Mission briefings: show distance from jump-in point to destination port

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Honestly, the only thing I would need is something like
<1000ls
1000-10,000ls
10,000-100,000ls
>100,000ls
I only would like to know if it will be 1. a nice and short trip, 2. a somewhat long, but still acceptable trip or 3. something I really don't want to do if not absolutely necessary.
I don't need to know the exact semi-major axis of the station or if it's closer to its periapsis or apoapsis. This is Elite, not Kerbal Space Program

(By the way, I just typed this - after smoking and doing some other things ... - while cruising from Gliese 171.2 B to Kondratyev Port (1,053,099ls) for a simple data courier mission )

I'd support this.

My map takes a while to load on my not too shabby PC, and it can be a bit of a pain to keep opening and closing the map. On my Potato laptop, I'm lucky if it ever loads. Lol

The annoying thing is, is if you want to check the system from the mission board, you first need to click the button for the galaxy map, wait for that, then click the button for system map, and wait for that, then find out station, and check it's distance.

Another QoL feature would to simply put "Open In System Map" on the mission board next to the Galaxy map option. Half the time I don't care what system it is, it's what's in the system that I need to know. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

I'd support this.

My map takes a while to load on my not too shabby PC, and it can be a bit of a pain to keep opening and closing the map. On my Potato laptop, I'm lucky if it ever loads. Lol

The annoying thing is, is if you want to check the system from the mission board, you first need to click the button for the galaxy map, wait for that, then click the button for system map, and wait for that, then find out station, and check it's distance.

Another QoL feature would to simply put "Open In System Map" on the mission board next to the Galaxy map option. Half the time I don't care what system it is, it's what's in the system that I need to know. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

+rep because i said exactly the same just a few posts earlier

 

[Seamus Donohue]

Frontier implemented this! It's in 2.4 Beta 1, the closed beta, right now!

Thanks Frontier!

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

Frontier implemented this! It's in 2.4 Beta 1, the closed beta, right now!

Thanks Frontier!

who said its not possible?

 

[Lestat]

You know they added the Galaxy map to Mission board for a reason. It not for show. It for you to look up galaxy map and system map. Complaining about 10 seconds is funny.

What people forget if they add this it just going to take 5 to 10 seconds longer to have the mission board to load up.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

You know they added the Galaxy map to Mission board for a reason. It not for show. It for you to look up galaxy map and system map. Complaining about 10 seconds is funny.

What people forget if they add this it just going to take 5 to 10 seconds longer to have the mission board to load up.

thank you for ignoring that not everyone plays the game from a state-of-the-art device with a state-of-the-art internet connection.
and what you forget, is that they implemented just this in the beta and the board loads faster.

it actually takes longer to render the galmap and system map by a hundred times, then for the server, that generates the mission, to check up on the distances from its database.
and ontop of it, the data is used by the mission generator ANYWAY to calculate the reward for the mission.

now come down from your high horse and face reality...

 

[Lestat]

Well nice, I don't have the super internet connection. In fact, I don't have Cellphone reception in my area. I live in a small town in the mountains. So Nice try with you must have a super excuse.

Did you not understand. IF this feature added. It will slow down our mission load up time because the servers will have to look up System data. Plus how many people are also looking up missions at the same time and waiting for the same data. Which would cause lag

We also have to face the fact Not all the system are offered to players because they are not explored.

So maybe you need to face reality and put your toy My little pony back into the toy box.

 

[Allchemyst]

Well nice, I don't have the super internet connection. In fact, I don't have Cellphone reception in my area. I live in a small town in the mountains. So Nice try with you must have a super excuse.

Did you not understand. IF this feature added. It will slow down our mission load up time because the servers will have to look up System data. Plus how many people are also looking up missions at the same time and waiting for the same data. Which would cause lag

We also have to face the fact Not all the system are offered to players because they are not explored.

So maybe you need to face reality and put your toy My little pony back into the toy box.

Lestat, once again, you refuse to even read what's being said to you - or simply understand what FD is actually doing.

1) The mission board's loading time has been immeasurably improved. - NO ONE is going to suffer from longer loading times with this update.

2) EVEN IF this update hadn't come with a loading time improvement, we would no longer need to check the Galmap at all while picking missions! We'd only need to open the mission board once per session. That's A LOT of time saved, no matter how you present it. Every. Body. Wins.

The only "reality "to be faced here is that you're sour because FD has implemented an amazing feature you have spent months arguing against - for no reason at all, mind you.

It's quite funny, when you think about it... You argued against people being able to opt out of destination changes in missions, and FD implemented precisely that... You were also against showing station distance in the mission board, and FD, once again, delivered...

The things you hate look like a good indicator of the game's direction... I'll pay closer attention to what you don't want to see in Elite, because that's probably what FD will add next!


All that being said, thought... Thank you so much, FD. THANK YOU! That's going to be such a massive relief!