Route Planning

[Araon]

Maybe it's explained somewhere in the log but I can't figure out how exactly the route planner works. I understand that I can look at a general overview of what a location might contain and I choose where to go, but I'm not sure of the rules where I can and cannot go as a lot of the time I can't seem to select a specific location to go to. Is it that I can't re-visit locations unless it's on the way to another location, or is it just random which locations are accessable?

[Dubmaster]

you can choose 3 locations, and if it marked with Unknown conditions, you can scan it and choose another one if you dont want to go there. Also as i understood you can pick longer trips with 5-7 zones and the zones that are marked by you will be available for gate open.

[Nova225]

The route planner uses the antenna to scan a specific location and tell you what resources and anomalies it has.

When you actually drive out, you'll notice you can pick a different route than the one you picked on the planner, but you'll have no idea what the resources are like until you actually get there.

To go to a farther away area you need to use junctions, which means going through multiple zones.

[Techbane #FreeHK]

If you hover over a junction in the planner and it says "no stable exits" where it usually lists the kLIM requirement for warp, that means there's no way to continue a trip from that junction and you'll have to warp back. It also means the trip planner won't allow you to scan that junction, although you can still scan a connected junction past that one to reveal its details.

And yes, this shuffles every time you go out on a run, so sometimes to get where you want to go you have to just make a quick outing elsewhere and warp back.

[lyravega]

Only the junctions with a stable exit may be scanned. On each run they're randomized, so a junction that you could/couldn't scan may become stable/unstable on the next run.

Any junction leading up to that destination will be scanned; always pick the destination you've yet to visit or the farthest to scan most of the map. You don't need to reach to the destination you've picked, you may open a gateway from any junction with a stable exit as long as you have enough kLIM to do so. This is denoted by the number in the blue circles. You don't need to reach your destinations so to speak.

Route planner is a bit misleading / mislabeled in this case in my opinion. You don't pick destinations you'd like to visit, but rather scan junctions with a stable exit. All of the junctions leading there will also be scanned as mentioned above. However, you may visit any junction leading deeper into the zone, even those with dead ends. Dead end junctions will literally be a one-way trip though (unless you're really lucky and find a stabilizer).

[Araon]

Thanks for all the responses, really insightful, see you in the zone :D

[daggaz]

In the players tab screen menus, theres a route map. In this tab, it says to hold left mouse button in to select a route. Except you cannot select a route here. Took me twenty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ minutes to remember there's a big map on the wall and I have to use the oscilloscope junk hooked up to it to activate it.

What's the point of this tab screen? Overly redundant, detracts from in-game elements (both the garage and your car have a map device), and pretends to have functionality when it does not. New player trap.