Is there a tool that will measure the distance between two systems?

Allitnil

Allitnil
Wylie28 said:
The game shows you how far away you are from every system. Find the system you want, pick another nearby star and subtract. The difference is the distance between those stars. I have to be missing something here what is it? Do you need the decimals?
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You're missing that the stars aren't all in a straight line. Two stars might be 200 LY apart but only 1 LY different distances from where you are now.

FWIW, the orange hats are the best way of telling whether you can reach a particular system or not. But they aren't much use once you get to neutron star boosting levels of jump range (200+ LY) as you struggle to be able to both select one system and see the other! Works well for the outer rims though where you're only interested in jumponium boosts so currently about 125 LY max.

If you are trying to use neutron boosts to get as far above or below the galactic plane as possible then estimating the co-ordinates and using Pythagoras is the only realistic option. You can estimate the co-ords to +/- 0.1 LY accuracy so can get pretty accurate distances.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Nutter said:
Clearly not in-game, but does anyone know of a fan made tool that will let you measure the distance between two systems?

The reason being I like to try to reach the hard to reach places, this involves a trip of anything from 2,000ly to 65,000ly however when I get there I find (even with my max jump Conda) that I can't get there.

My absolute max range with 100% boost is 118ly thats with SRV's on board however my last trip I found to be 40ly short with no neutrons around.

Cheers

Nutter
o7
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You could use a standard 3D distance calculator: http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/geometry-solids/distance-two-points.php
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Nutter said:
Clearly not in-game, but does anyone know of a fan made tool that will let you measure the distance between two systems?

The reason being I like to try to reach the hard to reach places, this involves a trip of anything from 2,000ly to 65,000ly however when I get there I find (even with my max jump Conda) that I can't get there.

My absolute max range with 100% boost is 118ly thats with SRV's on board however my last trip I found to be 40ly short with no neutrons around.

Cheers

Nutter
o7
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The problem is change. Everything moves, distances between systems change. A star that was closer to you than another star a year or a month earlier may be farther away now than that other star. The galaxy map will easily show distances between systems simply select a starting system, mouse over a star system you want to know the distance to and it will appear in the system's pop-up window.
 
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Esvandiary

Esvandiary
JetsonRING said:
The problem is change. Everything moves, distances between systems change. A star that was closer to you than another star a year or a month earlier may be farther away now than that other star. The galaxy map will easily show distances between systems simply select a starting system, mouse over a star system you want to know the distance to and it will appear in the system's pop-up window.
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Whilst this is true in real life, it definitely isn't true in ED. Within-system distances can change due to orbital mechanics, but the system positions themselves are fixed. EDSM would have a pretty sad time if this wasn't the case!

Frontier could manually update all the positions of the hand-authored systems now and then if they really wanted, but they couldn't do the same with the procedurally-generated systems.
 
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Oss133

Oss133
"Is there a tool that will measure the distance between two systems?"

Yeah, sure. I'll have a go, mate. I've been called worse.
 

Wylie28

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Allitnil said:
You're missing that the stars aren't all in a straight line. Two stars might be 200 LY apart but only 1 LY different distances from where you are now.

FWIW, the orange hats are the best way of telling whether you can reach a particular system or not. But they aren't much use once you get to neutron star boosting levels of jump range (200+ LY) as you struggle to be able to both select one system and see the other! Works well for the outer rims though where you're only interested in jumponium boosts so currently about 125 LY max.

If you are trying to use neutron boosts to get as far above or below the galactic plane as possible then estimating the co-ordinates and using Pythagoras is the only realistic option. You can estimate the co-ords to +/- 0.1 LY accuracy so can get pretty accurate distances.
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In that case its still just finding the missing side of a triangle. This is middle school geometry. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ba...area-triangle/v/triangle-missing-side-example
 

Toffmeister

Toffmeister
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