Long distance route plotting

[veldez10122]

I had a couple questions about plotting long routes. I tried to plot from the bubble to Sagi A* and got the message "route unavailable". Is there a limit on how many jumps can be plotted at once, or is my ship's jump range just too short? I have a 32-ish range, and figured that would be enough to make my way coreward.........

Also, I noticed all the stars I could see near the center had a little yellow-orange arc over their names. What does that mark mean lol? It isn't in the galaxy map legend.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

There is a limit. It is 1,000 Ly in economy mode plotting and 20,000 Ly in fastest mode. Trying to plot farther than that will give you that route unavailable error (it can happen with other routing problems, like locked out regions, too).

There might be some glitches that can successfully plot a route farther than 20kLy, even if showing that error. I made a 23kLy plotting once.

[funkynutz]

I always thought it was 25KLY? Can't say I've tried... I can't travel more than 1000LY without getting distracted or reading something, and changing direction anyway...

[>//The_FALCON]

the solution is to use a thrid party app to calculate your route

[malorob]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

I always thought it was 25KLY? Can't say I've tried... I can't travel more than 1000LY without getting distracted or reading something, and changing direction anyway...

you can not fly from the bubble to colonia which is 22Ly

[Pathfinder Serza]

As was said above, you can't plot over 20kLY in fastest mode. For longer journeys, use the Neutron Plotter.

https://spansh.co.uk/plotter

There's also a more advanced variant that accounts for refuels, but I like to resolve that by plotting no fewer than two neutrons ahead (usually it's actually three) via spansh, which usually gives me at least one or two systems of main sequence stars (O B A F G K M) for me to scoop.

Welcome to the Neutron Highway, Commander. We zippin'.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by malorob:

Originally posted by funkynutz:

I always thought it was 25KLY? Can't say I've tried... I can't travel more than 1000LY without getting distracted or reading something, and changing direction anyway...

you can not fly from the bubble to colonia which is 22Ly

When I went to Sag A*, that was before we could plot more than 1000LY anyway. When I went to Colonia... I got there the lazy way and took a ride on a friends fleet carrier... I didn't return with the crew though, and spent the better part of a year slowly wandering back with economical route plotting... The same friend picked me up about 10KLY from Sol on his way back from the 2nd trip to Colonia... So I've never needed to try any further

[malorob]

@funkynutz back in the day i went to beagle point about 3 month earlier than DW2 only 200hours into my first play through of elite. a non engineered anaconda 40Ly .

got space maddness on the way back could not play a game or boot up the PC for 6 months

[Indy Scot]

Neutron Super Highway make friends with it cmdr