Exploding inside OTAS Shipyard when undocking

[Vector_Gorgoth]

The docking bay door slams shut (!?) the instant I undock and my ship explodes. 3.2; bonus pack only; no other mods.

[X2-Illuminatus]

That's a known problem of the big (Super) shipyards, when undocking with corvettes and similar sized ships from the internal docking bays. A workaround is to let the autopilot of your ship undock it, by giving one of the navigation commands like Idle, Fly to sector or Move to position. When you do this, the collision detection will be turned off for a couple of seconds allowing you to undock without hitting the closing docking bay doors.

[Vector_Gorgoth]

IIRC, hasn't this been an issue for, like, years?

[Alan Phipps]

Yes it has, but the simple workaround has been repeated here for years too. No-one will be likely to change the ship or station models in vanilla X3 from here on so you will continue to need to be aware of the possibility and where it happens. Autosave on docking gives players a great reload position for non-DiD games where this happens.

[astreus]

I focused many of this issues.
-My dragon (playership=IS) explode after undock from hammer-torp. fac in Akeelas Beacon. Undocking (switch ship) with a M5 and looking whats going on, I saw that a part of the station construction runs through the stern of my dragon! Using the docking computer nothing happens at docking but after undock-crash! Simply undock with other ship (best M5) -> leave sector, any OOS command will now work, Dragon undock OOS with no problem.

- My Teladi TL (playership=IS) docks ok (manually, no docking computer) at Terracrops HQ but no way to undock without crash. Even a tiny antenna, when hit, causes game over. Solution is the same: Change ship, undock with M5 and command TL OOS.

-Sometimes I found myself - using a TM or a TS as playership - inside a typical fighter hangar, wall very close to me. Thanks to the docking computer I m still alive. But just as long as I do not push the undock button! -> Change ship.......

I now playing DID and I 've learned from that other 'saveable versions'. In DID I never dock or undock with M6 or bigger. Best to dock with a fighter. I also do not jump with M7 as playership or bigger. Too dangerous. And off course, never - ever, trust your autopilot!

[X2-Illuminatus]

No-one will be likely to change the ship or station models in vanilla X3 from here on so you will continue to need to be aware of the possibility and where it happens.

Although I know that that the OP plays X3TC, just for completeness let me add that this bug was fixed in X3AP Update 3.0.