Just realised how much the galaxy map has been made worse since 1.3.....
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Yes, was a performance tweak. Quote from the "Answers from developers #1" https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3cslqk/answers_from_the_developers/
I think it's pretty clear that the "New, Improved" (!) display is NOT displaying 2000 stars in map mode, post-filter.
I guess it is considering 2000 stars for display, then applying the filter.
This results in a Galaxy Map that has been optimised to the point where it has to display maybe twenty relevant systems. Or possibly one. But usually none. We then need to scroll around madly, like someone with poor eyesight reading a newspaper with a magnifying lens.
I'm over 15,000 LY from home right now, but not "in the core". So, like the other 99.99% of players, my Galaxy Map "map mode with filter" is woefully inadequate. The 0.01% of players actually in the core will have steady frame rates... but that's a pretty lousy balance, in my opinion. I was heading towards the core fully expecting trouble with the navigation systems, and wasn't going to whine about it. I certainly didn't want every other player to suffer so I could choose my coreward journey more easily...
I guess it is considering 2000 stars for display, then applying the filter.
This results in a Galaxy Map that has been optimised to the point where it has to display maybe twenty relevant systems. Or possibly one. But usually none. We then need to scroll around madly, like someone with poor eyesight reading a newspaper with a magnifying lens.
I'm over 15,000 LY from home right now, but not "in the core". So, like the other 99.99% of players, my Galaxy Map "map mode with filter" is woefully inadequate. The 0.01% of players actually in the core will have steady frame rates... but that's a pretty lousy balance, in my opinion. I was heading towards the core fully expecting trouble with the navigation systems, and wasn't going to whine about it. I certainly didn't want every other player to suffer so I could choose my coreward journey more easily...
Sadly it's this sort of "optimisation" that leads to legitimate complaints about the graphics being dumbed down for the XBox. We're PC users, used to adjusting settings to create the best experience for our PC. We don't need someone else telling us what is good for us and dictating that we must have reduced functionality.
Worse though, as part of this they have positively removed some functionality. When I was first in the core in February, the navigation route spider-web could be used. This was helpful if you just couldn't get the route planner to plot as you could always wait a few seconds for the spider-web to draw and then pick a star at the end of it as you knew this would always then give an instant route. Now the spider-web will only draw to about 12 LY which is so small that it might as well be disabled entirely. Even at 2,000 LY above or below the core where the stars are anything but dense, you are still limited to that 12 LY range which makes it harder to find systems at the limits of the top & bottom.
This sort of thing is exactly why I despair of exploration ever getting the attention it deserves. The devs are either not thinking about the impact their decisions have on us or else they are and then choosing to make our experience worse.
Worse though, as part of this they have positively removed some functionality. When I was first in the core in February, the navigation route spider-web could be used. This was helpful if you just couldn't get the route planner to plot as you could always wait a few seconds for the spider-web to draw and then pick a star at the end of it as you knew this would always then give an instant route. Now the spider-web will only draw to about 12 LY which is so small that it might as well be disabled entirely. Even at 2,000 LY above or below the core where the stars are anything but dense, you are still limited to that 12 LY range which makes it harder to find systems at the limits of the top & bottom.
This sort of thing is exactly why I despair of exploration ever getting the attention it deserves. The devs are either not thinking about the impact their decisions have on us or else they are and then choosing to make our experience worse.
Indeed that's an issue. I headed for a cluster of O-type stars on this most recent exploration trip, assuming it would be already well explored but something for me to see. The lack of stars to latch onto when filtering and scanned through the Galactic Map meant I ended up adding a few G and M type stars so at least something would show up to plot routes to. Even with tight clusters of the target star type, one has to have the camera set very precisely to see them all, or at all at times.
I wish there was a slider for number of stars to consider when generating the galactic model then...
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I have noticed the same.
Before 1.3 I went into galaxy map and could pick my next system 99% of the time without having to navigate the map. After 1.3 you have to zoom out and scout for your next target.
Frontier once again showing their love for exploration.
Before 1.3 I went into galaxy map and could pick my next system 99% of the time without having to navigate the map. After 1.3 you have to zoom out and scout for your next target.
Frontier once again showing their love for exploration.
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The ultra preset in ED only uses a small fraction of my main PC's resources (specs in sig). Four long run GPUGRID work units running simultaneously in the background while I play ED use much more without changing ED's gaming performance.My main PC is even starting to get a little long in the tooth now as it's using previous gen. of the high end CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.
Moral of the story(?): This is why consoles deserve to be hated.
On my current trip I thought the neutron fields were looking a little sparse, but put it down as a consequence of the FD changes.