New to game, planet map?

[AstroCat]

Just got the game with the Next reviews being positive. Is there no way to get a top view map of a planet you are on. Or a list of places you've discovered or anything? Any way to get back to a place you previously found? Thanks.

[[OWB] McGrandpa [AGHL]]

Yup. Navigational Beacon is permanent. IT will stay there and bug you to no end cause you will see that in the sky no matter what planet you are on. OR, as you suggest, build a little base with that base computer. You will always be able to teleport to any of your bases from any space station with a teleporter. Even if you dont have a teleporter in any of your bases. It becomes a fast way back to the house (choose any one!) from whatever space station you are in. You AND your ship and all your goodies. That made the game a little more interesting for me. Like has been said; there is a whole Galaxy to explore! And I ain't particularly happy with the little solar system I woke up in. I am liking my little ship though.

SO will someone be so kind as to explain how to switch between all these multi-tools? IT said "your collection" so the old ones got to be in my N space somewhere right?

[tkwoods]

Xenomorph님이 먼저 게시:

I've been playing NMS on and off since release, and i can tell you that the lack of a map was one of the things everyone was talking about back then. However, over the years, i learned that it's really not necessary at all. We have the original means and others that didn't exist back then to mark places of interest.
Heck, if marking a spot you will be going back to so often is that important (i know i needed to years ago when i was poor and there was just multitool mining), build a shack with a solar panel, battery and a teleport or something like that nearby.

Now there is a true gamer thinking outside the box. That is exactly what I do for important areas. Even though I seldom stay in one place very long.

This is an exploration game after all. Telling a developer they need to change there exploration game into a stay local and not explore game is sort of... ( can't say it ) Be nice, Be respectful...

[Kaffeeteria]

I don't need a map but I think it would be nice if we could set up markers for awesome builds which could be visible from space.

[Kaffeeteria]

OWB McGrandpa AGHL님이 먼저 게시:

SO will someone be so kind as to explain how to switch between all these multi-tools? IT said "your collection" so the old ones got to be in my N space somewhere right?

You can "summon" your multi-tool in the same menu as your ships.

[Chika Ogiue]

If finding an exact spot again is absolute must for you, the most reliable way to do it is to grab pen and paper. Write down the coordinates that are displayed when you scan your surroundings.

That's the method I use since losing several ships due to in game solutions randomly vanishing.

[Kalitse]

IMO, Cartography has been instrumental throughout the history of human exploration. In a game that has such a heavy emphasis on exploring, I find it hard to swallow there isn't a planetary, and galactic mapping system. They could even force us to go get a new NPC for your base called a Cartographer - we get the other dudes to help out, shouldn't be hard to add another.

[Varagonax]

EASY AstroCat님이 먼저 게시:

Just got the game with the Next reviews being positive. Is there no way to get a top view map of a planet you are on. Or a list of places you've discovered or anything? Any way to get back to a place you previously found? Thanks.

If you want to map out a system your best bet is to do it manually, yourself, which is sort of something you can do by creating a bunch of outposts you can travel to, each with a distinct name so you can go into orbit and see them from space.

But, otherwise, there isnt a proper planetary map. Its not really a feasible thing to do, really, since each and every planet was procedurally generated and there are literally quintillions of planets. 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets, if Hello Games are to be trusted.
edit: Totally forgot about beacons, which are cheaper then building bases every which where.

[Masque]

Some day, someone will mod a mapping feature. That's my prediction.

But it won't be Hello Games. And it won't be soon.

[Happy Monkey]

I wish you could click on a waypoint discovery to toggle a waypoint on the HUD. If that were implemented, I wouldn't see the need for a map.

[Mr. Millstone]

I've got multiple games with 1k+ hours, but not having a map is a deal breaker for me (7 hours in).

[Mr. Bufferlow]

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Shepherd님이 먼저 게시:

I've got multiple games with 1k+ hours, but not having a map is a deal breaker for me (7 hours in).

another necro

It will likely be de-commissioned soon enough.

For OP, planet mapping is a problem on several levels.
The question becomes how much detail would it show and how long would it be retained. The more detail the larger your save file gets. This is important because playstations can only support a 100 G file. I checked my recent save on PC and it is already a 68 G. That does not leave a lot of room for storing maps. I did not check other formats but I am guessing each system has file size limits of some kind.

If you play for any length of time, you will discover hundreds of planets and each would now need a map. So, that means the maps have to be scarce on details...maybe only the last ten spots you have been to shown as very primitive icon points. They would still need to go away pretty quickly or your save file would exceed the maximum.

I am guessing HG looked at doing it and decided there were no good trade-offs that made it a viable go.

[Asmosis]

It'd actually be really cool if you could build a device that did that "massive zoom out" thing from scanners on command.

NMS doesn't need maps, it just needs a zoom :)

It might even be possible to mod this.

[davidb11]

Mr. Bufferlow님이 먼저 게시:

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another necro

It will likely be de-commissioned soon enough.

For OP, planet mapping is a problem on several levels.
The question becomes how much detail would it show and how long would it be retained. The more detail the larger your save file gets. This is important because playstations can only support a 100 G file. I checked my recent save on PC and it is already a 68 G. That does not leave a lot of room for storing maps. I did not check other formats but I am guessing each system has file size limits of some kind.

If you play for any length of time, you will discover hundreds of planets and each would now need a map. So, that means the maps have to be scarce on details...maybe only the last ten spots you have been to shown as very primitive icon points. They would still need to go away pretty quickly or your save file would exceed the maximum.

I am guessing HG looked at doing it and decided there were no good trade-offs that made it a viable go.

How do you have a save file over 68 GB?
THat doesn't make any sense.
THis game literally will never save that much data onto a person's computer.
Not until they've visited something along the lines of a few trillion planets.
Also, there was a huge issue years ago in this game where it wouldn't save properly if the save game went over 5 GB.
So, how the heck did you get to 68GB?!

Even Minecraft would take forever to reach 68GB for a world!

[Happy Monkey]

Asmosis님이 먼저 게시:

It'd actually be really cool if you could build a device that did that "massive zoom out" thing from scanners on command.

That would be nice.

Also, it would be cool if clicking a waypoint saved on the discoveries page would make a destination waypoint on the HUD for that location.

[Voodoojedizin]

I have played a lot of hours in this game, and I never needed a map.
The discovery tab shows all the resources, fauna and flora that you have found so if you need to go back to a particular planet just look at it.
As far as a map goes for each individual planet, why would you need one just put down a beacon. The scanner shows you where everything is in your area. Also a map would completely take away from the idea of exploring, which is what the game is all about.