Route Plotter could use love developer love

[Webgear]

Right now I'm flying without a fuel scoop, and my two choices in route plotting are economical and fastest routes. Fastest has me there in 4 jumps, but short 1 jump of fuel. Eco gets me there in 9 jumps, no problem.

In reality though, I could make it in 5 jumps, 3 at fastest and 2 at eco, which is what I did.

So devs, maybe add a third option that gets you to destination with almost empty tanks, which in my case is what happened but the station was close to the star so all ended well.

 

[Martyn W]

I would like to have the ability to plot route by hand i.e. be able to mark each waypoint in a route that I choose and not have to follow the default waypoints selected by the route plotter.

 

[Stabby_Dave]

I would like to have the ability to plot route by hand i.e. be able to mark each waypoint in a route that I choose and not have to follow the default waypoints selected by the route plotter.

This has been on people's wish list for a long time. Don't hold your breath, sadly.

 

[VR CMDR Novindus]

I would like to have the ability to plot route by hand i.e. be able to mark each waypoint in a route that I choose and not have to follow the default waypoints selected by the route plotter.

If/while they’re at it, allow players to autoplot and then make changes to the jumps in the route.

 

[Uchuu]

I would like to have the ability to jump with 90% of my max jumprange. So you can allmost double your jumps per fueltank. The percentage should be variable. This would be great for ships like the Vulture or FDL.

 

[Martyn W]

Yes to both the above ideas. In fact there's probably a lot more that could be done without too much coding needed. For example as each waypoint is manually plotted in the G map we could be informed of distance and fuel usage for that particular jump, estimated fuel remaining and more.