Hello. I made a post about this earlier in the exploration forum but I figured I should put it here too.
Lots of systems have populations, stations, outposts, etc. but start out completely unmapped, requiring you to go to the system and map it yourself if you want to see its system map. I was thinking, since people live there, that doesn't make much sense, at least for systems in the bubble.
I mean, come on.
There was, supposedly, an option to buy the maps of any populated system within 20ly if you are docked at a station. However, upon testing this, I found that the button is redded out regardless, ensuring that the only way to map these systems is to visit them.
My proposal is thus to make it possible and then easier to buy system maps without actually visiting them yourself- increasing the 20ly cutoff to something a bit more reasonable would be a definite good start. Allowing these purchases to be made in-flight would be good too, but not as necessary. Obviously, for the further-out areas such as the various nebula outposts, Colonia route stops, and Colonia itself, actually visiting them should be incentivized, so the distance limit shouldn't be done away with entirely. Just something like 100 or 200ly, enough to allow someone to acquire a map of the whole bubble without travelling to every nook and cranny of it at least.
Thank you.
Lots of systems have populations, stations, outposts, etc. but start out completely unmapped, requiring you to go to the system and map it yourself if you want to see its system map. I was thinking, since people live there, that doesn't make much sense, at least for systems in the bubble.
I mean, come on.
There was, supposedly, an option to buy the maps of any populated system within 20ly if you are docked at a station. However, upon testing this, I found that the button is redded out regardless, ensuring that the only way to map these systems is to visit them.
My proposal is thus to make it possible and then easier to buy system maps without actually visiting them yourself- increasing the 20ly cutoff to something a bit more reasonable would be a definite good start. Allowing these purchases to be made in-flight would be good too, but not as necessary. Obviously, for the further-out areas such as the various nebula outposts, Colonia route stops, and Colonia itself, actually visiting them should be incentivized, so the distance limit shouldn't be done away with entirely. Just something like 100 or 200ly, enough to allow someone to acquire a map of the whole bubble without travelling to every nook and cranny of it at least.
Thank you.
Last edited:
