Way out on the fringe, or as in my current situation way up above, the stars are very thin. I dragged my carrier out with me to maximise my jump range, but therein lies the problem - if you zoom the map out to the full 500ly, the stars are too small to render. If you zoom the map in to the point where you can see the stars, you can't see more than a few dozen ly. So what's the trick here? How do you find just how far you can go, and when do you concede that you just can't go any further?
Finding a route through sparse regions
- Thread starter BradHann
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Been an issue since forever. If the stars are procedurally generated you can try scrolling through the boxel using star names to see of there are any in the direction you want to travel, but otherwise it's just panning around to see if you can spot something. Of course if the area has been visited you can use the Spansh nearest star function, select a spot 500ly away and find the nearest already known, but that doesn't help for previously unvisited stars .