A Practical Carrier for Disco

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Player ship docking by a FLHook command is easily possible.

This is interesting though. I wonder if formation's can be edited for this or if the barge innards is large enough that the preset formation positions allow you to stay close enough to be inside. So as the barge moves, your ship moves automatically, instead of having to try keep pace etc.

You would have to "fly" your fighter-bomber-gunboat inside the carrier but the barge has a 25kps top speed on thrust and takes three minutes to go to cruise in addition to turning like...a barge.

If I knew the "docking point" for formation it might barely be doable but not practically if you wanted a ship to fly inside while in formation--it would have to be very wide then and I doubt would be very dockable.

I'd love to see the FLhook idea done but even with that, the "fly inside" concept has some interesting tactical considerations.

It's just very easy to make a large hollow ship--simple.

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