Economy vs Fastest travel

[War Eagle]

I have watched many youtube vids on how to play the game and I was under the impression that if you click the Economy route and the Icon stays red there is no way for your ship to get there?

I was taking my new Dolphin "Eagle Lines" on it maiden flight with some well paying passengers, on the second leg of the trip the galaxy map said I had no way of getting there? I opened the map and found a way there myself(Didn't take many more jumps at all). My question is: is this part of the game that sometimes it lies to you or is this a glitch?

*No idea why- it wouldn't let me upload the really nice free camera image of her before she launched?

 

[IndigoWyrd]

The route plotter just sucks some times. I rarely fly economy, maybe once or twice a year if that, since I carry a fuel scoop.

Out on the rim the suck of the route plotter mixed with low stellar density is a real challenge.

 

[War Eagle]

I do have a Fuel Scoop, I took the vids at face value but it didn't make sense to me that it couldn't find a route. Glad I didn't just give up
Another thing it did is I took 2 sets of passengers, did the first passengers stops(2) first- all good. Then I started the second passenger's destination but when I arrived in the first system he didn't say anything? I found the "Visitors Beacon" myself- he still didn't say anything(Like they are suppose to) so I just took them back to the departure point and abandoned the mission? Not sure about that either.

 

[Factabulous]

The route plotter just sucks some times. I rarely fly economy, maybe once or twice a year if that, since I carry a fuel scoop.

Out on the rim the suck of the route plotter mixed with low stellar density is a real challenge.

OP is doing pax missions, not out on the edge of the galaxy. Some will be along in a while to shout L2P .. youtube is bizarrely not a better place to learn how stuff works than in the actual game & paying attention to what happens is always worth a punt

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Economy routing is better at plotting around barriers than Fastest routing (if they're not too big), because of how it's optimised, but it still has limitations.

The longer you leave the map open in economy mode to build the "spiderweb" the more chance you might have of either the plot working, or the spiderweb at least making the intermediate point to route to clearer.

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

The route plotter seems seriously berserk at the moment. Admittedly I'm out on the Rim working up towards Beagle Point but where Spansh confirms the existence of neutron stars, the RP resolutely refuses to find and use them. Just now, I had a 40.2 LY jump, then a 9.79 LY jump came up - goodie thinks I, at last it's found a neutron. No such luck, just another red dwarf with a 40.x jump to the next system.

This is making the journey longer and more tedious than it needs to be and, before anyone suggests manually inputting the route from Spansh, the time taken to do this star by star negates the saving from using neutrons. The plotter should be doing this automatically, with suitable diversions for fuel of course.

 

[War Eagle]

OP is doing pax missions, not out on the edge of the galaxy. Some will be along in a while to shout L2P .. youtube is bizarrely not a better place to learn how stuff works than in the actual game & paying attention to what happens is always worth a punt

I have no idea what any of that means but I agree you have to punt once in awhile.

 

[War Eagle]

Economy routing is better at plotting around barriers than Fastest routing (if they're not too big), because of how it's optimised, but it still has limitations.

The longer you leave the map open in economy mode to build the "spiderweb" the more chance you might have of either the plot working, or the spiderweb at least making the intermediate point to route to clearer.

Agree I was on fastest and switched when it said no(dotted line) still said no so I picked a star went there then it plotted again.

 

[Cmdr Nemo]

I have watched many youtube vids on how to play the game and I was under the impression that if you click the Economy route and the Icon stays red there is no way for your ship to get there?

I was taking my new Dolphin "Eagle Lines" on it maiden flight with some well paying passengers, on the second leg of the trip the galaxy map said I had no way of getting there? I opened the map and found a way there myself(Didn't take many more jumps at all). My question is: is this part of the game that sometimes it lies to you or is this a glitch?

*No idea why- it wouldn't let me upload the really nice free camera image of her before she launched?

I see your relatively new to the forum and perhaps ED, and as such may not know; If ones jump range is so much as .01 short of the distance needed between any two systems, it won't plot using either economy or fastest. Hence one tries fastest first and if it doesn't plot, then economy will most generally, but not always plot a route.

 

[Jukelo]

The route plotter seems seriously berserk at the moment. Admittedly I'm out on the Rim working up towards Beagle Point but where Spansh confirms the existence of neutron stars, the RP resolutely refuses to find and use them. Just now, I had a 40.2 LY jump, then a 9.79 LY jump came up - goodie thinks I, at last it's found a neutron. No such luck, just another red dwarf with a 40.x jump to the next system.

This is making the journey longer and more tedious than it needs to be and, before anyone suggests manually inputting the route from Spansh, the time taken to do this star by star negates the saving from using neutrons. The plotter should be doing this automatically, with suitable diversions for fuel of course.

Spansh has the advantage that every bit of data it has, somebody used the IG route plotter to get to. In effect it offloads most of the work to the game clients of all the players who have contributed to EDSM to create a leaner database that is easier to path through due to both the smaller size and the fact most of it is made of stars reported by players in AspX or Anacondas on their way to their destination. There is a statistical bias towards making every star in that smaller database useful for the purpose of travelling, since it's a star that was picked by the IG route plotter to get somwhere to begin with.

 

[dognosh]

I used to remember no route plotter, then a very short plotter when introduced(100 LYs ? ) , now it can practically take us to SAG A* in one shot(20kLYs limit? )
RP has it's flaws, but I am grateful it is as good as it is