Hello CMDRs,
The devs fixed many things and I am grateful for that. I am mostly enjoying the game! One thing is driving me nuts though and it is the galaxy map. I want to share my thoughts, am curious about your opinions and am inviting you to upvote the issue which I posted on the issue tracker.
No automatic route calculation: Instead you have to go to a different menu where you have to recalculate the route manually. It’s really time consuming if you have to do it a lot. Horizons was doing a good job here.
Map shaking when you try to long click for route plotting: Many times it is not possible to long-click on a star because any slight movement will cause the map to move and the pointer to loose track of the star you were clicking on (plotting fails in that case).
Settings reset on galaxy map exit: It is super time consuming and annoying that many settings reset when you exit the map (e.g. market information / commodity settings, the population setting). Suggestion here: Make the map mode a proper button to toggle again. So that just like you can toggle to the realistic map you can toggle to the map mode which all your settings saved in one click.
Too many symbols: I get the idea: You want to focus on the map… big time! Therefore you reduced the text to symbols. But using two sides with only symbols is just too much. I do not think that many people will get used to that. Instead they will keep clicking everything until they find the right settings. My suggestion: Again more text and use the whole screen. One example: When I want to filter the map most times I do not need to see the map. I want to a set filters… on a full-screen at best … and then return to the map.
Useless menus which make the menu hard to get used to: There is a stored ship menu to the left and a stored ship menu to the right… the only useful one is the left one. Other menus where I think most players could abstain from: Friends menu on the right, system Map menu on the right (pressing the shortkey is the way everybody does it), system missions on the right (most people will do local missions and will like the blue indicator on the map but don’t need the extra menu which can also be found outside of the galaxy map), the back button on the left (we know how to exit the map or return to the last map)
Settlements not displayed after search: Awesome improvement that we can now not only search for systems but also for stations. Personally I would like to see a full-on-approach. So either implement the settlements in there as well or reduce it to systems again. Because if I have a place to land in mind it takes a bit more time to remember if it is a settlement or not. Therefore I started not to use the search at all because a lot of times I ended up without results because I forgot I was searching for a settlement.
Long startup times: You probably know what I mean. And not really a galaxy map issue I guess. But still…
Time Location: Consider displaying the time at the top right in accordance with the time in the cockpit. But with this last point I am getting greedy
And I want to say thanks for:
The devs fixed many things and I am grateful for that. I am mostly enjoying the game! One thing is driving me nuts though and it is the galaxy map. I want to share my thoughts, am curious about your opinions and am inviting you to upvote the issue which I posted on the issue tracker.
No automatic route calculation: Instead you have to go to a different menu where you have to recalculate the route manually. It’s really time consuming if you have to do it a lot. Horizons was doing a good job here.
Map shaking when you try to long click for route plotting: Many times it is not possible to long-click on a star because any slight movement will cause the map to move and the pointer to loose track of the star you were clicking on (plotting fails in that case).
Settings reset on galaxy map exit: It is super time consuming and annoying that many settings reset when you exit the map (e.g. market information / commodity settings, the population setting). Suggestion here: Make the map mode a proper button to toggle again. So that just like you can toggle to the realistic map you can toggle to the map mode which all your settings saved in one click.
Too many symbols: I get the idea: You want to focus on the map… big time! Therefore you reduced the text to symbols. But using two sides with only symbols is just too much. I do not think that many people will get used to that. Instead they will keep clicking everything until they find the right settings. My suggestion: Again more text and use the whole screen. One example: When I want to filter the map most times I do not need to see the map. I want to a set filters… on a full-screen at best … and then return to the map.
Useless menus which make the menu hard to get used to: There is a stored ship menu to the left and a stored ship menu to the right… the only useful one is the left one. Other menus where I think most players could abstain from: Friends menu on the right, system Map menu on the right (pressing the shortkey is the way everybody does it), system missions on the right (most people will do local missions and will like the blue indicator on the map but don’t need the extra menu which can also be found outside of the galaxy map), the back button on the left (we know how to exit the map or return to the last map)
Settlements not displayed after search: Awesome improvement that we can now not only search for systems but also for stations. Personally I would like to see a full-on-approach. So either implement the settlements in there as well or reduce it to systems again. Because if I have a place to land in mind it takes a bit more time to remember if it is a settlement or not. Therefore I started not to use the search at all because a lot of times I ended up without results because I forgot I was searching for a settlement.
Long startup times: You probably know what I mean. And not really a galaxy map issue I guess. But still…
Time Location: Consider displaying the time at the top right in accordance with the time in the cockpit. But with this last point I am getting greedy
And I want to say thanks for:
- The new possibility to favourite bookmarks.
- The number of jumps shown at the bottom of the screen after plotting a route. The whole menu down there is looking neat and is very useful.
- If it would work seamlessly the idea of plotting a route with a long click is brilliant!
