unclebeer

I took your advice and ditched the docking tutorial. Of course I had to change tactics and modify a stock ship for the docking ports. Had some comical errors; instead of modding the ship once and loading it up twice I did two different ships and of course screwed up on the docking ports so I was trying to dock a clampotron to a clampotron jr., but hey at least my ships were static at 3 meters apart in the correct orientation so I'd say I'm close. If I don't get it tonight I'll get it tomorrow. Still having difficulties with IJKL, but I'm one of those nerds who will just keep at it till I figure it out. I'll be building ridiculously unwieldy space stations in no time. Even if the docking tutorial wasn't terrible, this is the better way to do it IMO since F5 and F9 are disabled in the tutorial.

More specifically, I typically get within a few hundred meters before I really start having trouble. I got to within 65 meters one time before I really screwed things up. I've figured out how to cancel the relative velocity, point towards target retrograde and burn, my problem is catching up to the daggum thing once I get close. I know I'm missing something, because I've never seen this thing from the image shared above-

I can get into orbit all day long, buy I've been flying the docking tutorial for like 3 days now

I got this game several years ago and only put about 40 hours on it before I gave up due to insufficient hardware. In the meantime I played Spaceflight Simulator (Android) for awhile, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Fast forward to last week and I got a new gaming laptop. I'm flying (and re-flying) tutorials now to get acquainted with the navball and various markers. Taking my time as much as possible. I'll be back soon with lots of stupid questions. Peace!