Do the cross-grid messaging system so that any number of client ships would request for free docking ports with arbitrary orientation.
Do dock to moving/rotating host.
Do engine thrust vector that the ship could go to dock in one straight move.

+ support for pure gravity ships with no thrusters

Thanks, I'll probably work on them next to be honest. The messaging system could come first as I've programmed one for my own personal use, it just isn't flexible enough yet for adding to my optional script. Moving to match a moving host is already being worked on. Originally I had programmed an engine thrust vector style thing with one move however I changed it a bit for a load of added safety, I've gone for caution over speeding towards the docking port.

Pure gravity ships shouldn't be hard to implement with the code I've got, in fact I wouldn't need to change much, but I'll leave that for a bit and work on the other stuff

Can you add the option that the ship would be aligned with the home connector orientation at a specified distance from the connector and then the ship dock (with the support of the moving home ship)?

It would be useful to prevent ship damage when there is little space for rotation.

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Can you add the option that the ship would be aligned with the home connector orientation at a specified distance from the connector and then the ship dock (with the support of the moving home ship)?

It would be useful to prevent ship damage when there is little space for rotation.

Do you mean something such as, moving away from the connector, then spinning to face it, then moving in to dock?
Currently there is a variable at the top of the script that is called "connectorClearance" in meters. If the ship is closer than this, it will spin to face the dock, move away to the connector clearence distance, then move to dock.
However it seems you'd like it to not spin before moving away which I might try and add in the future.

Yes,

first, fly over the connector, second turn in the right direction (at a certain distance), and finally drop down.

Btw, it seems to me that it does not work well with the moded connector, namely the VCZ Airtight Connector, but it may be just my simple test ship.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add that onto the to-do list. I'll check out that connector mod and try to recreate your problem. I can imagine there could be an issue with mod connectors and the strength, too weak or strong a connector and the spinning won't work. Maybe try setting "spinsWhenConnected" to false at the top section of the script. If that isn't the issue there's a chance it's not compatible but I don't see why connector mods shouldn't work.

is there a function planed where upon dock a timer is started or triggered?
would be usefull for automated transport drones which then can return after a set time on a connector at a mining station or something similar

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is there a function planed where upon dock a timer is started or triggered?
would be usefull for automated transport drones which then can return after a set time on a connector at a mining station or something similar

Ah I like it. That would be very easy to add, might do that soon.

Suicide_Jack - That feature has now been added. add the tag "[Dock]" to your timer and it'll start once docked.

Is it possible to do the same thing with mergeblocks?

https://forum.keenswh.com/threads/programmable-block-inter-grid-communication-guide.7392031/

Be nice if the station/master could communicate with the ship/slave so in situations like drones and other things you could remotely trigger 1 or 100 drones to RTB/return to base. Even better if they avoided eachother.

@DumbTrollFace I could and I might but not just yet as I'm working on a few other updates.

Rndsum - That wouldn't be too difficult to do. Although the collision avoidance is a lot of work and something i'll consider adding later down the road. Full drone recall is a feature that I could certainly add though, thanks for the suggestion