[TC] Earth docking problem

[Seathal]

Yeha, it's known in all X-Universe that the Torus Defence Grid likes to make target practice with your AI-driven ships trying to dock at Torus.

This problem's been there since the 1.01 version of the game. We're at 1.4 and it's still there. You might think Earth is useless... but well it would be _perfect_ for outfitting your ships with a jumpdrive and a transporter device.

Yes, for one, you just pilot your new shiny Terran ship built at The Moon to the Earth Torus, and that's it. But what about 10-20 Baldrics ready for UT/ST/EST duties? If you don't want to manually go back and forth transferring the damned jumpdrive you have to travel 15 sectors to Queen's Harbour, 25 to Home of Light choosing a safe route, or 21 going through a Xenon sector and 5 Pirate sectors. Not to mention you'll need heavy escorts in both cases because 20 TS's without jumpdrive at 110m/s is a very tempting target for any Pirate/Xenon/Khaak raid party.

In the case of fighters... well you can just bring a TL or M1 and jump with it... but you can't do that with TS/TL ships, without scripting the game even more.

I do find Earth useful and this problem bugs me a lot. I'd like to see the problem with the Torus fixed instead of messing up the patrol rewards and other nonsense.

[pollock2]

If want deliver jumprdrives to ships bysmall cheap ships load onto carrier and then go by jumpdrives . Jump carrier in and steal jump drives of your small ships easy or relatively easy

[drseuss620]

Not to mention the fact that any AI controlled ships trying to leave earth torus seem to sail right past the gate into outer space where the laser turrets deem off limits.

[Cycrow]

u should be able to get ships to dock there OOS in 1.4

i've managed to get all my ships to dock there without being destroyed, just as long as your not in the sector, as the AP cant navigate the torus properly

[TiGGs]

Yap, 1.4 worked for me. I tried to send a Rapier to the torus and it made it out in one piece.

[Lord of Nothing]

It's fixed?

(Leaps with joy and issues a general command to the dozens of ships waiting at the moon)

[Seathal]

Is it? REALLY? Gotta try alter. Seems that 1.4 actually fixed sommin!

[TiGGs]

Though I would always save before dispatching them to the torus. I ain't trusting the new patch yet.

[Etolf]

and save again before bringing them out!

[cswiger]

I managed to get a TS Baldric to dock at Earth and return to the Moon OOS. Yay!