A quick query, as my search skills are failing me here: what tools currently exist to find routes in sparse regions (i.e. where synth boosts will be needed)?
The impression I get is that there isn't all that much interest in such tools nowadays, as jump ranges are so long that there aren't many places where the in-game route plotter can't do the job. The much more common case of finding waypoints for neutron jumping or POIs for exploration is of course well served by existing web tools, but they all assume that the in-game router can get you to the waypoints. In my situation, I'm attempting to reach some very distant points and I'm curious if there is any tool that can tell me if I'll be able to make it there at all with my jump range. For instance, my current destination is the very tip of the Sag-Car arm west of Beagle. I can see in EDSM that it's had a few visitors, and I even found the flight log of a player that had been there. However following the route they took wouldn't be very practical: that player's ship has about 20 LY on mine in base range, so I'd be burning a lot of basic synth materials to follow it directly, and the route included some jumps that are longer than even the premium-boosted range of my ship.
So in principle it wouldn't be hard to download the EDSM catalog for the region - it's sparse so there aren't that many stars to contend with - and write a jumponium-aware A* pathfinder. (The one in EDTS isn't jumponium aware AFACT.) But I'm wondering if something like that already exists and is currently maintained and in good working order?
The impression I get is that there isn't all that much interest in such tools nowadays, as jump ranges are so long that there aren't many places where the in-game route plotter can't do the job. The much more common case of finding waypoints for neutron jumping or POIs for exploration is of course well served by existing web tools, but they all assume that the in-game router can get you to the waypoints. In my situation, I'm attempting to reach some very distant points and I'm curious if there is any tool that can tell me if I'll be able to make it there at all with my jump range. For instance, my current destination is the very tip of the Sag-Car arm west of Beagle. I can see in EDSM that it's had a few visitors, and I even found the flight log of a player that had been there. However following the route they took wouldn't be very practical: that player's ship has about 20 LY on mine in base range, so I'd be burning a lot of basic synth materials to follow it directly, and the route included some jumps that are longer than even the premium-boosted range of my ship.
So in principle it wouldn't be hard to download the EDSM catalog for the region - it's sparse so there aren't that many stars to contend with - and write a jumponium-aware A* pathfinder. (The one in EDTS isn't jumponium aware AFACT.) But I'm wondering if something like that already exists and is currently maintained and in good working order?
