Comment by codeulike
2 years ago
The trick was to get perfectly perpendicular to the face of the spacestation that had the docking slot. But that was very hard to do visually. You had to fly directly away, turn around and watch the space station very carefully as it rotated to see if the rotation was symettrical from your point of view. Then approach slowly, match spin, but dont go too slow that actually made it harder. But even then would be game over one time in 20 or so.
Re:docking, if you went far away from the station, then kept it aligned in your crosshairs as you approached, you would be perpendicular to the front face of the station. Once I figured that out I could dock every time. I don’t think you needed to match the rotation of the station at all (at-least, not in BBC micro disk Elite).
That was probably it: not being quite perpendicular. Oh well!
Yes, I remember having pretty good success with this strategy.