Lock destination station at departure station.

[Tryst]

I am not keen on having to veer away from the sun and then go to the navigation panel again to find your station. Once or twice I have knocked the mouse while trying to find the station I want and had to quickly exit the nav console before I'd found the station and locked it because my ship is spinning crazily near the sun. Other times, I have spent a bit of time while flying away from the sun to find the station, only to find I am flying in totally the opposite direction.

Can't it be done the same way as the original Elite? Select the galaxy map, set your target and then go to the system map for your target galaxy and select the station. It could be done via the navigtion console too. Select the target system and it then switches to a list of stations you can choose from.

Once you hyperdrive to the system, you come out near the sun at the nav marker and the station is already targeted. All you need to do is turn your ship toward it and keep flying, no need to go to the nav console again unless you decide to change stations mid flight.

For those who want to stick around the nav marker at the sun, they can still do so. Exit supercruise once they arrive at the sun. Then they can sit around scanning the targets all they want.

This isn't an autopilot request, it's just to make it easier when flying from one point to another. Not having to do other things when you are so close to the sun makes life a little bit safer.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

point away from the sun before going to the nav menu on the left to select the station, then use the compass to line up with it. its not going to change so you may as well just get used to it.

 

[shabbyj]

Or pull the throttle back completely during jump and you have all the time in the world to select the station then.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

Or pull the throttle back completely during jump and you have all the time in the world to select the station then.

not really, in SC zero throttle still means you are traveling along at 30 Kps, better to turn away and be safe than find yourself dumped out of SC because you're too close to one of the super-massive stars.

 

[zabadoh]

This is a great idea!

If you've visited the system already and so have the stations' and other destinations' navigation data, you should be able to select any of those points as a destination from a different system.

 

[Magic Man]

As others have said, correct your course first before changing navigation. It's not such a big thing really...

 

[Honeycone]

I find it to be non-discussably obvious that you should be able to plan your route to individual stations instead of just different systems.

 

[Hank]

+1
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I don't know why this couldn't be added ... its not an autopilot its simply flagging another destination after you enter the system; you still have to manually turn toward it.
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(kind of falls under the "we have this today in 2015 but not in 3300? ... rear facing cameras, GPS mapping devices, etc etc)
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have a nice day

 

[Uueerdo]

I support this idea as well. It is beyond tedious having to do that every time, especially when there are a couple dozen resource belts between you and your destination.

 

[dementia]

not really, in SC zero throttle still means you are traveling along at 30 Kps, better to turn away and be safe than find yourself dumped out of SC because you're too close to one of the super-massive stars.

True but I think ShabbyJ's point was that it is very easy to avoid burning up just by getting into the habit of pulling back on the throttle as soon as the FSD countdown timer starts. You then have oodles of time in which to quick turn away from the star whilst you fiddle with the nav computer. A couple of extremely quick and simple steps to avoid catastrophe.

 

[Tryst]

True but I think ShabbyJ's point was that it is very easy to avoid burning up just by getting into the habit of pulling back on the throttle as soon as the FSD countdown timer starts. You then have oodles of time in which to quick turn away from the star whilst you fiddle with the nav computer. A couple of extremely quick and simple steps to avoid catastrophe.

True and I do it all the time, only I throttle back to 50%. It's just tedious having to lock another destination straight after the jump, especially if you find you've been flying in the opposite direction to your target station since you opened the nav panel. Most of the time, you already know where you're going and the only time you won't get a list of stations to choose from is if there is no navigational data for that system. If you've been there a dozen times already, don't you think your nav computer would know what's there ahead of the jump? Although the original Elite had autopilot, we still had the ability to target the destination station from the system map for the target system and we could still fly there manually if we decided not to use autopilot. All this request does is implement something we always had before in elite games minus the autopilot.

At present, you open your nav console to be presented by a list of planets, belts, suns and stations. In the starter system alone (LHS 3447), there are a list of 50 items to scroll through to find the one you want. That's cluttered by anyone's standards and even refining it to a list of stations only unless you chose otherwise would be far better. Unless you're bounty hunting, few people would go to anything other than a station on entering a system if there are stations in that system, even if only to refuel before doing what other activities they want to do. Bounty hunters going there for nothing but their target, only to return to their original system afterward, would target the system only and no station. Jump in kill your target and jump out.