How do you...

Hi there,


I am trying to figure out how to plot in advance one jump past my intended destination so as to high wake there if interdicted.

When I use the galaxy map course plotting function, if I plot a close next star to my intended destination, my intended destination gets bypassed. I haven't been able to figure out how the get my intended destination included.

Thank you for your help.
 
Hi there,


I am trying to figure out how to plot in advance one jump past my intended destination so as to high wake there if interdicted.

When I use the galaxy map course plotting function, if I plot a close next star to my intended destination, my intended destination gets bypassed. I haven't been able to figure out how the get my intended destination included.

Thank you for your help.

Simple you can't, best thing is jump to your intended destination and first thing choose a high-wake system from the navigation panel on the left (Scroll up, quicker than scrolling through all bodies in current system). Individual plotting of systems is not a thing at the moment.
 
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you can bookmark a close escape system, then after jumping it takes 2 seconds in the galactic map to select while clearing the sun.
Fastest i can get it down to.

Cheers,
Metkis
 
you can bookmark a close escape system, then after jumping it takes 2 seconds in the galactic map to select while clearing the sun.
Fastest i can get it down to.

Cheers,
Metkis

And with a little voice attack, you could break it down to a command and maybe take even more time off.
I may have to try that.
 
Overjumping isn't guaranteed as a replot past where you want to go may route you away from the star you actually want to go to. BUT find the nearest star to the star you do want to jump to and select that. If that fails, then follow the other advice and plot once in the destination system.
 
Maybe, before the jump to your intended destination, switch to economic nav (or what ever its called)... Would a bit of fiddling with that do it?
 
you can bookmark a close escape system, then after jumping it takes 2 seconds in the galactic map to select while clearing the sun.
Fastest i can get it down to.

Cheers,
Metkis

And how long does it take for the galaxy map to open? I think it would be faster to use the Nav panel; plus then you don't have to create and delete bookmarks all the time.

You should be able to select a close system from the Nav panel while boosting away and waiting for your FSD to cool down after submitting to the interdiction.
 
And how long does it take for the galaxy map to open? I think it would be faster to use the Nav panel; plus then you don't have to create and delete bookmarks all the time.

You should be able to select a close system from the Nav panel while boosting away and waiting for your FSD to cool down after submitting to the interdiction.

Yes of course Sibyl, yes, yes, yes ahhh yes, ......
(but you are right + rep)
you can also KILL the interdictor :)

Cheers Cmdr's
 
Thank you so much for the suggestions!


I thought that was the case, that once you arrived you need to plot escape jump.

But there is one other thing, if you select a station to go to after you arrive then you disconnect the next system jump plot, right?

Which means that you have to wait for the interdiction as you go to the station, and then after submitting plot the escape to another system, right?

Thanks all.
 
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Thank you so much for the suggestions!


I thought that was the case, that once you arrived you need to plot escape jump.

But there is one other thing, if you select a station to go to after you arrive then you disconnect the next system jump plot, right?

Which means that you have to wait for the interdiction as you go to the station, and then after submitting plot the escape to another system, right?

Thanks all.

Set a key to select next star in your route. Mine is set to the "y" key.
 
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Set a key to select next star in your route. Mine is set to the "y" key.

Hi there,

Yes, that is what I do not understand. I'm just missing something obvious.

I have M set to Select Next Star as Target. But how do you get that to work when you have targeted a station or a moon in the system you are in and you are traveling in super cruise toward that station...or when you get interdicted out of super cruise? Doesn't targeting that station wipe any previous target selections like another star?

Thanks.
 
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Hi there,

Yes, that is what I do not understand. I'm just missing something obvious.

I have M set to Select Next Star as Target. But how do you get that to work when you have targeted a station or a moon in the system you are in and you are traveling in super cruise toward that station...or when you get interdicted out of super cruise? Doesn't targeting that station wipe any previous target selections like another star?

Thanks.

No, it works like this..

I've plotted a course through 6 star systems. I decide to stop at a station to refuel at the 3 rd system, or enter a USS. Losing my route in navigation.

Once i have done my business, I press the next target in route button and it rejoins the previously targeted system in my journey.
 
Rather than using the GalMap, which takes too long to open, just open the left menu and scroll down until it shows the systems within jump range. Selecting one from there takes seconds, especially if you don't really care which system.
 
As suggested, pick a system from the left hand panel, and as was mentioned earlier scroll UP the nav list rather than down, because when you scroll down that list you sometimes have dozens in planets, stations etc to scroll through before you get to the first external star system. Scrolling upwards from the bottom of the list you'll be selecting a star system straight off.


And with a little voice attack, you could break it down to a command and maybe take even more time off.
I may have to try that.


Why didn't you say so - I did this over the weekend. Using VA2 - which I think is still beta but working fine: I set bookmarks in the galaxy map for systems I'm interested in, only have 10 or so there so you'll have to adapt if you have too many I guess. I used the cursor move command and the click left mouse command to select the bookmarks tab, then a route1/rouye2/route3.... command that uses mouse move to select the actual tab, click on it (LC mouse), shift mouse right (the y coord doesn't change) and click again to select the 'plot route' option.
There are also ways to do it with the built in tab functions, I just found this easier.
As the Galaxy map seems to vary a lot in time taken to display I use three commands to auto set a tabbed route
1) Command 'Galaxy map' to open the map, once it's visible....
2) 'Route 1...10 ' as appropriate
3) 'Exit map' to finish
That way no need to build in a longish pause to ensure the map is open before the mouse starts clicking.
I'd give you screen cords for x and y but they 'll vary with resolution set....they're easy enough to obtain using the VA 'read cursor position' routine in the mouse move command setup anyway.

If you are into powerplay a similar set of routines will autoload your cargo bay while you sleep - mine loads 400t then exits the game, shuts down Steam, then shuts the PC down....
Dave
 
Thanks Fennster, et al,

That was what I was missing...that the target next system will rejoin the chain, or target the next selected system previously targeted before you exit super cruise for whatever reason..
 
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