Do you play with orbit lines on or off?

[Oss133]

I can only echo what many have said already. Because the orbit lines are rendered so flawlessly (unlike HUD elements, which bounce around a bit) and because they are masked behind the cockpit ironwork, to me they always served to underscore the artificiality of the rendered world outside the spacecraft. As soon as the option to remove them became available that's what I did, at which point the galaxy became less like a planetarium and more like a series of actual star systems.

[Pedantry]The orbit lines are projected onto the "glass" canopy. That is why they do not appear on the ironwork. This becomes evident when you get a canopy breach.[/Pedantry]

 

[Mark Allen]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

 

[Cody]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list...

<nods> Cool!

 

[Tarman]

It's funny, they were annoying when they were unremovable. Now that they're optional, I still leave them on. >_________> Guess it's just nice to have the choice if I want it.

 

[jacozilla]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

Yes! ....the voodoo doll worked....oh yes, it did.

 

[Marra Morgan]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

Good man

 

[deMangler]

I play with orbit lines off unless they have defaulted to on again and I can't be bothered to change it. Also linear scanner.

 

[Red Kite]

On when exploring.

Off the rest of the time.

 

[BigBossLucas]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

Please, write it down! I don't trust your memory is it DDR5?

 

[Starlanced]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

This game needs a ton more bindable keys and buttons, why is there a way to bindicate a chaff but not a heat sink, makes no sense

 

[Cradle2Grave]

Just to note - a keyboard toggle is now also on the TODO list (it has been on mental wishlists for a while, now it's a little more formal). Can't promise when as there's a lot more important to deal with, but it's there.

Thanks man!!

 

[Bane Six Echo]

Off. They clutter the view!

A third option might be nice, though: target only. I don't need to see every orbit line in the system, but seeing the orbit line for the currently selected target might be nice.

 

[TargetLost]

off
I like my galaxy to be natural
If it were a very thin almost invisible line it could be ok but that fat it looks so ugly wrong and and disturbing. (I play with oculus rift.)

 

[Zephyriel]

Always on. I tried them off for like one minute, and thought everything suddenly looked confusing. You see planets and stars, but have no idea where the center or the axes are. It's like driving in a city you don't know with no road signs and street names.

 

[PhanttoM]

Mostly on, especially when traveling — Why get caught and a slowed down in supercruise by the gravity well of a planet/moon that is slightly off screen.

Frankly I find it more immersive with the thing on, as it's simply a HUD tool. Like a velocity vector indicator in an aircraft.

 

[Togg]

Off for me...the view is so much nicer especially in crowded systems.

I consider flight (as well as fuel scooping) to be more Art than science... in other words... "Never tell me the Odds(details)"

 

[Hellhawk666]

Turned them off when the option to do so first came in (was it in beta?) and forgot to turn them back on again.
Guess I prefer it with them off. No reason - I suppose I just like a less cluttered view.

 

[DarkseeD]

Always off for me.

 

[jacozilla]

Speaking of orbital lines - I know what the orbital lines tell me re: celestial body paths, the double orbit pairs lines, the light blue orbits around yellow planet orbit lines indicating it has one or more moons...but one thing I can't figure out unless it's just a special effect added as motion sense -

When I am in SC and traveling any direction, I see these vertical dash lines on either side of my cockpit view - left and right - that moves toward me, with greater frequency period between the small vertical lines as my speed increases.

Are these lines simply there to give motion sense? Or do they indicate something else?

 

[Tarman]

Speaking of orbital lines - I know what the orbital lines tell me re: celestial body paths, the double orbit pairs lines, the light blue orbits around yellow planet orbit lines indicating it has one or more moons...but one thing I can't figure out unless it's just a special effect added as motion sense -

When I am in SC and traveling any direction, I see these vertical dash lines on either side of my cockpit view - left and right - that moves toward me, with greater frequency period between the small vertical lines as my speed increases.

Are these lines simply there to give motion sense? Or do they indicate something else?

AFAIK it's a really crude speedtape.