How do you track favorite systems?

Holm76

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So I've flown a few systems now and some I find really good for curtain purposes and want to remember them. Currently there is no way in game to add systems to a favorites list so what I do is buy a Sidewinder and just leave it at the station. Its really easy to spot systems with stored ships on the galaxy map. Obviously it would be better if I had some sort of favorite system list where I could add a short description as to why I want to save it or if I could name my ships I could give a describing name to my bookmark Sidewinder reminding me why I bookmarked that system.

How do you remember favorite systems out there?
 
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Iskariot

Iskariot
Holm76 said:
So I've flown a few systems now and some I find really good for curtain purposes and want to remember them. Currently there is no way in game to add systems to a favorites list so what I do is buy a Sidewinder and just leave it at the station. Its really easy to spot systems with stored ships on the galaxy map. Obviously it would be better if I had some sort of favorite system list where I could add a short description as to why I want to save it or if I could name my ships I could give a describing name to my bookmark Sidewinder reminding me why I bookmarked that system.

How do you remember favorite systems out there?
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I proposed in game tools ages ago... a commander's log.
I hope FD will get around to it eventually.

At a minimum I would like the game to automatically track:
- which systems I have visited
- which systems I have scanned and to what level I scanned them
- which stations I visited have black markets

Currently I use pen and paper.
 

Olmis Aremja

Olmis Aremja
Out exploring, I usually open the system map and then take a screenshot. I do also jot down with pen and paper though if I see something interesting when browsing the galaxy map etc that I have yet to visit
 

uncle bulgaria

uncle bulgaria
Whiterose said:
Yep, known as the PAP method. I record every system I explore, every trade, every RES etc. On my third A5 book.
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Why would you record every trade? I can see why you'd want to know which systems you've scanned as an explorer but details of every trade doesn't hold much value imho, a note of good trade routes or reliable suppliers of hard to find commodities is sensible though, same with modules/ships if you don't have access to the founder's world.

Recording everything doesn't the really useful information just get "lost in the noise"?
 
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Starf

Starf
Favorite list would be nice, until then, just buy a sidewinder. I find navigation on map quite easier when you have ships as reference points.
 

Bacon Sarnie

Bacon Sarnie
Paper and pen for me as well.
I had an A3 notepad lying around, when I was doing the grind I would note what I needed, where from, where to etc in that
When I headed off into the black natural progression when I found interesting systems way off in the distance, further away than I could plot a route to or close to a system I was already going, it gets jotted down too.
That way when Im closer or I've finished looking where I currently am I can set course to it.
Have half a page of systems with Black Holes that are some distance from me jotted down ready for when Im close enough to get to them.
 

Zplintz

Zplintz
I tried pen and paper but I would come back a week or so later to find my son had drawn batman and robin having farting competitions all over them :rolleyes:.

I resorted to a password protected spreadsheet in a folder only I can access.
 
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_Flin_

_Flin_
At AEDC we have created a database to track systems, states, wars and influence values.
Furthermore we use Google Spreadsheets for collaboration and reconnaissance.
We track our goals, contributions to our goals, we track systems and commodity prices via existing 3rd party tools, and we have a mapping project for a whole sector where we track the number of planets and the high-value exploration systems.

Did I ever say that I'd love to have an API?

And yes... System favorites would be greatly appreciated.
 

Arry

Arry
It is interesting that ED does not want us to have a record of our own movements etc.

ED know where we have all been and what we have been up to etc.

From trades to deeds, we are all remembered, for all time and yet, we cannot see the information ourselves.

Back in 2015, we had sat-navs in out cars etc, which could tell us where we had been and yet in 3100, we resort to pen and paper notes.

Well that's progress for you folks.

Arry.
 

Zplintz

Zplintz
I think it may have been a combination of development time/resources and that no matter what FD produced people would want something different. There are a few 3rd party apps that collect data from the systems/stations you travel to - you could suppliment these with your own notes.

It certainly has nothing to do with what we can do now or may be able to do in 3100+ - this game isn't seeking to predict future technologies (in the same way we do have ftl in ED even though we don't have it now and are extremely unlikely to have it by 3100).
 
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