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Auto Pilot directly to planet/destination in a system

rekurzionrekurzion Member Posts: 697 Arc User
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Maybe I'm late to that party on this one. Playing a mission and use auto pilot to bring me to a system to begin a mission - only cryptic missions have this functionality. But once I got to the system, still not in range to begin because I'm not close enough to the star, I decided to click the auto pilot again and lo and behold it auto navigates directly to the planet within in range of getting the mission popup.

Can this be done widespread? Say for example I'm in sector space somewhere and I click on a destination from the map which then functions like a mission objective starting point with a task window with the auto nav button. That way when we arrive the system we can click the auto pilot button again and fly to the planet. Would work really well if you opened other planets in a system you could have a choice of which planet to fly to.

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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    It would mean They would have to pretty much go in and hand-code every single destination on the maps.
    TacoFang told us back when the new universe map came out, that They decided it would have been too cost/time prohibitive to have done so.
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  • rekurzionrekurzion Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    daveyny wrote: »
    It would mean They would have to pretty much go in and hand-code every single destination on the maps.
    TacoFang told us back when the new universe map came out, that They decided it would have been too cost/time prohibitive to have done so.
    <shrug>

    OK. I remember discussion about it and it being to expensive code wise, which made sense at the time. But then I ran into this functionality and thought - well, they must be half way there already.

    oh well.
  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    Auto Pilot is broken on use of Q-slipstream drive. I'd like to see that fixed first, then get the AP working properly.
    -Makbure
  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot
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    Or, we could simply do it the old fashioned way. "Give me a tall ship and a star to steer her by." I sometimes think there is a little too much "just click once" in this game. There are times I feel llike I am playing Farmville In Space
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  • dabelgravedabelgrave Member Posts: 979 Arc User
    It can be setup to use keybinds/chatbar commands with aliases, but it would take a lot of effort to collect the /loc coordinates for every system or planet. It's how I was able to keybind Tour the Galaxy: http://bit.ly/STOTourTheGalaxy.​​
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  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    You know what else I'd like to see is an option to warp on contact for edge of sector space (transition to next space).
    -Makbure
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