Hi FD,
I'm an explorer first and foremost, so I spend a lot of time in supercruise, my ship pointed at various astronomical bodies. With the release of Horizons, we now have bodies upon which we can land, and while in supercruise the HUD panel for such a body now shows the distance and speed targets to enter orbit and proceed to land. However, this now hides the previous panel with the astronomical body type (which itself hides the previous info displaying the planet's diameter if you don't have a detailed surface scanner). Not all commanders will play Horizons, or wish to land on every body, making this new panel info not very useful in many cases.
My suggestion, then, is to let us page through some different info panels for the target body. I see an analogue to targeting different ship subsystems for combat, you could even re-use the same key binding for both commands (I think the subsystem targeting is the "Y" key by default). It could save opening the system map sometimes by having the info you want on the HUD (personally I rarely use the system map, and when I do it's tens of seconds waiting for it to load). At a minimum I'd like to be able to see the body type the same as pre-Horizons, but bonus points for any other info on the body that could be put there or made available by paging through.
Thanks!
I'm an explorer first and foremost, so I spend a lot of time in supercruise, my ship pointed at various astronomical bodies. With the release of Horizons, we now have bodies upon which we can land, and while in supercruise the HUD panel for such a body now shows the distance and speed targets to enter orbit and proceed to land. However, this now hides the previous panel with the astronomical body type (which itself hides the previous info displaying the planet's diameter if you don't have a detailed surface scanner). Not all commanders will play Horizons, or wish to land on every body, making this new panel info not very useful in many cases.
My suggestion, then, is to let us page through some different info panels for the target body. I see an analogue to targeting different ship subsystems for combat, you could even re-use the same key binding for both commands (I think the subsystem targeting is the "Y" key by default). It could save opening the system map sometimes by having the info you want on the HUD (personally I rarely use the system map, and when I do it's tens of seconds waiting for it to load). At a minimum I'd like to be able to see the body type the same as pre-Horizons, but bonus points for any other info on the body that could be put there or made available by paging through.
Thanks!