Useless Galaxy Map "Custom Waypoint?"

[Elryck]

Hi! Is anyone else finding the "Custom" way point function less than useful? The lit path for a custom way point just keeps jumping me 4-6 systems, endlessly without showing me the destination point. What am I missing? Thanks!

[Grimmslayer73]

Your not missing anything. It's only useful if the waypoint is close by. If the waypoint is across the galaxy or more than 2 to 3k light years you can't see it.

[Elryck]

Got it! Thanks!

[Elryck]

If I follow the Blue "Custom" path long enough, I should eventually get to the marked system?

[Elryck]

I just realized it may be a system at the other end of my first portal jump!

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Elryck:

If I follow the Blue "Custom" path long enough, I should eventually get to the marked system?

You will, but depending on how far away it is, it could take hours, days, or months; and who knows how many warp cells.
If you are using keyboard/mouse - you can right-click to unlock the map position, then use 'w-a-s-d' controls to move through the map.
I would follow the blue line as far as you can (it eventually fades out the farther away you go) to see if you can see the end point.
if you just keep going and going and going, it may not be worth the while.
Out of curiosity - what is your custom waypoint? It could be that it was set wrong by a weird mission bug or something as well. Or that you jumped a long ways before it was set, etc.

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Elryck:

I just realized it may be a system at the other end of my first portal jump!

LOL - ok then. probably not a good idea to chase it down. :)

[Elryck]

Yeah, I'm going to go through the portal again, then check the Gal Map. If I still can't see it, I'll bag it...just trying to find one of the early planets I found with ferrite and scrap lying everywhere, and no sentinels...Would be great for an Iron supply base!

[Grimmslayer73]

It may help to know that you can teleport to any space station you have previously been to. If your just trying to get back to, say a base or you starter system or something, use a space station teleporter. Otherwise, you could be warping for a few days trying to follow the waypoint.

[Elryck]

Great idea, thanks!

[chipmonk]

Remember that Dioxite and Parraffinium can both be refined into Ferrite Dust if you cannot find your original planet.

[Elryck]

Got it, thank you!

[Mr. Bufferlow]

It used to be a nice feature for traveling to an unknown location...before you could stay after a portal.

You would portal to the unknown location and that would put it in your list of locations. Then you would mark it as a custom location so you could travel there via warps and black holes. At this time, if you tried to stay in the new location after a portal you would get portal interference and not be able to use teleporters.

Now that you can stay in a new location after a portal...it became another useless feature in the game.

[Elryck]

Hmmm....seems like a step backwards.

[knighttemplar1960]

I've run into a bug a couple of times where the planet I set as a custom way point randomized after a couple of jumps and it pointed me who knows where. I no longer use it to mark a star that's more than 3 total jumps away.

[Lord Stormer]

It's a feature badly needs a reworking. You can't see your custom waypoint in your Galactic Map if you are too far, so you have no idea where it is, that is one example.

My Exotic ship has a range over 3,000 lightyears, and my freighter twice of that, but the guide path lights up over a distance less than 1,000. The advised jump routes is in fact more like skipping rocks in a pond, as if I am still warping with a barely upgraded Radiant Pillar BC1. I have to guess where that path will leads to further away. Sometimes also when searching a gateway system to the center the guide directs me to a system that seems to be the end, only I to found out that the path turns sharply to another direction for some hundred lightyears, depleting my warp tank.
Warping through space is almost futile knowing the immense dimensions of the galaxy. I wish I can warp more than once at a time, by projecting multiple paths through space at once while the energy taken still takes account the number of warps. I use portal a lot, but remember that it is not a conventional way of travelling through space.