I have been playing the Gamma version of Elite Dangerous and the Navigation in the game is really spoiling things for me. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but if not I can't believe why more prople aren't complaining about this. Here are some of the issues:
1/ The Galaxy map is so hard to navigate around. Its like navigating a maze - sometimes you follow a route and it ends at a dead end. If you try to get information on the system to see if it has somewhere to dock, when you jump back out of the system view it resets your position and your disorientated as to where you are on the map. Im I missing something fundamental here?
2/ Why oh why can Frontier not implement way points (so you can select a number of jumps in one go and then just automatically go to the next one after each jump) - I've seen loads of people asking for this but there's just no feedback from the developers as to why this isn't being done. Instead, every time you do a jump you have to go back to the galaxy map to remind yourself where you have to go to next.
3/ I'm restricted to flying round one small area because if I try to go any distance I end up running out of fuel because none of the jumps I visit has anywhere to dock to refuel in. So a few times I had to kill myself in space as it would have taken >1 year to reach the nearest star!!!
4/ So, the solution to 3 would be to buy a fuel scoop. But where the heck can you buy one? I can't find one anywhere in the system I'm in so I hop around from station to station never being able to explore any further since going further means I run out of fuel (catch-22)
5/ Sometimes when you come out of the hyperjump your so far away from your destination, it takes about 5-10 minutes to reach the station. Seriously guys, its bad enough wasting time playing this game without having to sit about waiting to get to a station. Some people on the forums say they like this as its more 'realistic'. Seriously???? its just frustrating. and its not as if you can go and get a cup of tea because by the time you get back you've slightly drifted off course and are even further away!!
6/ Oh, just want to mention the HORRIBLE galaxy map again - developers this needs cleaned up in a major way. the menus that pop up when your navigating hide the names. I'm sure this has some very fancy programming behind it but its so annoying that the elegance of your coding skills is lost in the frustration of using it!!!
OK, that's my venting over. Its just a shame Frontier spent so much effort on physics and graphics and 'realism' only to spoil the gameplay utterly by not being able to get anywhere! Now maybe I'm being stupid here and I'm missing some major option that needs to be turned on and if that's the case, please forgive me (and tell me what I'm doing wrong)
