Surface target markers or beacons

[Yanick]

Dear Frontier,

During the ongoing Mercury 7 Expedition: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...dition-A-tribute-to-Americas-First-Astronauts
we've been thinking that for group meet ups, it would be massively helpful for there to be a way for CMDRs to be able to easily find their way to surface co-ordinates, without needing another ship there to wing them in. So the easiest way to achieve this would be, a CMDR being able to input planetary co-ordinates into the ships navigation system, and then a target marker would then appear, and the pilot could fly down to it. Alternatively there could be a beacon that could be set up at the planetary co-ordinates, but that expires a certain time after it has been deployed (say a month).

In the spirit of exploration, and co-operation.

CMDR Yanick
Organiser Mercury 7 Expedition

 

[Emil_]

Would definitely be very helpful

CMDR bimse
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[Deathbane]

Would be good. Whilst its certainly doable to use simple compass to get close, having a more accurate and easy to use system would be great.

It seems to be counter intuitive in 3303 to be reliant purely on a compass.

 

[abish]

Wow. Yes. This would be soooo helpful. Custom planetary bookmarks as well, being able to mark any co-ordinates on a planet, not just those where something is.

 

[Smudge.]

quality idea, if the planetary stations are all marked why can't we place our own boookmarks and private group/expedition bookmarks on planets too. Also maybe diffent classifaction of bookmarks to map geyser and alien find locations within a set private group.

 

[cheesenbiscuits]

There's a lot they could do to improve the bookmark system,for now i'd be happy to be able to tap in the coordinates.
It's not clear if FD consider the current method as valuable game play(manually navigate to the bookmark)so maybe a stipulation that you must fly to the bookmark at least once would be a compromise i could live with.

 

[Vegassimus]

I support fully the request. Possibility to enter planetary coordinates into navigation and to create planetary bookmarks would be a huge improvement for meetings or POI's visits (ruins, geysers, etc.) in ED.

 

[Canthor]

Yes! Finally a great idea I was wondering why not put into the game already by FDEV. Love the beacon, love the "enter coordinates and go for it" ideas. Here is another: fire a recon missle/drone into orbit to get hints on interesting locations on a planet (using a beacon like effect or similar).

 

[Andrew Linton]

This would be a valuable feature and those of us who prefer the 'old school' compass-based navigation, seeing that technique as part of the fun, wouldn't have to use the bookmarks anyway.

 

[Mad-Max]

Hear hear! Good suggestion

 

[Deamawa]

Wud this mostly welcome. Have to abort again an Expeditions because I am not able to find these ing coordinates. Ok call me stupid. But I am not alone.[smile]

 

[Grumtastic]

I actually suggested this (briefly) to Michael Brookes last year at LaveCon.

However I have since been thinking that inputting numbers of any kind can be a bit clunky and prone to error, so maybe a graphical method of placing a marker on the surface in the planetary system map (in the same way that we target our destination) would be better (even if it would be more general).

The ability to send a favourite or group of favourites to a fellow commander in game, as part of a message, like "Meet me [here] tomorrow at noon" or "We have to search [these] locations, we can meet up [here] after to consolidate".

And the option to favourite a current location marker from the cockpit, would also make sense and ties in well with the above and also existing systems.



Planetary locations could be stored as:

Galaxy [x/y/z]; System body [AB1b]; atlas [long/lat]

 

[IiliI PEL IiliI]

+1 deffo a welcomed idea!! Another way to do this would be to open up the system map and when rotating the planet, have the coords show up on that screen and then be able to place our own marker so we can home in on that!!

Bookmarking seriously needs some personalised attention.

 

[Deamawa]

I actually suggested this (briefly) to Michael Brookes last year at LaveCon.

However I have since been thinking that inputting numbers of any kind can be a bit clunky and prone to error, so maybe a graphical method of placing a marker on the surface in the planetary system map (in the same way that we target our destination) would be better (even if it would be more general).

The ability to send a favourite or group of favourites to a fellow commander in game, as part of a message, like "Meet me [here] tomorrow at noon" or "We have to search [these] locations, we can meet up [here] after to consolidate".

And the option to favourite a current location marker from the cockpit, would also make sense and ties in well with the above and also existing systems.



Planetary locations could be stored as:

Galaxy [x/y/z]; System body [AB1b]; atlas [long/lat]

Very good. Any method will be mostly welcome.