I was thinking about re-visiting all my old pre-FSS exploration journeys, but since I can't actually remember where I've been, I can't for the life of me think of a way to do it. Oh, I suppose I could filter the galmap for visited stars and then check every single one for the old skool level-1 scans but that would take approximately seventy bajillion years just to find them all, let alone calculate a route. Is there some way I could extract data from journals and/or edsm? (Yes I upload all my journals to edsm) Maybe looking for any stars I visited prior to whatever date the FSS was added to the game, at an arbitrary distance of more than 500ly from Sol.
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wow - that will be some spreadsheet - anyone written a program to route using 100k systems???
I have but it's in R, not exactly the most common language out there. The problem is not plotting, but getting the coordinates. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with querying EDSM 100k times.
The game totally freaks out if you try and force it via visited stars only, you end up having to manually plot every jump after a while.
If you pull the EDSM dumps you don't need to query EDSM every time, just pull the data into a db and query your co-ords that way.
If you pull the EDSM dumps you don't need to query EDSM every time, just pull the data into a db and query your co-ords that way.
Good to know. Obviously I haven't spent much time retracing my steps. (usually the opposite, I try to avoid it)
When I did my "Operation Consequence of your Actions" (ie rejumping 1274 jumps), I had to manually plot pretty much every one.
When you're in a system, and there's only ONE visited system nearby, it seems that filtering to "Visited" doesn't actually work - it just fails to plot.
It's very VERY hard to force the galmap through a specific route I've found.
When you're in a system, and there's only ONE visited system nearby, it seems that filtering to "Visited" doesn't actually work - it just fails to plot.
It's very VERY hard to force the galmap through a specific route I've found.
They'll be in the order they were visited before - so just start at one end and go to the other
I recently had to retrace my route through an entire 1400-star core sector survey after exploding; I was using the Visited Stars filter to retrace my course. I found that the route plotter was very erratic and patchy; sometimes I could plot a 40-star route clear across the sector, no troubles, sometimes I'd have to plot star by star. It seemed to depend on which direction I was travelling in, more than anything - I seem to recall going Up was much easier than going Down. Just leaving the galaxy map open for a few minutes before asking it to plot a route also seemed to help in extending the route plotter's range, though if the goal is retracing the route as fast as possible, then such frequent pausing probably doesn't help.
I could swear that one of the EDSM files contained the information about the discoverer. But I can't find this information any longer in said files.
It's also data that isn't really needed, so removing it will cut down the size of the dumps.
You can still get the information via the API if I remember.I also think the bodies JSON dump has the discoverer data in it (so you could essentially attribute the system discovery to the person who discovered the primary star ?) EDIT: No longer there.
You can still get the information via the API if I remember.
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