We still can't input Coordinates for planet surfaces. Why?
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I never knew about EDBearing. Iv bookmarked the page & will give it a go later.
Unfortunately I'm not a skilled RAF pilot in real life, so I find landing at particular co-ordinates a bit of trial & error. Sometimes I'm close....most times I'm not.
I spend too much time in normal space hitting the boost button to finally get there (I think!), because the orange colour that shows the tiny co-ord's aren't good enough to see in the enviornment that you're in.
Maybe it shows up better on a 200" Plasma screen TV, but not on my 15" Laptop screen unless my eyes are 1" from the screen, sadly then I lose focus so can't see it anyway!
FD should consider those with less perfect eyesight on their screen displays, it has been said many times before that players shouldn't need to be going into the game files to alter the colours of the screen, to make them easier to read.
I certainly think that part of the player's flight plan should be entering the final destination's co-ordinates if necessary.
Whilst with practice (I found it hard at first) finding a surface co-ordinate is pretty straight forward it is sort of a faff and more time consuming than it needs to be...
I always just assumed that (as with anything mining/exploration) navigating to Surface Co-ordinates isn't necessary to either blow up ships, or over-engineer a super-powerful all special-effect Corvette, so wasn't a priority!
I always just assumed that (as with anything mining/exploration) navigating to Surface Co-ordinates isn't necessary to either blow up ships, or over-engineer a super-powerful all special-effect Corvette, so wasn't a priority!
Not sure this'll work (Gogle images)...
https://i.imgur.com/RyJHWNe.jpg
Also, once found it is saved in the ships computer.
Also, (probably pointless request I know), but any chance of getting an official response to why Fdev won't implement this, surely it can't be considered (like the docking request feature), gameplay.
No idea what your point is relating to what I posted?
@OP - Sorry that you have trouble finding co-ords on planets, and worse not being able to read the co-ordinate numbers on screen coz they're so small. I just wondered (can't check right now...) but if you look down (default is key 3) as if you want to access the SRV, does that increase the size of the numbers at all?
And yes, I too think it's strange - to put it politely - that in the 34th Century we have lost our planetary navigation abilities (although, strictly speaking, we only have such things available on Earth because of all the satellites we've stuck up there) .
If it's helpful, here's a link to my paper+pencil way forum post...
o7
PS: How Lat Long works, illustrated...
And yes, I too think it's strange - to put it politely - that in the 34th Century we have lost our planetary navigation abilities (although, strictly speaking, we only have such things available on Earth because of all the satellites we've stuck up there) .
If it's helpful, here's a link to my paper+pencil way forum post...
o7
PS: How Lat Long works, illustrated...
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Thats the thing. I dont think he has actually played the game from the start on the live servers. He probably only uses the fd servers and dev magic to do what he wants to see.
I really think the head honchos at fd have to play the game from the start on the live servers no dev magic and experience it as we play the game.
Just my thoughts.
Again I don't believe it's disregard, I truly think they just don't realize how incredibly useful it would be. Which only goes to support the notion that the devs don't play the game like the players do. They probably have a development cheat they can enable which already does this, LOL.
We really need surface way points and bookmarks in ED.
Any reaction from FDev maybe?
My main issues atm arise due to the fact that you can't stop in supercruise to adjust your course, and and small planets you can overfly your target quite quickly. Then with some ships it takes ages to turn at low speeds. When you fly with coordinates, you have to try to somehow keep a good constant hight, because as soon as you enter glide, there is no quick way back.. and usually if you do that unintentionally, you directly get the "glide aborted - too shallow" error, because the game doesnt give you even 2 seconds to adjust the glide angle.
Just annoying, and simple markers that you could put on the coordinates you want would solve all of this...
My main issues atm arise due to the fact that you can't stop in supercruise to adjust your course, and and small planets you can overfly your target quite quickly. Then with some ships it takes ages to turn at low speeds. When you fly with coordinates, you have to try to somehow keep a good constant hight, because as soon as you enter glide, there is no quick way back.. and usually if you do that unintentionally, you directly get the "glide aborted - too shallow" error, because the game doesnt give you even 2 seconds to adjust the glide angle.
Just annoying, and simple markers that you could put on the coordinates you want would solve all of this...
I think this is a case of the devs not playing their own game enough. Being able to share easy to find coordinates with fellow commanders is critical to creating things like rally points, share info about persistent POIs, share beautiful or scientifically interesting locales, create meet up points or finishing lines for SRV races, etc, etc.
I've lost count of the number of times I've been frustrated by how hard it is to locate places on planets. Currently we have to wing up and cycle people through the wing in order to get people to the same location on a planet in a reasonable amount of time. Once I was off on landing by 0.2 degrees on a large planet, and it took me nearly 30 min of perma boosting to reach the rally point. Frustrating.
I've lost count of the number of times I've been frustrated by how hard it is to locate places on planets. Currently we have to wing up and cycle people through the wing in order to get people to the same location on a planet in a reasonable amount of time. Once I was off on landing by 0.2 degrees on a large planet, and it took me nearly 30 min of perma boosting to reach the rally point. Frustrating.
Hey there,
I wrote a tool that helps you to navigate to surface coordinates.
http://edcodex.info/?m=tools&entry=431
It dispays a HUD element which shows you in what direction you need to go, to reach your waypoint. (Also has speech output.)
I wrote a tool that helps you to navigate to surface coordinates.
http://edcodex.info/?m=tools&entry=431
It dispays a HUD element which shows you in what direction you need to go, to reach your waypoint. (Also has speech output.)
Maybe you should have paid more attention in Geography class... Latitude and Longitude anyone?
Because we're actually in Hell (the Bad Place), this is Hell only its torture with a dash of sophistication
As a sailor knowing which heading to fly when your currently at -42,111 (or x,y figures just for representation) is child's play though, no need for tools when your own noodle can work that out.
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^this!
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Haven't tried this, but I will once I get back from work!
Awesome idea btw, GJ CMDR!
Captain's Log, and ED Discovery have workarounds.
No excuse for Frontier, though.
Doing it from age 4. Still does not excuse Frontier.
No excuse for Frontier, though.
Doing it from age 4. Still does not excuse Frontier.