Route Plotting Option: manual Slider to reduce max Jump Range

Billaien

Billaien
Personally i prefer to fly my ships without a Fuel Scoop within the Bubble, especially when i do Ody Content.
Fastest Route plotting is great, but sometimes i have to take a stop somewhere along the Route and refuel at a Station because its just beyond my Ships reach.
Economic Route would reach the Destination with ease, while increasing the total one-way range drasticly, but ill have to jump about 4-5 times compared to fastest.

I simply want to have an option in my Route Plotter where i can tell it to only go up to X Ly per jump.

For example, my Ship has about 30 Ly max range.
With the Slider, i could reduce the "max range" down to 15 Ly per Jump.
This would save up Fuel and extend my total Range before i need to refuel.
While also only doubling the amount of Jumps i have to make, instead of quad/quintupling them.
 

Billaien

Billaien
well there is, but it only works if you have cargo racks installed.
and even then, if you put it to the max, it only reduces your jumprange by so little, around 10% ?
 

Sylow

Sylow
You currently can swap between optimizing for fuel efficiency or number of jumps. Not as conveniently as in the old UI, but the option still is there. So i have to admit, this was always good enough for my personal needs up to now.

That being said, i actually like this suggestion. Especially if it was added to the UI in a better way than what we currently have. So i think it'd be good too have and should, at least according to my understanding, not be too complicated to implement.

The person using it just might have to keep in mind: when plotting routes through some areas, artificially limiting your jump range might result in a huge re-route or even disallowing you to plot a route at all. (I remember at some time, when going a few thousand LY away in my Asp Exlorer even, where i had a few systems with merely two other stars in jump range: the one i came from, and the one i went to... even at maximum jump range, my ship barely was able to find a route through that part of the galaxy. )

But knowing that would be user responsibility, the suggestion still is perfectly sound in my eyes. :)
 

The Horr0r

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Very nice idea! Semi-economic routes are great for short jaunts around the bubble and for neutrunning across the galaxy. They can also be achieved by adding optional fuel tanks or disabling a Guardian FSD Booster prior to plotting.
 

Northpin

Northpin
I always wished a slider for max fuel consumption
Our FSD jumping range is limited by the maximum fuel used per jump - for example a size 5A FSD can use maximum 5t of fuel per jump (without Deep Charge experimental)

I'd really wish a slider to limit this value - max fuel usage per jump (similar to the cargo slider)
 
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