Question about navigation on Galactic map

Angus

Angus
Hi,

On the Galactic map, I'm a bit confused. If you can jump to a system, (ie none of the jumps to that system exceed your range) does that mean it will be connected to your location with the blue lines? So, if you had a 40 light year jump capability pretty much all the stars in the galaxy would be connected by the blue lines, os does it just go out from your location to a certain distance?

I'm basically trying to plot a route towards Sol from Aiabiko and I think I'm gonna need a bigger boat. :)
 

bobmarleyontoast

B
In one of the panels on the left of the map you can select between the most economical routes and the fastest route, neither will show routes to all the stars you can reach, which I find a little annoying. I would prefer to be shown every route I could reach, then when you click on the next star, be shown every route you could take from there too.
 

FX2K

FX2K
metatheurgist said:
I haven't tested this theory, but I believe the size of the linked systems is restricted by your fuel capacity.
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No its not :( it just doesn't plan a full route for you. I'm not sure on exactly what distance the lines stop joining but its not based on fuel.
It's also annoying that you have to use the galaxy map constantly for > 18ly (approx) jumps since they don't always display in the left nav window.

Since the navigation is a pita, I recently started using this via my ipad, very handy for long routes and saved fiddling with the galaxy map all the time, just have to search for the system via the galaxy map every now and then (due to not showing in the left nav window):
https://cmdr.club/routes/
 
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McBadger

McBadger
metatheurgist said:
I haven't tested this theory, but I believe the size of the linked systems is restricted by your fuel capacity.
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I think its actually more that the blue lines only spread to systems in around a 50ly bubble around your current location.

To the OP. I recently made my move to Sol from the Aiabako system earlier today in my stock Cobra. If your running a ship that can jump 10.7ly I can throw you the jump destinations to help you get there if it would help you :) Its possible to jump there fully on a 16t Fuel tank, Anything less would require judicious thinking to refuel. (Theres a known system halfway however in your case)

I didnt have to refuel once in my Cobra, yet the blue lines stopped at around that 50ly mark and gradually caught up as I ventured further :)
 

Angus

Angus
Many thanks for the thoughts guys, hopefully the wonderful map (I love it) will be improved in its user friendliness, and more documentation will appear.
 

FX2K

FX2K
Angus said:
Many thanks for the thoughts guys, hopefully the wonderful map (I love it) will be improved in its user friendliness, and more documentation will appear.
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This was posted yesterday ;)

Sandro Sammarco said:
Hello Commander T3chnophobia!

Well, I've just played a build that has some route plotting, so hopefully that should be in a build soon. It has a range limit due to technical constraints, but for reasonably short journeys of several stops, I know I'm quite happy with the result :).

How does it work?

Well, you lock a destination in the galaxy map and use a "plot route" option.next to it. As well as show the route in the galaxy map and a marker on the next step, it automatically targets the next step in the journey when you go back to the cockpit view.

However, you can deselect it and find it again because it has a cute little "plot" icon next to it (I love team GUI - they rock).

Once you jump, upon arrival the next step is targeted, and so on.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69700&page=9&p=1160364&viewfull=1#post1160364
 
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