[CODEX] - can we improve please?

[Kenneth McGrew]

so the codex is a great addition but its not that useful.

so if i want to go look at volcanism for instance, in the inner Orion spur, it tells me of a reported location which i can then look at on the map.. FANTASTIC

but it just points you to the first discovery of that item which im not really interested in, it would be far more useful to indicated the NEAREST of the thing your actually interested in, otherwise you need to travel 6kly between points, in this instance there was volcanism in the same system which i had just scanned and theres tons in the bubble,... but no it wanted to send me 6kly away to the edge of the inner Orion spur because that one was the first....

why?


why that one?


let us filter it

- Nearest
- First discovered
- Last reported

 

[Boff'in]

seconded.



First and newest are easy, there are just two items, and are easy to "store"

Nearest, that's a DB performance hit




you got to trawl through ALL the records sorting out just that "type", and then trawl through sort them on the distance in relation to you.

it's more SQL DB work

 

[Qohen Leth]

The Codex needs to be re-thought.

Either call it a Tourism Leaflet and don't hide what it is by making it part of the "exploration" bit of Chapter 4, or rethink it entirely.

A look at the exploration subforum and the popular exploration 3rd party apps should give a good idea of what enthusiast explorers are about.

Exploration =/= sightseeing.