Bookmark planet coordinates?
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If some form of plant side bookmarking is added in the Q4 update, I'll be surprised. I hope it's there but FDev have a habit of not doing what we think they should, and add other stuff.
According to official statement (can't find the source, as usual in such cases) FDEVs "don't see a gameplay value behind bookmark/navigation involving planetary coordinates". Hence the low priority.
Instead we have "quality and engaging gameplay" with lat/long coord counters.
Instead we have "quality and engaging gameplay" with lat/long coord counters.
Could be that a lot of the things we would likely bookmark are placed by the RND god and aren't persistant. I can't see a problem for bookmarking landmarks or well static items on a planet, it is something I would probably use a lot and get more players down on a surface. What worries me is if they aren't doing surface bookmarks for airless planets, does that mean we still won't be able to do it for atmospheric planets, where there should be heaps of interesting things to see!
The source was a stream from ages ago, I asked the question during the stream, and got the answer you butchered above lol.
Edit: Since that was asked, however, there have been a shed load of surface stuff added so I struggle to see how their comment is still valid.
This should be a priority,plus we should be able to set a waypoint on a planet,the current system of navigating to a point is not fun.
Seriously? You are joking right?
Planetary bookmarks and being able to share them with wingmates could be the setup for planetary canyon races?!?!?!?
The better statement in my opinion, would be... "FDev don't have anyone with the imagination to see a gameplay value behind bookmark/navigation involving player coordinates"
Player get-to-gethers
Player designed and run quests
General POI recording
Crashed ships locations
and a whole host more
Like I said, imagination key and apparently lacking...
One of the most useful features... well no we dont have it. Some fanboys will tell ya that its good because you need to apply "skill" to find the location ya been already.
In my eyes, there is no sane reason why we cant make our own bookmarks on the surface in this "sandbox" game with one of the biggest maps in gaming history - every moon or rocky planet that we can land on is bigger than ya average game map....
In my eyes, there is no sane reason why we cant make our own bookmarks on the surface in this "sandbox" game with one of the biggest maps in gaming history - every moon or rocky planet that we can land on is bigger than ya average game map....
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Hey grumpy, would you be so kind as to quote these fanboys you mentioned?
I don't think anyone has said that bookmarks for surface features is a bad idea, or isn't needed.
I dont like to "name names" but he will show up eventually I`m sure
So a typical statement by you with no correlation to the truth
In a livestream a while back someone asked Sandro about this in the chat, and his answer was that maybe someday they'll add it but it is not planned for Beyond or 2018. So that's the official answer as of today.
My guess is we'll never see them, despite how incredibly useful a feature it would be for nearly everyone who plays the game.
You can get this with ExTool and E.D.I.S.O.N. addons.
As far as I know the last comment on this worth noting was this from Sandro, some time ago:
No at some point in the Elite lore navigation technology regressed to the point where you have to look out a window above a planet to find where you need to go.