This kind of detailed feedback is what keeps me going. I greatly appreciate it!
I agree landings now are too finicky to be interesting. I think it's a combination of a few things:
- The fatal speed is pretty low, & it's not clear what landing speed the ship is currently at; especially hard when zoomed out
- Damage relates to speed at point of contact; if you rotate towards the ground while landing, that increases contact speed
- When landed, moving the mouse still rotates the ship, which can be fatal on the Moon (the RCS overpower the weak gravity)
Fixing this is high prio right now. Once this is done I'd be curious if that encourages more landing & refueling.
More variety in ship to ship combat would be really cool (maybe with smarter AI), although this will be probably out of scope for the next update. I also have a new prototype in the works that I want to work on next (updates in the newsletter if you're not already on it :) )
What do you mean by docking by the way, I don't see any ship to dock to here so I'm probably misunderstanding?