Newcomer / Intro Navigating longer journeys, multiple routs

[Rudolpho]

Hello,

I have recently begun playing Elite and love exploring the Universe. My biggest gripe however is trip routing for longer journeys. Yesterday I took a 33 jump trip to Alpha Centauri, scanning what I could for money along the way. The problem I encountered though is that every time I chianged to a local system target for scanning I lose my overall rout to Alpha Centauri. Is there a way to always have your next system jump marked while being able to change local system targets? I find if extremely tedious, and in the case of being attacked, dangerous to have to renavigate my jumps each time I want to leave a system.

 

[CMDR Nightjar]

Used to annoy me too - the routing/target selection is a bit crutzy
You can map a key to 'target next destination' (or something like that) in the options/controls menu. The route you've planned is 'saved'! Only saved for the session tho'.
When you've finished exploring, hit the key, line up and go.

 

[quickr]

sure there is.... when you plan your route, than jump into a system with newly discovered astro. object, after you scan it, when you check your systems list on the left side panel, you'll see a 3 connected dots next to a system that's on your jump route...

 

[Feldspar]

It you go into the control settings on options, the key binding you want is at the bottom of the targeting section. It is unbound by default.

 

[Hellhawk666]

sure there is.... when you plan your route, than jump into a system with newly discovered astro. object, after you scan it, when you check your systems list on the left side panel, you'll see a 3 connected dots next to a system that's on your jump route...

Yes, this. Your jump route never gets lost unless you go to the galmap and intentionally change it. You can target local astronomical objects, ships, stations etc and the next destination in the jump route will stay marked for later selection when needed.

(There was a glitch once where the route could get lost in some conditions, but it seems to be fixed now).