Problem with bases docking

[St.Denis]

Happened yesterday
On the helium POB next to eerie
I dock, leave
And then when I want to dock again it says your papers are not good here
(hogosha default Id, iff)

This is a problem that a few have been calling the 'docking bug'.

It appears that when the Server gets a bit laggy, ships can't dock and they get the 'your papers are not good here' message or one of the other similar messages.

Generally it will go away after a couple of minutes, but I have waited up to 20 minutes before giving up and docking on an NPC Base.

I noticed something last night that was strange, I was following another ship who literally got to the POB about 2 seconds before me. He dock successfully, but I got the 'can't dock here message'.

Whilst I was waiting for the POB to allow me to dock, another ship came along and docked. This left me rather bemused as I still couldn't.

Having slept on it, I have just checked something. My Tag is listed as 1 of the allowable Tags. The 2 Ships that docked were not on the list of allowable Tags, but were allowed due to the Defence Setting Whitelist.

So it might be worth checking if this issue is due to Tags/names added via the /addtag command.

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[Champ]

Would anyone with personal experience of this error like to write up a bug report? Not because I'm being pass. agg., but just because you'll keep a better track of it than I will.

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[St.Denis]

Would anyone with personal experience of this error like to write up a bug report? Not because I'm being pass. agg., but just because you'll keep a better track of it than I will.

Done

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'I would like to be half as clever as some people like to believe they are'
Life is full of disappointments, it is how we handle them that helps to define us, as a person

[Skorak]

That allowed tag vs iff allowance is an interesting detail.

Good spotting.

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