Maps and Beacons

[GrundleGrump]

So, I've just come back to this game having pretty much ignored it soon after release. It's better now and I'm getting into it.

However, I need to ask a question.

Per planet, is there a map I'm missing or a way to keep permanent beacons? I found a housing I wanted to note and put a beacon down but when I reloaded the game, it was gone so I have no idea where that place is. The "journal" logs the station as visited but that doesn't allow for a map marker to be placed?

Is this game intended to be played as if places you've found are gone forever once you leave?

[Lindy Bomber]

No maps (oddly enough). You should be able to drop a save beacon (build menu, portable tech) which will stay there until you pick it up.

[SpannerMonkey]

Hi, had the same kind of issue, and save beacons are the way to go, if you are planning on revisiting the system soon, however if it's an interesting stop on the way through the galaxy it may be worth dropping a base computer in a quiet corner, as while your beacon is not visible on the galaxy map, a base computer is visible, with the bonus that you can teleport to a base computer from anywhere.

[rdouglass1]

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

No maps (oddly enough). You should be able to drop a save beacon (build menu, portable tech) which will stay there until you pick it up.

How does one Distinguish their Save Beacon from the Many Others that are out there??
I know you can set Colors, but they can not be Named as far as I know.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by rdouglass1:

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

No maps (oddly enough). You should be able to drop a save beacon (build menu, portable tech) which will stay there until you pick it up.

How does one Distinguish their Save Beacon from the Many Others that are out there??
I know you can set Colors, but they can not be Named as far as I know.

I use a base computer instead for something like that. I can name it to remind myself why I put it there. I can teleport there from any other powered telelporter. When it becomes obsolete I can simply delete the base.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by rdouglass1:

How does one Distinguish their Save Beacon from the Many Others that are out there??
I know you can set Colors, but they can not be Named as far as I know.

I use a base computer instead for something like that. I can name it to remind myself why I put it there. I can teleport there from any other powered telelporter. When it becomes obsolete I can simply delete the base.

In a player rich environment, the beacons just become eye garbage. In theory, a player probably marked the spot for some valid reason, but as often as not you go to it and wonder "what in the hell were they thinking?".

They work great on a normal game where you are not trying to hang out with others.

[rdouglass1]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

I use a base computer instead for something like that. I can name it to remind myself why I put it there. I can teleport there from any other powered telelporter. When it becomes obsolete I can simply delete the base.

I think the same way...

[rdouglass1]

btw, I would Love to be able to see Maps of Planets showing what the player has seen...

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

I use a base computer instead for something like that. I can name it to remind myself why I put it there. I can teleport there from any other powered telelporter. When it becomes obsolete I can simply delete the base.

In a player rich environment, the beacons just become eye garbage. In theory, a player probably marked the spot for some valid reason, but as often as not you go to it and wonder "what in the hell were they thinking?".

They work great on a normal game where you are not trying to hang out with others.

I assume you are talking about an expedition. I've found that it makes little difference since both are shown on the planet(s). The base computer is more convenient because you can rename it and teleport to it and disassembling the base computer gets your materials back. The only option with a beacon is to carry it and keep an inventory slot full or discard it and waste the materials.

Originally posted by rdouglass1:

btw, I would Love to be able to see Maps of Planets showing what the player has seen...

Maps of explored parts of multiple planets and systems would be far too memory intensive, even for the best computers, particularly for a long term save.

[luther84695]

I just hand copy the coordinate. When you fly around, you should see the coordinate on your map.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Steve-O:

Per planet, is there a map I'm missing or a way to keep permanent beacons?...Is this game intended to be played as if places you've found are gone forever once you leave?

The buildable beacons, despite appearances, are actually terrible ways of building permanent beacons. Besides being limited to 5 per planet, you have absolutely no way of creating names for them or returning to them specifically by some in-game means other than to remember the system they are in, or wandering into them by accident. And they are beacons with no names. Worse, every buildable beacon you place DEDUCTS from your construction item total. So conceivably you could run into a build wall, ie. can't build anything any more, just by littering the cosmos with buildable beacons.

The best and most reliable way to be able to instantly locate anything anywhere in any galaxy is to (1) always write down system glyph addresses when you enter systems (as displayed in photo mode), (2) write down any X, Y coordinates for any spot, and label it accordingly. And write down the galaxy name, if you get that far. For example, you would have a little notebook by your gaming rig, and then you would have, on each line, some address with a description:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828631938