How to find cities on maps?

[J]

I recently visited a city that looked cowboy themed but forgot where it was. How does one find major cities and navigate through the maps/starmaps that the game provides? I only know where new atlantis but not anything else. It's honestly kind of annoying

[Tenoshii]

There's an icon that is displayed above systems and planets that have a city on them. Looks sorta like a bunker.

[Barrier]

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

There's an icon that is displayed above systems and planets that have a city on them. Looks sorta like a bunker.

This!
It's a weird bunker like icon.

But what you can also do is use steam overlay to write notes, write the name of the system and the planet when you land on it. You can even pin the note to the screen.

[Sprocket]

Originally posted by Jej:

I recently visited a city that looked cowboy themed but forgot where it was. How does one find major cities and navigate through the maps/starmaps that the game provides? I only know where new atlantis but not anything else. It's honestly kind of annoying

The symbol as others have mentioned - but the one u are specifically asking about is the system Cheyenne, and the city Akila.

[Ubik Valis]

Originally posted by Barrier:

But what you can also do is use steam overlay to write notes, write the name of the system and the planet when you land on it. You can even pin the note to the screen.

Does that mean that the game doesn't allow for more than one single custom map-marker like in Fallout 4?

Also, I've never heard of using the steam overlay to make notes. Are they automatically saved and so on?

[Barrier]

Originally posted by Ubik Valis:

Originally posted by Barrier:

But what you can also do is use steam overlay to write notes, write the name of the system and the planet when you land on it. You can even pin the note to the screen.

Does that mean that the game doesn't allow for more than one single custom map-marker like in Fallout 4?

Also, I've never heard of using the steam overlay to make notes. Are they automatically saved and so on?

I don't think you can have multiple markers.

For notes, just try it ingame next time.
open the steam overlay
at the bottom of the screen you have a pencil icon. click it.
you can write whatever you want, pin it to the screen and it will stay on after you close the overlay
and yes it saves the notes, so they will be there after you restart the game.
I have multiple notes, one is for the ammo types I need, the other for resources and then one for locations.

It's really helpful because the Ui is kinda bad.

[Zy Soua]

The city you visited most likely was Akila city in the Cheyenne system on the planet Akila

[Ubik Valis]

Originally posted by Barrier:

Originally posted by Ubik Valis:

Does that mean that the game doesn't allow for more than one single custom map-marker like in Fallout 4?

Also, I've never heard of using the steam overlay to make notes. Are they automatically saved and so on?

I don't think you can have multiple markers.

For notes, just try it ingame next time.
open the steam overlay
at the bottom of the screen you have a pencil icon. click it.
you can write whatever you want, pin it to the screen and it will stay on after you close the overlay
and yes it saves the notes, so they will be there after you restart the game.
I have multiple notes, one is for the ammo types I need, the other for resources and then one for locations.

It's really helpful because the Ui is kinda bad.

Never occurred to me, so you kinda blew my mind there.

Thanks!