last week's show, speaking as a player, I called the ATC and I got the clearance and I saw the path, and there was a point where I thought I should be close enough to trigger the thing. It kept wanting me to get closer. It seemed like it should be triggerable farther away than it was.
Basically, we've adjusted some of the way we do things internally. A lot of times when we're doing releases, we get a lot of bugs that are criticals and blockers, and those get the love. We've created a gameplay review aspect, and that to me would be under that gameplay review. So if there's any QA, we can talk about that and we can get that entered in just to talk about it and see what kind of adjustments we can do.