The Elite: Dangerous Index can be found at
https://www.spansh.co.uk
Features
- Route plotter, so you can plot a route between systems prioritising neutron star supercharging to reduce your journey time
- Waypoint routing, allows you to route via systems you may like to visit on the way (Sol to Beagle Point via Colonia and Sagittarius A*)
- Prioritises supercharged jumps
- Breaks plots over 20000LY automatically
- No maximum distance
- No maximum jump range
- If you do not wish to prioritise neutrons (and simply want a route breaking down into roughly 20000LY gaps) then set the efficiency to 100%
- Display your route on a graphical map of the galaxy compared to the direct route so you can see how far from the straight line you deviate.
- Allows you to find nearby "known" systems from rough coordinates (useful if the system you're trying to get to hasn't been visited before).
- Display a map of known neutron stars in the galaxy to let explorers see where they should explore next
- Road to riches router to find you a route passing through high value systems with bodies to scan
- Saves scanned bodies so that it will not re-generate them (log in to the site required)
- System searching to find systems with unusual/desired attributes
- Body searching to find bodies with desired attributes (for instance particular materials)
- Trade route generator to optimise your trading
The tool will minimise the number of jumps you have to make during a long distance journey. For instance a trip from Sol to Colonia with a 40LY range normally would take 2 visits to the galaxy map and roughly 600 jumps. With neutron boosting it comes down to 164 trips to the galaxy map (roughly 213 jumps at 60% efficiency). Going up to a 45LY range it would be 2 visits to the galaxy map and 540 jumps. With neutron boosting it comes down to 112 trips (124 jumps at 60% efficiency).
In order to use it just put in your start system and destination system and your jump range and hit submit. It will then give you a list of star systems to plot via the galaxy map. You can tweak the efficiency in order to control how far off the direct route the system will take you to find neutron stars (The in game router tends to work roughly the same as 99.5 efficiency).
Short story,
- Enable "Use jet-cone boost" option on the galaxy map.
- Put system into the galaxy map in game (PC users can click the "Copy" button and paste it)
- Click plot
- Jump until you get to the system
- If the system is a neutron star, supercharge your FSD
- Take the next system on the list and go to 1
It does not currently take into account the requirement to stop for fuel or repairs to your FSD so pay attention and make the odd detour to scoop when you're getting low on fuel or need to repair. What I tend to do is jump until I have 1 jumps worth of fuel left and then route myself to a KGBFOAM star closest to the next neutron star I was heading to. Because of a lack of data, it is also possible that it will route you via a neutron boost into a group of systems which you do not have the jump range to get out of, so please be a little careful (this is mostly a problem with a very low base jump range).
It can take up to a minute to calculate a very long route through a particularly badly mapped area so be patient. It will tell you if it has broken for any reason.
Edit History
Edit 02/12/2016: I spent some time optimising the site this evening with some new ideas, I had optimistically envisaged a 5-10x speedup. However the resulting speedup is somewhere in the region of 50-100x, a Sol to Colonia plot now takes under 2 seconds.
Edit 11/01/2017: Substantially upgraded the server, plots should now be speedier and will run more at the same time.
Edit 26/05/2017: Another speed up on the router, fixed a bug with intermediate system jumps. Added waypoints to routing.
Edit 16/08/2017: Beta site link with new features
Edit 18/08/2017: Added 2.4 information
Edit 19/03/2019: Large update with new features