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REQUEST: simple-- system search, lay in course outside area

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Very, very, very basic play/usability request:

Basics:
If I'm in say the P'jemm system, let me pull up the Map, search for DS9, and let my automated helmsman lay in a course to DS9, rather than just the neighboring sector and local systems/locations.

Game balance:
This is completely game balanced if it happens, and does not reward AFK play--you can still get pulled into NPC ambush events; you still have to actually click accept warp from sector to sector, to approach the target system, and dock/beam down.

Mechanical benefits:
Sometimes you really just want to go way over there. It's silly to have to search/click on the next system each time.

Canon/lore/RP/Trek benefits:
My ship's computer and helm I should hope can read a map more than a couple dozen light years out, considering they're already between them driving a million ton space ship and managing complex anti-matter reactions in our fancy combustion engine without ripping a hole in space/time.

Future:
In the future, if it could be expanded to a clickable map, even better, but baby steps.

(Yes, I'm basing this request on the 'auto-pilot' function in EVE Online.)
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    And the auto-pilot is stupid in EVE too. No one uses it because there is no point in doing so.

    -1 for this idea from me. If I wanted to be able to go away from the computer and have the game pilot my ship for me, I'd have picked a different game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MILLANDSON wrote:
    And the auto-pilot is stupid in EVE too. No one uses it because there is no point in doing so.

    -1 for this idea from me. If I wanted to be able to go away from the computer and have the game pilot my ship for me, I'd have picked a different game.

    And some people will like it, since it's non-game breaking and a great simple convenience.
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