Tell me if somebody's working on docking.
TL;DRDocking is being worked on, including a docking-collar fix that was resolved but reopened after failing on the network, plus collision loss that ejects players and cargo services not answering hails.
Correct. Let's talk about docking. The very first one: "unable to dock using docking collars." That is problematic, isn't it? We looked at this this morning and it was actually resolved when we were talking. It is now reopened. So we're going to have to dive into that. But basically, docking is a subject that's always coming back. And this patch has also been contributing to the overpopulation of ships, because players would just basically land on pads and leave the ships there, where there's no impound. And so that's a big issue. So the first one is unable to dock using docking collars.
So I can quickly just go on: when you say it's resolved and then reopened, what happens there is the developers, to the best of their abilities, found the issue, they've fixed the issue, they've tested the issue locally, and then gone, it's solid. I know how to cause the error, I put a fix in, I validated it, I've resolved it and solved the issue. But obviously, in this case, where it sounds like the feature is not working at all, clearly there is a situation that either they didn't predict or that doesn't happen on a local machine. Again, we talked about that.
It works on my machine, but the second it got up to network validation, it fell down.
That said, I will say that we have a very, very impressive setup for locally running what is a replica of what we play in live, which is amazing. It's an amazing system.
We call them the CIG dev kits.
But yeah, unfortunately, in this case, clearly.
"After manually docking a vehicle, there is a chance for the docking bridge to lose collision, causing the actor to start to EVA." Most likely close to another issue we've seen on the command module about managing physics skip lists, which is how we skip elements from collision in certain cases from a given perspective.
Is this when you're trying to dock and it ends up just ejecting you out into space?
Yes.
You don't want the docking collar to collide with your ship and cause lots of problems there, right? There's a period in time when the two are trying to get together.
"Cargo services will not respond to hails, making players unable to request cargo loading zone," related to ATC and docking in this case. That's another one we're looking at.