What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Darr Valen]

Would it be smart to break the trip down into parts? I was going to try and plot a route using bookmarks, and 1,000 LY sections. That is, break the trip into 22 parts. I'm not worried about scooping, since the star density only gets better as I go along. I figure I'd line up in the map, and just bookmark a target system every 1000 lightyears.

If this isn't the smartest way, advice is appreciated. I figure this would make the trip more manageable, and give mini-goals to shoot for.

Breaking the trip into 1000 LY chunks is smart, doing this using bookmarks has room for improvement. There are two main alternatives: A convoy is leaving for Jaques this Sunday at 1900 Game Time. They already have a route planned, will have fuel rats in attendance, etc. Details can be found in this thread on the FDev forums.

If you want to go solo, my recommendation is to get an EDSM account, install ED Discovery, link the two, and use the route plotter of ED Discovery with a jump range of 1000 LY to get your intermediate stops. You will have to fiddle with the routing settings if any of the star names shows up as "WAYPOINT" because that means that EDSM does not have a target star near those coordinates.

I used this method after the waypoints from the original rescue missions ended about 10 kly short of Jaques, and not only made it there, but also managed to find Sag A* and my way home. 628 LY to Azrael

With trying to buy a house, pack, and move.. I just can't commit to a convoy. I have EDD installed, but it was acting up the other day. Now it's finally acknowledging I have an account, again.

Hmm.. I have my Max Jump set to 17.01, my max range laden, and routing metric to nearest to waypoint. You said that I would need to fiddle with settings. Which ones? I have an excessive amount of waypoint listings in the 1293 jumps on my list.

Routing from Shinrarta Dezhra to EOL PROU RS-T D3-94 for reference.

I think if it's 1300ish jumps, I'll try and get 130 jumps per day, only doing scanning when I need to scoop.

For right now, it's time to close the game, setup my outdoor burner, and deep fry some unhealthy fried chicken!

[Pembroke]

I am slowly puttering to Jaque's, roughly 2l LY from my home in Altair. It would be a lie to say I am not excited about this, even if I have been in this area before, the idea of seeing a station out here is just bloody awesome.

[Cometborne]

Hmm.. I have my Max Jump set to 17.01, my max range laden, and routing metric to nearest to waypoint. You said that I would need to fiddle with settings. Which ones? I have an excessive amount of waypoint listings in the 1293 jumps on my list.

Routing from Shinrarta Dezhra to EOL PROU RS-T D3-94 for reference.

I think if it's 1300ish jumps, I'll try and get 130 jumps per day, only doing scanning when I need to scoop.

Using the route plotter of ED Discovery to do all plotting usually does not work because there are too few stars in. For the route from Shinrata to Jaques, just set the jump range to 1000 LY, and the system will give you a list of 23 waypoints. Copy that to a text file, and then use in the in-game plotter to work from WP to WP.

[Darr Valen]

Hmm.. I have my Max Jump set to 17.01, my max range laden, and routing metric to nearest to waypoint. You said that I would need to fiddle with settings. Which ones? I have an excessive amount of waypoint listings in the 1293 jumps on my list.

Routing from Shinrarta Dezhra to EOL PROU RS-T D3-94 for reference.

I think if it's 1300ish jumps, I'll try and get 130 jumps per day, only doing scanning when I need to scoop.

Using the route plotter of ED Discovery to do all plotting usually does not work because there are too few stars in. For the route from Shinrata to Jaques, just set the jump range to 1000 LY, and the system will give you a list of 23 waypoints. Copy that to a text file, and then use in the in-game plotter to work from WP to WP.

Ah, I see what you're doing with the Max Jump. I had an idea that's how you worked around the jumps. Using each of the 23 as my sub-waypoints will make plotting much easier.

Subplotting that took me to an 86 jump hop, with only 1 waypoint error in that.

Have my main jump list open in Sublime, and my sub-group jumps ready to ready in Notepad++. Gotta love tertiary and quaternary monitor setups. I am obviously ready to get out into the 'verse and space truck..

But first I am going to bed.


Many thanks again for all the info!

[Cometborne]

Spent the last 2.5 hours selling the exploration data from my Jaques trip. Managed to level up with Martuuk from grade 3 to grade 5, got from 48% Ranger to 24% Pioneer, got information about two more engineers ...

... and had to fill in ten crash reports. Seems looking at your RNGineer unlock level after selling exploration data with first discovery bonus is a guarantee for a crash.

[Falcon_D]

The best UA collection system has just a central star, actually. Aries Dark Region GW-W D1-52. Jump in, fly 100 LS into the system, and then circle the star at 100 LS-200 LS distance at 25% throttle. I got USS within 5-10 minutes.

Thanks. Will check it out. Been scanning systems for the last 3hrs. Managed to find 1 system which produced 1 UA.

Have fun, fly safe. o7

[Darr Valen]

Doing my final checklist. I think I've remembered everything. Going to load up on power generators, and plot my route to IC 1287 DR-L A8-2.

Bookmarked, checked star density, and made sure there were no errors visible between the major bookmark hops. Re-routing the Clooku KZ-V a65-0 leg fixed the only issue.

Now, time to leave I think. 1300 jumps until Jaques, 2600+ until home to collect the credit. Not sightseeing on this first trip. The nebulae can wait for another trip.

[Pembroke]

Happy to say I am making pretty good progress towards Jaque's. My route is... a LITTLE bendy, but mainly because I had a few locations I wanted to investigate. at roughly 3k LY out, I think I am making reasonable progress.

[Darr Valen]

I would be much closer to Jaque if I didn't keep having to detour to find a FOG KBAM star to scoop. It's almost as if the game is purposely not plotting them.. I mean, it's ridiculous. Stars right beside each other, keeps choosing the non-scoopables..

Glad I took that extra fuel tank. Wish I brought my hangar though, since overheating at stars really sucks.

20k or less to Jaque.

[Trinity Star]

30m now contributed to the BH CG.