Navigation by galactic coordinates...

Neilski

Neilski
Disclaimer: I'm a noob at exploration in general and doubly so when it comes to fleet carriers.

I am attempting to navigate my carrier to a certain spot (not super-far from the bubble really - about 3.5 kly) and I had intended to just pick a suitable star from the galmap in-game and then ask the spansh FC router to get me there. This immediately failed as the star isn't known to spansh (or EDSM or the rest).
What I guess I could really use is a simple way to fetch from the discovered-star databases the list of stars near a given set of coordinates (e.g. 3000,200,1000), and I'd then just pick one and ask spansh to plot a route, 500 ly at a time...
I haven't yet found a way to find stars near a given location in galactic coords - does one exist? For now I will probably just have to do it "by hand" but if no such capability exists on any of the normal sites then I may end up trying to create it myself.
 

Zieman

Zieman
Not using much such tools, so haven't heard of any that could do what you describe.

That said, you could probably get info about within which sector (1280 ly * 1280 ly * 1280 ly cube) the coordinates from some such service (paging @marx & co.).

And then with that info (or without it, if you figure it out - I don't think I could) get the boxel within which the coords reside in, maybe iteratively from mass code A up (may need at least D or E to ensure it works in sparse areas), with info in this thread & its links:

RV Sonnenkreis - Decoding Universal Cartographics

Following a lead from CMDR shadmar, I spent some time surveying the sector OUTORST in my Clipper, the RV Sonnenkreis. Updated! As per this post, we now have the tools to resolve the position of any sector and approximate position of systems within the sector. Kudos to CMDR Alot (Esvandiary)...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
 

varonica

varonica
Neilski said:
What I guess I could really use is a simple way to fetch from the discovered-star databases the list of stars near a given set of coordinates (e.g. 3000,200,1000), and I'd then just pick one and ask spansh to plot a route, 500 ly at a time...
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What I usually do is use my ship to set a course, then set up bookmarks around every 500ly along that same route to jump my carrier to. The reason for this is I often fly along the route between carrier jumps, and that way I know I will always end up with me and the carrier at the same star when I want to take a break and just jump ahead while on board the carrier.
 

Arnoldo

A
varonica said:
What I usually do is use my ship to set a course, then set up bookmarks around every 500ly along that same route to jump my carrier to. The reason for this is I often fly along the route between carrier jumps, and that way I know I will always end up with me and the carrier at the same star when I want to take a break and just jump ahead while on board the carrier.
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^^^ This and/or the Spansh FC route planner for long journeys plus judicious use of the Nearest System tool mentioned by Cmdr Factabulous...

PS: Thanks for the tools Cmdr Spansh!!
 

JJGoldberg

J
I normally use system search instead of nearest system, and add on the main fields reference coordinates (the coordinates I want to reach)

This allows me to see trhe nearest anyway, and other neighbours, and gives me more flexibility
 
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