Reverse galactic hyperdrive

[Evil Juice]

Why we can't have reverse galactic jumping? What about a reverse galactic hypedrive (could cost 5 times the normal one, just find a technobabble justification), speaking of reverse, retrorockets could be a nice addition, i remember 'em on amiga elite.

[gus3]

Retro-rokets were pointless IMHO. Now we have witchspace fuel injectors they are even more redundant, just flip over 180 degrees and 'afterburn' your way out of there, while getting off a few parting shots

[Evil Juice]

Yeah, it's exactly the same thing...

[TGHC]

Why we can't have reverse galactic jumping? What about a reverse galactic hypedrive (could cost 5 times the normal one, just find a technobabble justification)

Or possibly being able to select which galaxy to jump to, although it is moving away a bit from tradition, but as Oolite develops it could be worth considering.

I'm currently on a mission which requires me to go to a detached constellation, so the only way to get there is to Galactic Hyperspace into it, but to get there in the first place means jumping through all 8 galaxies first. The tricky bit will then be selecting the right location to jump from to get to the detached constellation, if I miss it's all the way round again!!!!

So on that note, request to Aegidian how about showing the planet/system coordinates on the galaxy map when you make a selection

[aegidian]

[I'm currently on a mission which requires me to go to a detached constellation, so the only way to get there is to Galactic Hyperspace into it, but to get there in the first place means jumping through all 8 galaxies first. The tricky bit will then be selecting the right location to jump from to get to the detached constellation, if I miss it's all the way round again!!!!

So on that note, request to Aegidian how about showing the planet/system coordinates on the galaxy map when you make a selection

Ah drat!

There's a problem there - I've jiggered the Galactic Hyperspace routines so they won't take the ship to a detached constellation.

I could change that I suppose.

[TGHC]

The only system that is a problem is Oresrati (tech 5) in the bottom LH corner of Galaxy 8 which is a dead end. So the rule is never Galactic Hyperspace from Rainza in Galaxy 7, otherwise it really is the end of the universe. All other detached constellations can be hyperspaced out of.

I'm on the Thargoid plans mission to get that special piece of equipment, is there any other way then of getting to the location other than Galactic hyperspacing?