Newbee, I have a few questions about Navagation?

[veger]

HI! I am a newbee and have looked at a few vids and now I am able to land my ship and take off but have a few questions about the map.

1: How to you know in our " locations under Navigation " if a place is dockable? I have went to quick a few and some where white starts ( obviously not dockable ) and a few planets that I cannot seems to communicate with ( When I get close I see nothing in the contact to request docking. )

2: Once in a system I notice more info in the " locations under Navigation " and symbols to the left, do this symbols tell us anything if a place has a dockable area?

3: Is there a way in the Galaxy MAP to see which places are dockable or is the only way first to explorer the area the it will show you more info?

4: Does the Galaxy Map list at the planet in a selected system?
I have not been to "Ovid system" yet, and it list Ovid A and B as star types, there is more than just 2 Starts in that system right? and if I visit it, it will then mark it in the MAP for future reference because I have visited it and it logged it.?

 

[Vargur]

The galaxy map isn't complete yet.
There will be system maps later on which will give you more detailed information about the system you are looking at. Check this for some early examples http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16655

Currently there's only maximum one station in each system, some systems have no station. At release there can be multiple stations in each system, and even much later in a year or two we will be able to land on planets.

To know at glance where you can land, look at the galaxy map.
If the system has an economy listed, then it has a station. If it mention Economy: None, then there is no station.

In your navigation panel on the left you can see all objects with different icons, and they will all be listed with indentations which indicate the objects orbit hierarchy. So stations orbit planets or moons, moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, and some stars orbit other stars. And they all have their icons.
A station will have an icon that looks like a big square with a little square inside turned 45 degrees.

 

[veger]

Thanks you very much, that does answer a few things. hmm I guess I could also look in the commodity exchange and see if there is jobs for delivery in systems, that could also tell me where there is dockable systems.

Did they say when they plan to release the Map updates?

 

[stridecolossus]

HI! I am a newbee and have looked at a few vids and now I am able to land my ship and take off but have a few questions about the map.

Welcome commander.

1: How to you know in our " locations under Navigation " if a place is dockable? I have went to quick a few and some where white starts ( obviously not dockable ) and a few planets that I cannot seems to communicate with ( When I get close I see nothing in the contact to request docking. )

2: Once in a system I notice more info in the " locations under Navigation " and symbols to the left, do this symbols tell us anything if a place has a dockable area?

The symbols in the locations menu are icons representing the objects that you can navigate to: a star for - well - stars (there can be several in some systems), round symbols for planets and octagons for stations.

3: Is there a way in the Galaxy MAP to see which places are dockable or is the only way first to explorer the area the it will show you more info?

Not currently but there will be at some point. In the galaxy map, if a system has an economy and a population then it almost always has a station, although I've found one (26 Draconis) that breaks this 'rule'.

4: Does the Galaxy Map list at the planet in a selected system?
I have not been to "Ovid system" yet, and it list Ovid A and B as star types, there is more than just 2 Starts in that system right? and if I visit it, it will then mark it in the MAP for future reference because I have visited it and it logged it.?

Yes there can be multiple stars.

There's no way to 'mark' the map as far as I am aware, not sure if there ever will be.

 

[veger]

Thanks for all the info commanders