Consistent docking speed?

[PromX]

I know it is just a small thing, that can be overcome by pursaching docking computer, but still, i find a little silly, that every ship has its own docking speed it must obey, that is somehow derived from its maximum speed.

It would be much more immersive, for example, if all m3,m4 and m5 together would have standardized speed to dock with. The same would of course apply for each type of ships (m6, m7 etc) individually or grouped together. That one m6 can dock 80m/s and another one 30m/s makes no sence to me.

[MrFiction]

What game? In X3:AP I think it's always 40 m/s. At least that's what I assume. When I'm not using autopilot or a docking computer I usually slow down some more because I think 40 m/s would be too fast if this was real life.

[PromX]

No, the max speed at which you can dock is a given percentage of all ships maximum speeds. Just try it with a slow ship and then with a very fast one.

[Alan Phipps]

In some X games, the max docking speed is 40 m/s or one quarter of the ship's max speed, whichever is the greater. Also purely manual docking and AI autodocking (autopilot not by docking computer) may act quite differently as regard to max docking speed for the faster ships.