Horizons How about a MAP for planet stations

scorpionarachnid

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I recently got lost on a plant station. Could not fined my way back as there were blocked pathways and some sites are huge! You must have a plan of the site for the buildings, so it would be quite easy to and nice to have a MAP come up, saying you are here and can scroll around.

Just like trade data, you could buy a map for a few credits either before you go or in your SVR if you have trouble finding your way. Just a thought.
 

Commander Regel

C
+1

A map would be useful for planning attacks, identifying interesting items (data sources) within the base etc.

Unless I'm missing something, finding mission objectives on a planet's base is more luck than judgement at the moment.
 

Khelder

Khelder
Brusilov said:
I'd like to be able to map entire planets and their bases while driving around with my SRV.
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I'd love to have a surface map view. Would be great to plot out driving courses and keeping track of interesting sites.

I'm thinking of building a custom waypoint/marker display into my overlay app. :)
 

Ursula_17

Ursula_17
I think a map of stations would be great and possible, because there would be (at this time) a limited number of planet station types and layouts.

However, I don't think a map of planet surfaces for interesting area's or POI's would be possible, because the landscape is randomly generated isn't it? This would make a map not possible because it would be different each time.
 

Khelder

Khelder
Ursula_17 said:
However, I don't think a map of planet surfaces for interesting area's or POI's would be possible, because the landscape is randomly generated isn't it? This would make a map not possible because it would be different each time.
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The landscape and rock placement are procedurally generated. There would be an element of randomness in that, but the seed would stay the same for each planet. I've been making multiple visits in multiple sessions to one particular rock on the surface. It's there every time. So a top-down map of the surface would be possible.

The POIs are randomly generated and are only persistent for that instance. If you go up to orbital cruise and then back down, you will find that the POIs you had previously had gone. You wouldn't want those mapped as such anyway because they are supposed to be "discovered".
 

Lupin

Lupin
Allow debug camera more distance from SRV. 4km should do.

Often use for birds eye view of base and POI.
 
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