I spent a good 5 minutes wondering why I couldn't select the Cobra I had just brought to the station at the lift rather than at the Intra Astra desk, IMHO it would would be more immersive for the ship selection function to be moved from the Intra Astra desk to the lift button.
Ship selection should be done at the lift, not Intra Astra
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Yes, absolutely! Why even have the lifts offer a menu rather than just opening the door, if there's only one place that they can ever go?
It makes sense to go to the Ship place to get a ship out of storage - the lift is just a 'select destination' screen and it's not like they would keep all of your ships docked all the time!
I was also thinking that watching your ship arrive would be cool. Also you could walk around it and modify the loadout but selecting things and changing what is mounted there.. Sure the top side items could be a challenge but I am sure we can think of a way around that... Even a loadout terminal in the hanger ?
Nah, this is the future. We have consoles for this kind of thing. Having to line up to talk to desk clerks is so old fashioned.
There should be a console at the lift (which would be used when we interact with the lift) as well as another console down in the ship area.
I get what you are saying.. for moving ships about and seeing your overall 'account' you can go to the ship store but why you could not be asked which ship (from the list in that location) is beyond me..
I would want to go to the lift, elect the ship I want to be taken to (read hanger) and then when I arrive be presented with a terminal that I can use if I wish to change things on the ship in front of me.
I like this idea, not sure how we would deal with different pad sizes though?
Anyone discover how you can get rid of your last ship, and return to being on foot only?
Or is it a one way trip to the stars?
Or is it a one way trip to the stars?
Apologies if I am misunderstanding but you dock, enter hanger and choose the disembark option...
Adding a selection on the lift was the first thing I expected. Maybe they don't allow multiple destination, which is a bit weird, but I guess it would get out of hand if you have 40 ships in one station. Ah well, most peoplw manage to work it out
Seconded.
The menu on the lifts would make sense if it allows you to select a ship, otherwise it's pointless.
So either allow us to select the ship on lifts, or remove the menu
You have to have a ship at all times - we even did in Alpha 1 - but you don't have to use it.
In that case I guess it's because of the 'which of these 40 ships?' issue. Plus it would get confusing once you have multiple of the same type - though you would think they could use the ship name ...
Yup, ship name, call sign, anything. I'd prefer seeing "board the Moldy Crow" instead of "board sidewinder"
Ok, it makes sense again then.
Yeah, I might add that into the general feedback thread - even if they can't let us select a specific ship it would be nice if they used it's name if it has one.
All your ships are stored in your private hangars at the shipyard. You should ask InterAstra to deliver your ship in a public hangar which is in the docking bay. The point is you cannot occupy more than one public hangar. Imagine if you have 100 ships and you can choose them at the lift. That means all your ships are already in the docking bay. But there are no so much hangars. So choosing the ship at InterAstra is absolutely right decision IMO.