[X3AP] Military Base undocking issues

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Hi guys

In my recent game I've run into a problem with undocking from the Military Bases.

First time this happened was trying to undock my M7C Guppy from the Empire's Edge Military Base. Game is not frozen, but when I try to undock, nothing happens, it's like the ship tries to undock but in a split second the Station tab reopens. I also tried using autopilot 'idle' and 'jump to' etc. but nothing worked.

I thought it was just a glitch and reloaded once but it happened again so I reloaded from elsewhere and didn't go to that station anymore with that ship.

Second time it happened yesterday on my TP Angel on a similar station, Military Base in CEO's Sprite. Again, couldn't undock but all sounds and trade windows etc. work normally. This time my Guppy was outside and I ordered an M3 to the station, changed ship and launched from the internal dock just fine.

I tried to undock the TP remotely without luck IS, but when I went to the next sector I could remotely undock it OOS without any issue.

I'm running Steam AP with the bonus pack, vanilla.

[Alan Phipps]

Hi. That is a newish one to me but sounds a bit like the old X3TC issue where you buy a Chokaro from the Yaki Shipyard and cannot undock it when you are IS. That was because the Shipyard created it in a position or dock where it could not get away and so it insta-redocks.

The solution then, as you found, was to be OOS when telling it to undock.

Just as a confidence check, do the Steam verify gamefiles cache for both X3TC and X3AP separately just in case your station models have developed glitches.

One question if you have the saves to try it: do these issues still happen if you request permission to dock and manually dock at the green icon, or if you let the AI dock the ship, all without using the Docking Computer that might 'transport' you straight into an unsuitable dock with no viable escape route?

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I will try that and see, thank you Alan. I'll verify the game files and try to reproduce the glitch after that, see how it goes.

In the meantime I better prepare an M3 with a large cargohold full of e-cells ready to jump anywhere to my assistance, in case this happens again.