Newcomer / Intro Has Maximum Route Plotting Distance Changed?

[Harrier_1961]

Hi all,

Last night I reached the furthest end of a 'triangular' trip out to discover new systems. I've been plotting the route in sub 1000ly sections in order to reach my chosen end point. I now am going to head back to Ray Gateway to cash in my hard work. Just out of curiosity I tried to plot a direct route back in one go, the route is over 4500ly and to my surprise it did it. Gave me 115 jumps to do it which is expected of course but I couldn't understand why it had calculated the route for me. I thought that 1000ly was the maximum for route plotting?

Obviously I'm misunderstanding something here but could have saved myself some time using the Galmap on the way out if I could have just done the whole route in one go.

Thanks very much.

 

[Zieman]

Yes, it was changed some time (a year? two years?) ago.
With "fastest routes" the max distance is now 20000 LY, with "economical routes" the max distance is 1000 LY.

 

[Harrier_1961]

Thanks Zieman.
I only started on ED a few months ago so have obviously been reading old info regarding the max distance. At least I can save some time now on the long trips out. I tend to do the fastest route to reach my chosen area and then most economical route while plodding around to check out the systems.

Thanks for your help

 

[aRJay]

Thanks Zieman.
I only started on ED a few months ago so have obviously been reading old info regarding the max distance. At least I can save some time now on the long trips out. I tend to do the fastest route to reach my chosen area and then most economical route while plodding around to check out the systems.

Thanks for your help

Yes one of the biggest pitfalls is outdated information, the game has changed considerably other the years so you should always check the date on any guides or videos, a look in the News forum for posts tagged patch notes will give you an idea of when things were changed in the game.