Call them waypoints, selections, whatever you like. It would be very helpful if we could set up a non-linear route to multiple different places in a specific order.
A somewhat extreme example is in this picture I took while exploring (no worries people, I've handed in the data since):
What's going on there, is that bookmark is for one of the Earthlikes I've discovered in the past. I travelled back out there, while completing Elite Exploration, and made a list (in notepad, sigh) of every system visible in the Navigation panel from the system that planet is in. I then visited every one of those systems and marked at least one celestial body (though unfortunately some were 100% marked by the over-zealous "Leave nothing for anyone else" explorer type).
It was quite tedious, having to copy, paste, set route, jump, do my thing there, and start over again. The dotted lines only show maybe a quarter of all the jumping I did to establish that bubble around my Earthlike.
If I could have instead customized my routing, setting each of those destinations in turn - perhaps even from the Navigation panel with an "Add Another Destination" button? - I would have been able to save a lot of time with this project.
And I've got quite a number of other Earthlikes I'd like to do this with in the future.
Bear in mind this is just one example of the many ways it'd be useful to have custom routing available, perhaps limited by the maximum laden jump range of our ships to prevent any issues.
And I can't think of any reasons why this wouldn't work well - if I'm missing something, please enlighten me?
A somewhat extreme example is in this picture I took while exploring (no worries people, I've handed in the data since):
What's going on there, is that bookmark is for one of the Earthlikes I've discovered in the past. I travelled back out there, while completing Elite Exploration, and made a list (in notepad, sigh) of every system visible in the Navigation panel from the system that planet is in. I then visited every one of those systems and marked at least one celestial body (though unfortunately some were 100% marked by the over-zealous "Leave nothing for anyone else" explorer type).
It was quite tedious, having to copy, paste, set route, jump, do my thing there, and start over again. The dotted lines only show maybe a quarter of all the jumping I did to establish that bubble around my Earthlike.
If I could have instead customized my routing, setting each of those destinations in turn - perhaps even from the Navigation panel with an "Add Another Destination" button? - I would have been able to save a lot of time with this project.
And I've got quite a number of other Earthlikes I'd like to do this with in the future.
Bear in mind this is just one example of the many ways it'd be useful to have custom routing available, perhaps limited by the maximum laden jump range of our ships to prevent any issues.
And I can't think of any reasons why this wouldn't work well - if I'm missing something, please enlighten me?