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From an user/add-on dev perspective what I would like to see above all is for the current handling of docking events to be changed to a more realistic one that incorporates the two stages of a docking sequence which are the initial soft capture (AKA "soft-dock") and the later hard capture ("hard-dock"). Currently only the second stage is simulated, somewhat. The first stage is critical as it serves actually capture the opposing docking mechanism and allow the relative velocities to dampen out as you have one vehicle more or less slamming into another and if things aren't entirely right, can lead to either a bounce off (best case scenario) or damage to either mechanism (worst case scenario) which would prohibit any future attempts at docking.
And the worst case scenario has indeed happened in real life when Soyuz-10 tried to dock to Salyut-1 and they forgot to deactivate the flight control system which caused physical damage to the docking mechanism of Soyuz-10: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz10.html
And the worst case scenario has indeed happened in real life when Soyuz-10 tried to dock to Salyut-1 and they forgot to deactivate the flight control system which caused physical damage to the docking mechanism of Soyuz-10: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz10.html