Thank you for the Flight Assist Module

[Olivia Vespera]

Hi folks, I've been trying out the flight assist module on Distant Worlds.


I wanted to see how it could help me in the game. What I found is that it was really useful if you don't mind that it takes a lot longer to get to a planetary body in question.
I really liked it! Thanks for including it.

Thanks to it's ability to automatically orbit a planet that it arrives at, I have been able to use the flight assist module to create stitched maps of planets.
It becomes easier to do this now. So Thank you dev team who built this!

Now with that said, these are some suggestions I had.
The one thing I've noticed it doesn't do is orbit stars. I would have loved to watch the gravitational lensing of a black hole while automatically orbiting it. Is there a game balancing reason why this wasn't implemented?
I've also heard that it doesn't do too well on ... i believe non-sequence stars like L and N types. mostly because their exclusion zone is rather massive.

 

[Micha]

Shame it's not available at Explorer's Anchorage.. would have been nice to put into the new slot on my KraitMk2 before continuing with DW2!

 

[corous]

It's good for short afk but honestly it's very inefficient. It slows down to about 75% from the start even when the body is very far, usually you only slow down from 100% when ETA is below 10 sec.

Instead you can use "set throttle to 75%" key when you are below 10sec and then you'll never have to re-enter.

But yeah if you are exploring while being semi-afk then it's kinda useful.

 

[Micha]

It's good for short afk but honestly it's very inefficient.

Good. It -should- be (quite a bit) less efficient than a competent pilot. Otherwise where's the incentive to fly manually if it's as good or better than manual piloting?