Fully engineered FSD, ship still doing baby jumps. Why?

Bede

Bede
Hey CMDRs, I'm a born-again newb, back playing from scratch after a break of several years so pardon my dumb questions.

Thing is, I got myself a Cobra and and an invite from Felicity Farseer, so decided to go all out to get a maxxed-out FSD for fun and a sense of achievement. Did the 70 or so jumps to Maia to buy her the Meta-Alloys, and then did 80 or so over to Deciat to present myself to the great lady. Because I had thoughtfully acquired ALL the materials necessary and was able to cash-in several million in exploration data at her base, in no time at all I had a G5 modified FSD with Mass Manager Experimental effect, and (apparently) a jump range of about 30 light years on the Cobra. Nice.

But then I noticed on the way home, all the jumps on my route were still no more than 10 Lyrs. When I got the invite from Elvira Martuuk, I plotted the route for another tedious grind to go get her those Soontill relics. 70 or so jumps to Ngurii to buy them at Cheranovsky City. Started off on the trek, the Cobra still baby hopping 8 to 10 Lyrs at a time. Nice perhaps to be able to do LOTS and LOTS of exploring on the way, but I was actually hoping for less hopping.

So I must be doing something wrong... right? I had a quick look at the Galaxy Map, but couldn't figure out if that was where my problem was. To save me the bother of having to plod through the Pilot Handbook, can someone give me a quick fix? Would be grateful.
 

Der Guator

Der Guator
ebbrell said:
Haha, I had this back in 2016. I played for 2 months not know that option was there.
I opened my first engineer in this mode

I remember doing 70 jumps each way to get a meta alloy

Haha, funny
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Is this maybe set by default? Because I can also remember my first trip to Maia being hella long and I was quite surprised when I went there years later in just a few jumps :D
 

karamu

karamu
Der Guator said:
Is this maybe set by default? Because I can also remember my first trip to Maia being hella long and I was quite surprised when I went there years later in just a few jumps :D
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I think it is the default setting as I recently noticed it in my second account which has only got a few hours in it and I hadn't travelled much.
 

Bede

Bede
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction guys. Boy do I feel sheepish. :LOL:
The real trick it seems is to uncheck Economic Route mode and check Fastest Routes. With my newly engineered FSD, that changed the journey from Ngurii to Khun from 77 to 15 jumps! :LOL:

Anyways for my next gormless question. Just why is that so many systems which have obviously previously been visited, discovered and mapped show up as "Unexplored"? I had reason to notice this a lot on my journey to Maia and back.

I mean you drop in, do a quick system scan, find that most of the system is "unexplored", then use the trusty FSS. Then time after time you see the bodies are already "first discovered by..." and "first mapped by...". So shouldn't that mean that they are NOT "unexplored"? I thought that was what the Codex was all about, stuff that gets discovered and mapped added to it for use by other commanders. Hell, one of the systems I fully explored in this way even had a station in it, invisible until I scanned it with the FSS. Was it a station manned by zombies? Or were all those poor joes there just waiting for me to come along and "find" them again? :sneaky::LOL:

Ah wait, my budgie just chattered in my ear. "It's only a computer game, y'know. Don't sweat the small stuff." OK birdie. Now... about Raxxla. :unsure:
 

Northpin

Northpin
Bede said:
Anyways for my next gormless question. Just why is that so many systems which have obviously previously been visited, discovered and mapped show up as "Unexplored"? I had reason to notice this a lot on my journey to Maia and back.
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They are unexplored by you.
The only exception is provided by the bigger systems in the bubble that will appear as fully explored even if you didnt visited before

However, if you venture far away from the bubble to get into truly unexplored systems (not visited at all) you will be able to notice that honking the system will reveal xx bodies but both the system map and the nav panel will not reveal any bodies or, if any, fewer than the number of bodies reported by the Discovery Scanner Honk.
Then you can FSS them all and you can put your own name on the Discovery Tag - ofc assuming that you live to report the finding to an Universal Cartographic bureau.
 

Bantha

Bantha
Bede said:
The real trick it seems is to uncheck Economic Route mode and check Fastest Routes. With my newly engineered FSD, that changed the journey from Ngurii to Khun from 77 to 15 jumps! :LOL:
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Ha ha welcome back to the game Commander!
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
Pilot federation Does not auto update Nav computer For Every player and every system... that will take way to much bandwidth and time..
Pilots federation will update it if your ship sends a specific Single system or planet request... If you never leave the bubble this saves the Pilot fed computers a butt load of resources...
 

d8veh

d8veh
Bede said:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction guys. Boy do I feel sheepish. :LOL:
The real trick it seems is to uncheck Economic Route mode and check Fastest Routes. With my newly engineered FSD, that changed the journey from Ngurii to Khun from 77 to 15 jumps! :LOL:

Anyways for my next gormless question. Just why is that so many systems which have obviously previously been visited, discovered and mapped show up as "Unexplored"? I had reason to notice this a lot on my journey to Maia and back.

I mean you drop in, do a quick system scan, find that most of the system is "unexplored", then use the trusty FSS. Then time after time you see the bodies are already "first discovered by..." and "first mapped by...". So shouldn't that mean that they are NOT "unexplored"? I thought that was what the Codex was all about, stuff that gets discovered and mapped added to it for use by other commanders. Hell, one of the systems I fully explored in this way even had a station in it, invisible until I scanned it with the FSS. Was it a station manned by zombies? Or were all those poor joes there just waiting for me to come along and "find" them again? :sneaky::LOL:

Ah wait, my budgie just chattered in my ear. "It's only a computer game, y'know. Don't sweat the small stuff." OK birdie. Now... about Raxxla. :unsure:
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How would you know about it? No need to feel stupid.
 
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