Improved Route Management: Manual Paths, Waypoints, and Loops

[Джим Рейнор]

Hello,

It would be incredibly useful to have an option for manual route planning, allowing players to plot their own custom paths by selecting specific systems - either freely or by setting multiple waypoints the route must pass through.

Additionally, it would be great to have the ability to save these routes to a file (for example, in the same folder as the journal logs) and load them back into the game later when needed.

One more highly desired feature would be the ability to create looped or cyclical routes, allowing players to continuously follow a preset path without having to reopen the map - this would be especially helpful for trade runs, and colonization efforts.

Thank you for your attention.

 

[aRJay]

Hello,

It would be incredibly useful to have an option for manual route planning, allowing players to plot their own custom paths by selecting specific systems - either freely or by setting multiple waypoints the route must pass through.

Yes it would.
Unsurprisingly it has been asked for a lot over the years.

Additionally, it would be great to have the ability to save these routes to a file (for example, in the same folder as the journal logs) and load them back into the game later when needed.

One more highly desired feature would be the ability to create looped or cyclical routes, allowing players to continuously follow a preset path without having to reopen the map - this would be especially helpful for trade runs, and colonization efforts.

Thank you for your attention.

The problem with these is it strikes me that they would make it easier to automate the game which FDev are against.

 

[Джим Рейнор]

The problem with these is it strikes me that they would make it easier to automate the game which FDev are against.

Well, on the one hand, that’s true, but on the other hand, if the program is capable of orienting the ship in space and controlling it, then plotting a route shouldn’t be too difficult even without requested features. A hotkey for the map, pasting the system name, clicking the first in the list, clicking “plot route,” closing the map - I don’t think that would be a problem.

But even if it is, I’m simply most interested in the first function I requested, others would just be a nice bonus.