So I place this here, as it's a suggestion and nothing else.
This has been talked/discussed in general forum to death, however I would like to pinpoint the issue in a different way.
This is a game about flying you spaceship in a wast galaxy, correct? with the game mechanics we do have now, we can do just that by selecting a route in the galaxy map, and then it will calculate the route we need to take. There are several tools/filters in the galaxy map we can use to make this as easy as possible. That is why it's interresting to find and plot a course in the galaxy map. Not because it a tedious task, but because it make sense why and how we do it.
Flying the ship in star to star jump is a tedious task, point to the target, hit (J) and wait 20 sec, point to star raise and repeat.
My suggestion as suggested many times before (and without any response from FDEV if this is a desirable feature or not) is to make this task automated, only by choice. It could be by hiring a navigator, buying a module, or whatever makes the reward/expenses in the game balance the feature.
Hiring a NPC crew navigator would require you to pay them a salary, if it's a moule it would take up space and add weight to your ship.
When I play flight simulators, even in MP we use the autopilot a lot, not because we don't want to fly the plane, but because flying from London to Dubai in real time is a long time just sitting there and make small adjustments. The time is spent on checking the weather, monitoring the airplane, or just chitchatting on the radio with other players. Sure you can watch netflix but that is also possible with out using the AP. In ED it will take away a "grinding" mechanic, something we surly need to remove from the game as much as possible don't you agree?
For those interested you can watch these two videos, and if you manage to see it all, you probably would know what I'm referring too.
[video=youtube;FThGAb11l8o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThGAb11l8o[/video][video=youtube;hF-AgOygOPQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-AgOygOPQ[/video]
This has been talked/discussed in general forum to death, however I would like to pinpoint the issue in a different way.
This is a game about flying you spaceship in a wast galaxy, correct? with the game mechanics we do have now, we can do just that by selecting a route in the galaxy map, and then it will calculate the route we need to take. There are several tools/filters in the galaxy map we can use to make this as easy as possible. That is why it's interresting to find and plot a course in the galaxy map. Not because it a tedious task, but because it make sense why and how we do it.
Flying the ship in star to star jump is a tedious task, point to the target, hit (J) and wait 20 sec, point to star raise and repeat.
My suggestion as suggested many times before (and without any response from FDEV if this is a desirable feature or not) is to make this task automated, only by choice. It could be by hiring a navigator, buying a module, or whatever makes the reward/expenses in the game balance the feature.
Hiring a NPC crew navigator would require you to pay them a salary, if it's a moule it would take up space and add weight to your ship.
When I play flight simulators, even in MP we use the autopilot a lot, not because we don't want to fly the plane, but because flying from London to Dubai in real time is a long time just sitting there and make small adjustments. The time is spent on checking the weather, monitoring the airplane, or just chitchatting on the radio with other players. Sure you can watch netflix but that is also possible with out using the AP. In ED it will take away a "grinding" mechanic, something we surly need to remove from the game as much as possible don't you agree?
For those interested you can watch these two videos, and if you manage to see it all, you probably would know what I'm referring too.
[video=youtube;FThGAb11l8o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThGAb11l8o[/video][video=youtube;hF-AgOygOPQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-AgOygOPQ[/video]