Dear People Who Decide What Gets Done in Frontier,
Planetary navigation is terrible.
This becomes apparent when trying to reach a set of LAT/LON coordinates on a planet surface, when there is no waypoint (like in a surface recovery mission).
Try reaching a LAT/LON from space, to glide, to the surface. It is nigh on impossible.
Sure, we can get into Orbital Cruise, and we have a display of LAT/LON. But then you're trying to change direction of orbit relative to planet surface and the coords. Trying to get the coords to go up/down/positive/negative at just the correct rate so they will converge at the desired LAT/LON.
Then, even when you're getting close to the target, you have to try and judge the right moment when to come out of orbital cruise to glide down to the surface - you'll probably overshoot badly.
In short, this is a terrible experience.
So for 2.4 - please, please allocate some dev time to marking a surface waypoint we can target, by way of the 3D surface map in the System Map.
Please!?
Yeah Nah.
It's one of the last pieces of actual airmanship in the game.
Just replace it with an easy mode?
I'll be so disappointed if Frontier ever heed these types of pleas.
I would like to see player beacons.
Like a tourist beacon, but with the text set by players.
When you scan it gives back the text and the names of first to scan and most recent to scan.
Might require like a size 5 cargo bay and cost about fifty million. Or five hundred million. Whatever.
Barrier to entry kinda thing.