26,000ly+ route plotting!

varonica

varonica
Now that's an interesting thing!

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The route plotter won't let me plot a route to a star more than 20,000ly away, but if it's a system I have visited before I can plot a route to a planet in the system and it works succesfully for distances greater than 20,000ly. This is in Odyssey, is it reproducible by others or is it just me?
 

jacob99

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I've managed to reproduce it in Odyssey. I tried to do it was economic routing too and whilst you can plot the route by holding down on your target the route doesn't actually plot. Hopefully FDev don't catch onto this. :LOL:

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GreySix

GreySix
My exploration gameplay is in Horizons, since I could not long-distance plot a course in Odyssey.

Interesting to see others suffered the same limitation.
 

varonica

varonica
jacob99 said:
I've managed to reproduce it in Odyssey. I tried to do it was economic routing too and whilst you can plot the route by holding down on your target the route doesn't actually plot. Hopefully FDev don't catch onto this. :LOL:
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Yeah I tried economic routing as well, didn't work, however this is probably an Odyssey feature I won't have much use for, plotting a single route across the galaxy isn't something I expect ever to use!
 

Eahlstan

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I couldn't reproduce it yesterday when it came up on Discord, and I still can't do it.
Any special settings you're using?
 

varonica

varonica
Eahlstan said:
I couldn't reproduce it yesterday when it came up on Discord, and I still can't do it.
Any special settings you're using?
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Make sure you are targeting a planet in a known system, make sure route plotting is on fastest, don't set any star filters, use map mode and not realistic, also untick "apply filter to route" just in case, I think they are the only setting I used for the test. See what happens, I will check it again later, maybe FDEV have done sneaky server side patch to stop it happening!
 

varonica

varonica
Eahlstan said:
Nope, still can't do.
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You can't route directly to the star, it just gives you the normal invalid route message, make sure it's a planet or a moon, if you are doing everything right that's indeed strange then, maybe there's a permit locked region directly between you and the chosen destination?
 

jacob99

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varonica said:
You can't route directly to the star, it just gives you the normal invalid route message, make sure it's a planet or a moon, if you are doing everything right that's indeed strange then, maybe there's a permit locked region directly between you and the chosen destination?
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To add to the point about permit locked regions, I ran into an issue the first time I tried it when the route plotter had the standard error of being unable to plot through low star density regions which were on the route I was plotting. Perhaps that could be the issue?
 

varonica

varonica
jacob99 said:
To add to the point about permit locked regions, I ran into an issue the first time I tried it when the route plotter had the standard error of being unable to plot through low star density regions which were on the route I was plotting. Perhaps that could be the issue?
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Yes that could be it, I have a good jump range on my Phantom and was able to plot directly to Beagle Point, but if you are plotting through a low density area with a small jump range ship that will cause an issue!
 

Eahlstan

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I was wondering: Why should I target a planet in a known system? But I obeyed and jumped to a system known to UC (so fully sold) and targeted a planet with my ship.
I think I did it wrong :D

Anyways, sounds like an exploit, I'm not going to do the real thing.
 

varonica

varonica
Eahlstan said:
I was wondering: Why should I target a planet in a known system? But I obeyed and jumped to a system known to UC (so fully sold) and targeted a planet with my ship.
I think I did it wrong :D

Anyways, sounds like an exploit, I'm not going to do the real thing.
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A system known to you....you of course can't jump to a planet in a system that you have never been to unless it's something like Sol or one of the other automatically known systems because you can't open the system map to target a planet! That's why I targeted Beale Point, because I have been there and could access the system map.

It's obviously a bug but I wouldn't class it as an exploit because you still have to do all the jumping to get there, no faster in fact than using 4 routes less than 20,000ly, but I can't see a use for it myself, I never set routes for a maximum much more than a couple of thousand light years anyway, usually it's much shorter.
 

3navis

3navis
varonica said:
Just checking to see if I can plot a route to Beagle Point from near the bubble!

Took a while but here it is, 944 jumps, 64,210ly! lol!
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👏👏👏 Confirmed with a Phantom.

The calculation time is long (not very useful), but it works. It can be used to set up a complete route, marking favourites at 10k intervals, for example.
 

Eahlstan

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varonica said:
A system known to you....you of course can't jump to a planet in a system that you have never been to unless it's something like Sol or one of the other automatically known systems because you can't open the system map to target a planet! That's why I targeted Beale Point, because I have been there and could access the system map.
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Well my mind went "Strange bugs require strange circumstances to be triggered" :D
 
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