Suggesting a new navigation ball vector

[Catapadurariu]

Hi guys ! Awesome game !

I purchased the game recently and got to play a lot with it, visited some planets and moons, and became a pro at rendezvous (Back when using the early access alpha, i didn't understand rendezvous that much).

Also, i don't like mods, so my experience is limited to the stock game.

The new vector i'm proposing has to do with rendezvous, but has ulterior utilisations wich i may go into later.

When doing a rendez-vous, on the final approach, corrections must be continually made by using RCS translation, to keep your prograde vector on top of the target vector.

However, sometimes you forget to put RCS on your ship and you're dead in the water, mostly unable to dock (or rather, having great difficulty to do it.)

Whenever docking with no RCS, i imagine a point that is in a position such that the target vector is in the middle between the prograde and the new (imaginary) vector, when navball is set to "target".When firing at that imaginary vector, the prograde vector is moved on top of the target vector and velocity to target increases, but i'm headed directly for the target ship without drifting to the side.Then, i turn around retrograde and match velocities on the last stretch, switch to the target evssel to rotate it facing a docking port towards my RCS-less ship and Voila - i'm docked.

Problem is, there's a lot of guess work and my imaginary vector isn't actually shown on the navball.

My suggestion is the implementation of this vector, and make it trackable by probe cores / "Fly-by-wire" hubs.

Now on to Alternative uses : STOCK PARTS HOMING MISSILES !! <- I rest my case

[Hcube]

just... just use RCS ? I think that not being able to dock without RCS (or having a very hard time doing it) is actually a good and interesting feature

Welcome to the forums by the way !

[mitko]

If I were to suggest a new navball symbol it would be one that is opposite of the active navigation mark so that we can see where it is when we are landing on it.

[KrazyKrl]

I can think of only 2 things we need on the navball:

• Docking port orientation on the navball, pretty much just navball docking port allignment indicator mod.
  
• A "Hairline" overlayed on the navball; of which connects Target/Prograde and Anti-target/Retrograde; it should swap colors when halfway around, denoting retrograde. (Because you "pull" the prograde marker to your heading, but "push" retrograde away from your thrust heading.)