Some kind of GPS?

[Mountain Dewed]

If there is one, great?! Tell me how to use it please?

I would like to be able to go back to some places I've been but would never be able to find the exact location again. I wouldn't even know which USS I used. If we could mark our position so it would leave a Signal, maybe only on a frequency that the commander setting could acquire. There isn't much now to use for unless you wanted to go back and fight an NPC that you lost to or couldn't grab all the prototypes/military plans.

This could be good just for notes also as we travel back through an area and maybe stop off at the three breasted, blue haired freaks starpad...

 

[Tiamat]

USS instances are randomly spawned and the contents randomly generated when you drop into them. They cease to exist once you leave them.

Right now there is nothing like this other than manual logging or verbose netlogs but there is a lot of talk happening about a possible API that we could use to read data out of the game. That way people can make apps/website to do all sorts of things and a Commander log is one topic that has been raised many times.

Look in this file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002\AppConfig.xml

	<Network
	  Port="0"
	 upnpenabled="1"
	  LogFile="netLog"
	  DatestampLog="1"
	  VerboseLogging="1"
	  >

Add the VerboseLogging line to the Network section and the netlog files in the Logs folder will capture the systems you visit but that is all you can do for now.

It is worth checking those logs from time to time as there are some amusing comments in there sometimes.

{13:14:31} Took over 0.000000 seconds waiting for
[ 1 ] Shared Objects that still are not live
BernalIndMedium01Federation 0x00000000c06a3d00 State=AwaitingReadyToGoLive
Carrying on bravely in the hope that nothing breaks

{13:15:30} Type6_0x000004e652e7c085 Attempting to spawn docked but pad not in correct state, poking it

{13:16:48} Dock Permission Received on pad 32
{13:16:49} We (Type7_0x000004e652e7c045) own pad 32 but it's state disagrees, remind it

Ah, developers