Galaxy map navigation

[fyonn]

Am I being a little stupid, but what's the best way to navigate longer distances in the galaxy map? Here's what I've been doing and it's a bit frustrating.

I pick out a location 10's of thousands of LY away that I want to visit. I know that the planner doesn't go that far, so I select the end location, go back to the current location and swing the camera round so I can see the end, and then step from system to system to get further towards my goal. then I accidentally click the mouse too close to the end goal and the camera then zooms to my end goal and I sign, make my way back to my current location and start again. I usually repeat this a few times until I get about 500ly out and then I stop and go there...

is there a simpler, easier way to do this?

David

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Yeah, i did similar. Not sure there is a better way. However, i've stopped rushing around these days, and now just individually pick potentially good systems in the general direction i'm heading. It works well. I get where i'm going a lot slower. but i'm finding lots of nice worlds along the way.

 

[Lokesh]

You can do this a little quicker. Pick your end point, zoom out, rotate the map until your current location lines up with your destination (your eye --> current location --> destination). Then use the scroll wheel to zoom in on your destination. You should be able to find something very close to in line just below 1000 ly.

 

[Traveler]

I'm afraid that's the painful way of doing things for now. Some nice suggestions about improving route planning have been made in this thread tho.

 

[fyonn]

You can do this a little quicker. Pick your end point, zoom out, rotate the map until your current location lines up with your destination (your eye --> current location --> destination). Then use the scroll wheel to zoom in on your destination. You should be able to find something very close to in line just below 1000 ly.

actually, this way kinda helps. it's still not a great way of navigating longer distances, but galaxy map navigation could stand some decent improvement still.

Cheers
Dave

 

[Alex Brentnall]

If you look closely the map has a grid underlay with co-ordinates. Panning around to the next grid you can work out which number is up/down, left/right and forward/backwards. (I think its standard x,y,z co-ordinates).

I tend to match the x and y co-ordinates and then travel in a straight line plotting 1,000LY routes at a time.