Explorer's Wish List

Pete

Pete
So, I'm out exploring again, and I've got just a few things that would make the game so much more enjoyable...none are major things requiring a complete overhaul of the game...

  • An external camera to take hi-res screenshots (Edit: YAY! coming in 1.2!!)
  • Being able to reselect my currently planned route if I drop out of SC
  • Remembering my currently planned route between game sessions
  • An extra CMDR slot...

It's not a lot...

I want the external camera to allow me to take beautiful screenshots - it can be a third-party view where I get shots of my ship (oh yes please, please please!), but even just a camera mounted on the ship to be able to take shots without canopy clutter would be fantastic. Until now I have coped by just taking shots through the top of my Asp's canopy, then cropping them down, but I'm seeing significant canopy smear even on the top now, and it is so frustrating to have a beautiful shot with canopy smears evident on it. Please FDev, let me share the full beauty of this game with others!

I want to be able to reselect my route after leaving SC...if I go to the galaxy map after this, I can see my route still dialled in, unfortunately once I leave SC there is no way to select the next waypoint from the list of destinations, and if I manually select it from the galaxy map, it overwrites the current route. Such an annoying bug, and it has actually deterred me from dropping out of SC to take the aforementioned screenshots, because I knew I'd need to remap my route if I did.

And great, we can plot 1000 Ly routes! Now if I need to log out (or if the game crashes!) half way through that journey, that means next time when I log in, I need to find the destination and replan the route...why? What possible reason for this is there? Why can't my route be saved data?

Oh - and when I am out exploring, I am thousands of Ly away - this prevents me from experiencing any other aspect of the game for possibly weeks at a time. I cannot enjoy community events, I cannot take a berak from exploring and do some missions, trading, bounty hunting, etc, I am locked in to exploring and nothing else. If I had a second slot for another CMDR I could explore with my main character, and still participate with the other in events and other activities.

That's it...for me anyway. If you're an explorer, what would you like right now?

-- Pete.
 
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_Dastardly_

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Change the Navigation so that instead of <Unknown> it says <Unknown Gas Giant> or <Unknown Asteroid Belt> the data is there, you can see it in the model by locking each one individually, would make life easier.
Repair units to fix Hull/Cockpit/FSD
Some kind of hint from FD that there's *something* out there other than more planets, suns etc. Anything..
Some way of keeping (some/50%/all) exploration data through death.
 

Devil's Refugee

Devil's Refugee
Points 2 and 3 an absolute must for exploration and frankly any basic Galactic "SatNav", surprised this was never there in the first place.

I'd also like to store a couple of routes to a memory slot, for regular runs (maybe a min LY criteria should apply ?)

Oh, and if you're an explorer, surely a list of the systems you've visited would be nice, especially when you find that Dream system and want to go back for more photos. Or the ability to "bookmark" a system because of what you found there.
 
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Pete

Pete
_Dastardly_ said:
Some way of keeping (some/50%/all) exploration data through death.
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Oh - you just reminded me - does anyone know if the bug is still there where you lose visibility of systems you have explored if you die, even if you die after you have sold the data?

-- Pete.
 

Old Joe

Old Joe
Pete said:
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I want to be able to reselect my route after leaving SC...if I go to the galaxy map after this, I can see my route still dialled in, unfortunately once I leave SC there is no way to select the next waypoint from the list of destinations, and if I manually select it from the galaxy map, it overwrites the current route. Such an annoying bug, and it has actually deterred me from dropping out of SC to take the aforementioned screenshots, because I knew I'd need to remap my route if I did.

And great, we can plot 1000 Ly routes! Now if I need to log out (or if the game crashes!) half way through that journey, that means next time when I log in, I need to find the destination and replan the route...why? What possible reason for this is there? Why can't my route be saved data?

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This exactly is my one and only number one on the wish list, too.

And perhaps some kind of camera drone...
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Route planner optionally respecting the filtering on the galaxy map
Agree on the way to save data: I suggest some sort of 'escape capsule' for data. Make it expensive so we have to think about using it - say 1M Cr a pop.
Yes to saving routes between sessions and those other times it just loses it.
Make the radar have another colour to shown scanned vs not scanned vs target.
Tag objects (like those asteroid belts) as ignored and thus no longer appear on the navigation panel. Or perhaps make asteroids have some value so we don;t just ignore them?
Make heat sink launcher work in supercruise
configurable alerts for specific objects within 'range'. such as black holes, neutron stars
 
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Rikk

R
Agreed about the supercruise drop ou, most annoying. If there are very few systems in range it is marked in the navigation panel. But that list is limited. Maybe even just have have next destination at the top of nav list?
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Jump to another star in the system
Sounds on when in panels like galaxy map
Small window showing front view when in galaxy map, etc.
Remember exact state (inc rotate/zoom, etc) when returning to galaxy map
Target an object from the system view
 
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Ericlas

Ericlas
Pete said:
Oh - and when I am out exploring, I am thousands of Ly away - this prevents me from experiencing any other aspect of the game for possibly weeks at a time. I cannot enjoy community events, I cannot take a berak from exploring and do some missions, trading, bounty hunting, etc, I am locked in to exploring and nothing else. If I had a second slot for another CMDR I could explore with my main character, and still participate with the other in events and other activities.
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'm currently on my way to the center of our galaxy.
I am 13.000 ly away which took me some days already (not racing there).
That means i still have 39.000 ly to go, until i am back home.
That means i'll miss any event (Jaques station i.e.) that turns up in the next weeks.
Sure you can always self-destruct and be right in your last visited station.
But you lose every exploration effort so far. (which is far beyond my understanding anyway).

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oh and suggestion:

Hotkey for the system map would be awesome!
 

drpaul

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Pete said:
So, I'm out exploring again, and I've got just a few things that would make the game so much more enjoyable...none are major things requiring a complete overhaul of the game...

  • An external camera to take hi-res screenshots
  • Being able to reselect my currently planned route if I drop out of SC
  • Remembering my currently planned route between game sessions
  • An extra CMDR slot...

It's not a lot...

I want the external camera to allow me to take beautiful screenshots - it can be a third-party view where I get shots of my ship (oh yes please, please please!), but even just a camera mounted on the ship to be able to take shots without canopy clutter would be fantastic. Until now I have coped by just taking shots through the top of my Asp's canopy, then cropping them down, but I'm seeing significant canopy smear even on the top now, and it is so frustrating to have a beautiful shot with canopy smears evident on it. Please FDev, let me share the full beauty of this game with others!

I want to be able to reselect my route after leaving SC...if I go to the galaxy map after this, I can see my route still dialled in, unfortunately once I leave SC there is no way to select the next waypoint from the list of destinations, and if I manually select it from the galaxy map, it overwrites the current route. Such an annoying bug, and it has actually deterred me from dropping out of SC to take the aforementioned screenshots, because I knew I'd need to remap my route if I did.

And great, we can plot 1000 Ly routes! Now if I need to log out (or if the game crashes!) half way through that journey, that means next time when I log in, I need to find the destination and replan the route...why? What possible reason for this is there? Why can't my route be saved data?

Oh - and when I am out exploring, I am thousands of Ly away - this prevents me from experiencing any other aspect of the game for possibly weeks at a time. I cannot enjoy community events, I cannot take a berak from exploring and do some missions, trading, bounty hunting, etc, I am locked in to exploring and nothing else. If I had a second slot for another CMDR I could explore with my main character, and still participate with the other in events and other activities.

That's it...for me anyway. If you're an explorer, what would you like right now?

-- Pete.
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What I would like is something that is doable with the current build and mechanics....

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116823&highlight=community+goal

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Oh, and it would be so nice if we could click on an item in the system view and have that become targeted.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Just a simple request after getting home from a 6000LY trip. The ability to target any system in the map whilst having a route plotted.

for example, whilst 1000LY to VY Canis Majoris, I would target it on the gal map, it would show as targeted on my main viewscreen, as soon as I plot a route my next jump would be the main target. Why not let us have both.
 

Krunchie

Krunchie
The thing I would love the most by far would be stations in 4 far corners of the galaxy ("N,W,S and E" so to say) and one at Sagittarius A, where we can sell data and repair/refit our ship.

(The "North" corner would be where Erimus went. The "South" one is at the opposing end and so on.)
 

777Driver

777Driver
Krunchie said:
The thing I would love the most by far would be stations in 4 far corners of the galaxy ("N,W,S and E" so to say) and one at Sagittarius A, where we can sell data and repair/refit our ship.

(The "North" corner would be where Erimus went. The "South" one is at the opposing end and so on.)
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Give it time, small repair facility's will appear as the game evolves.
 

specialsymbol

specialsymbol
External Camera!!

Another thing: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add an hotkey to enter the system map. And if you want to do us a very special favor, let me select destinations in the system map.


You can reselect your plotted route from the nav panel on the left side. Scroll down until you see a system with three linked dots next to it. Lock it and engage hyperjump.
 
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Pete

Pete
Skip Intro said:
Isn't it? I thought you used the qwe/asd keys to move about.
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Yes - this works for me. I have noticed in the last patches that my X52 Pro directional switch no longer reliably scrolls right any more...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - and this is just in the system map. Is anyone else seeing anything like this? The keyboard keys still work.

-- Pete.
 
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