OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

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Re: OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

Post by Commander McLane »

Still, the request is a sensible one. You would expect the ship's computer to be able to plan (and save) a route.
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Re: OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

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Commander McLane wrote:
Still, the request is a sensible one. You would expect the ship's computer to be able to plan (and save) a route.
Seconded. It does seem an odd omission and would be very useful.
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Re: OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

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...Especially considering the cost of the ship add-on to see routes. :(
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Re: OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

Post by Ganelon »

Well, there's the "poor boy" solution of printing out a chart for the section of space you're in and marking it up to plan routes and remind yourself of good routes you've found. I keep a clipboard hanging nearby with a bunch of hardcopy charts on it as well as other things like stats on some ships and of course the "Oolite Reference sheets" (though I don't fill out the log sheets. :wink:).

I've thought that what might be nice is a little binder and laminate the star chart for the sections you travel a lot in, so dry erase markers could be used to mark routes. But hey, a paper chart of the Teonan Web or the Courts of Chaos covered with one's notes and assorted cryptic scribbles just feels right to me somehow. LOL
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Re: OXP Suggestion: Galactic route planner

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Jorge van den Poem wrote:
I would like to be able to save the route wich the ANA calculated. Say I calculated a route fram A to B for instance over a length of 25 jumps it would be very nice to save that particular route so that I would be able to click to the next planet when docked. I find it time consuming to always have to recalculate the same route :( WE are working with computers so it would not be so difficult to save some things wich are already there? this is something I would appreciate very much!
We have the Flight Log OXP... Maybe something similar that dumps you the route like Zaonce-Lave-sth else-.... etc. like the Flight Log does?
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