Is course plotting tied to an online server?

[Old Duck]

I ask the question in the title because my galaxy map course plots last night and today are taking forever to calculate. I'm not talking about complex plots - right now I'm waiting on just a 288 LY plot. I even turned off preferred star types. The only thing I can think of is that plotting a course requires one of ED's servers to complete, and since it's Labor Day weekend here in the States, the servers are likely bogged down.

I'm currently playing in PG (Mobius) out at Seagull nebula (attempting to visit Thor's Helmet) on a PS4. Normally this plot would calculate in a second or two.

Hopefully this is fixed in 2.4...

 

[Qohen Leth]

Make sure you don't have a permit locked sector in between. If so, the plotter will fail no matter what, it cannot do detours...

 

[Alex Brentnall]

It's highly CPU driven or at least it was last I checked which is why plotting near the galactic core can take forever when the sheer number of stars means the number of possibilities skyrockets.

 

[Old Duck]

It's highly CPU driven or at least it was last I checked which is why plotting near the galactic core can take forever when the sheer number of stars means the number of possibilities skyrockets.

This morning I went to plot a course to the next star and it hung up on 0%. I selected the star directly and jumped there no problem. Later in the morning the plotter was working just like normal again.

Maybe it's just some weird bug that pops up from time to time...