How do I navigate
- Thread starter d8veh
- Start date
Use the map grid coordinates...
As long as the numbers are getting closer, then so are you.
This post lists the big fields and their galaxy map coordinates. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=163816
As long as the numbers are getting closer, then so are you.
This post lists the big fields and their galaxy map coordinates. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=163816
Last edited:
Aim at the centre. Stay at about 700- 1000LY above or below the plane. When you get near you'll hit them.
Near is kind of relative to what you may be used to... Near to us weirdos who go out for months at a time is anything up to 10KLY....
Near is kind of relative to what you may be used to... Near to us weirdos who go out for months at a time is anything up to 10KLY....
Hmmm! I must be thick. I'm missing something. I know where I am by the coordinates on the galaxy map. I know where I want to go to by the coordinates. I can't click on anything in the direction I want to go, neither can I see what direction to go when sitting in my cockpit. Please be gentle on me, it's been a long day. How do I get any sort of navigation plan fixed in my ship?
Open the galaxy map and rotate it so you are looking at the centre. Scroll along horizontally until you reach a system that is just less than 1000 LY away, and click the Route button. That will give you your first route and the ship will automatically target the next system after each jump.
You'll have to re-plot a few more times before you get to the Neutron fields, and it is advisable to head up or down 100LY to avoid a layer of unscoopable stars on the way.
You'll have to re-plot a few more times before you get to the Neutron fields, and it is advisable to head up or down 100LY to avoid a layer of unscoopable stars on the way.
Yes, I tried that, but I can't get it to work. I can zoom out the map, but I can't scroll it. When zoomed out so that I can reach 1000ly, the stars are too small to click. I did eventually get one, but when I looked from another angle, i was going up more than forward.
When you're in the galaxy map, and have decided where you want to go, zoom out in the map until you can see the grid (and coordinates) clearly. At this point, star systems will be tiny, and you won't be able to see their names until you select one.
Now scroll or move the map in the direction of your target coordinates. The three coordinates indicate a place across the galaxy west to east plane : up and down in the galaxy plane : and across the galaxy north to south plane (sorry, I can't explain it better than that). As the coordinates get closer to your target coordinates you are moving in the right direction.
From time to time, select a star system to see how far it is from you, and select one when you get to just under 1000 Ly. Write it down as a waypoint.
Repeat until you get to the neutron fields.Edit: I'm on PC, and my controls for manipulating the map are:
Mouse wheel zooms the map.
Holding both mouse buttons and moving the mouse scrolls / moves the map.
Right mouse button moves me up and down in the map.
I imagine you can set these to whatever you want with the control options.
Last edited:
OK, thanks for all the help. I found the bit that I was missing. I don't use the keyboard as I have X52 HOTAS. There's no way of shifting the map set with my HOTAS because I've never needed to scroll before. Zoom is OK up to a hundred LYor so, which is as far as I've gone in a single trip before. I checked the controls menu and found that after rotating the map, I can scroll left or right with the keys A and D on the keyboard. Obvious when you know the answer. Impossible if you don't.