Number of jumps change after logging on?

[Happy Seal]

I did a quick search on this but nothing really came up. . .I usually stop at an even number of jumps before I log off. I haven't really been paying attention to them after I log back on except for today. The first time I'm sure it was off by about 7 jumps. This time I made sure to screenshot it, and 2 jump difference in the course plot came up. I made sure all my settings were the same and they are. Has anyone else ran into this or is there an explanation for it? Time between logout and in was ~2 hours if that matters. . .

 

[BradHann]

Did the amount of fuel and/or cargo you have change at all?

 

[damon8r351]

When you log back in from being offline, your course is re-plotted from your current position, and it will take into acoount changes in your fuel level and your current position in plotting the new course.

 

[Gunnet]

I suspect it's an effect of the 2.4 route plotting changes. It got much faster and became capable of plotting routes twenty times as long. Assuming it wasn't horribly implemented before (and I do assume that), the speed probably came from making it spend less time searching for an absolutely optimal route. If that's the case, replotting from the middle of a route would no longer produce an identical route to before, which could give you a small amount of variation in the number of jumps.

Not a bad price to pay to avoid dealing with combinatorial explosion when trying to figure out a thousand jump route. Although it's all pure speculation on my part of course.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

I suspect it's an effect of the 2.4 route plotting changes. It got much faster and became capable of plotting routes twenty times as long. Assuming it wasn't horribly implemented before (and I do assume that), the speed probably came from making it spend less time searching for an absolutely optimal route. If that's the case, replotting from the middle of a route would no longer produce an identical route to before, which could give you a small amount of variation in the number of jumps.

Not a bad price to pay to avoid dealing with combinatorial explosion when trying to figure out a thousand jump route. Although it's all pure speculation on my part of course.

I find it more wonky than before. IMO, they should allow for different degrees of precision when plotting for a case by case basis.