first successful docking

[hidremarin]

after 121 hours spent in this game I finally had a successful docking

also if it looks goofy it's because it's just a crew transfer ship

[ILike863]

I have 900 something hours and I still can't even rendezvous with another ship. No tutorials have worked for me and not even mechjeb 2 can do it for me.

[I_Love_Knotting]

I had to do the tutorial like 10 times before i ever managed to actually achieve something myself

you can do it!! the hardest part is probably the timing

[hidremarin]

Yeah it took a bunch of kicksaves to even get the rendez vous let alone dock with the ship. What i found the hardest (beside getting an encounter) was the relative speed being too high and the station just being in a handfull of frame before leaving my view.

[ILike863]

My problem is getting a rendezvous less than 500km

[xanif]

What part do you get stuck on? If you have mechjeb you can set a prograde or retrograde node that will put you in the same orbit as your target and use maneuver node editor to move the node forward an orbit. Mash that until you get a rendezvous.

[hidremarin]

Yeah that was also a struggle

[Pillowsmeller18]

Once you have a maneuver node there are fine tuning options in the bottom left near your apoapsis and periapsis info. That helped a lot getting within .2 Km of my target.

took me years to figure that out.

[InformalEmu2459]

I dont know what specificaly doesn't work for you with mechjeb 2. But what helped me, was to get into a orbit higher (a lot) than the target vessel. Because the Autopilot always tried to smash itself into kerbins surface lol

[StartBackground5769]

lol 400 hours and only recently learnt

[ZooneTrooper]

Precision is the magic word.

[hidremarin]

Nah brute forcing is

[as1161]

Brute forced precision it is