Help with star map search feature

[Indique]

I'm having problems using the search feature in the star map. Has anyone else found a way to search for specific stars that have the whole "blah blah SECTOR blah blah" name?

Example, trying to search for COL 359 SECTOR CU-F B12-5 comes up with nothing.
I can search for COL 359 SECTOR, but it comes up with random stars starting with this name. As soon as I add the space right after that, nothing is found.

Just wondering if someone found a way to search any star without issue. There's one I found and wrote down, but can't find anymore. And with 400 billion stars... even if I try to locate "roughly" the sector I was in... it's rather pointless to randomly search visually, lol :P

Thanks

[URS Retro]

Yeah, having the same problem. Found a lovely system with two planets suitable for teraforming, and a third planet that is Earth Like with life and breathable atmosphere. Was first to report it, but now I can't type it up in my star map search to locate it on the map... annoying.

COL 359 Sector LI-J D9-4

BUMMER!

[brooklyncontrivance]

You can usually get it to work, although it's finicky as hell. Type the name in the exact format it exists in game then try hitting enter. If it doesn't do anything wait a second and then try pressing the arrow next to where you typed the name. Repeat both the arrow and hitting enter two or three times if it still doesn't work. If it still doesn't work, close the galaxy map then open it up again and repeat the process. It will usually eventually go through.

That said there are some system names that will never work, usually because they're longer than the search can accept.

[Ser Cartoon of House Head]

You could try searching for the latter half of the number as that seems to be the identifying part. But I cannot say for sure. The current map and log system leaves a lot to be desired.

Why an advanced space ship cannot fir a satnav or journey log or bookmarks is beyond me. Is one of the niggly things about this game that I do not like.

[Indique]

Tried all of this :P Nothing works.

S'all good, I've learned from it, and now I record all coordinates for worlds/stars I don't want to lose (on the starmap, the numbers like 113 : 55 : 333 when zoomed in, I just pick the coordinates that are closest to the star). Now I can find them. I've tried search in every way and nothing works. I wonder if it's because there are around 400 billion to search from... it might be too long to do a search - seconds/minute(s) to search, hence it isn't implemented. I quickly calculated a general filesize for all the names for 400 billion stars... 7 to 10 gigs (based on the average star name). That might be playing a big part.

It could be implemented to search the first 6-8 characters in a table, then the full name in a database that has all names of that category, for example, COL 359, it would find it much faster, but it might still be several seconds to find it. I don't know, just thinking out loud, lol :P

Love the game regardless. Thanks for the ideas though.

[Indique]

oh, btw, if you record the coordinates manually as I mentioned, click on the star first so it's centered, and the coordinates you record will be as close as possible. If not, you might have zoomed/moved without clicking, and the coordinates you see might be a bit off, making it harder to find later. This system is working well for me. I've found something like 3 earth-like (first find), 5-6 water worlds, and a couple amonia worlds. Thankfully, I recorded the coordinates of all those. :P

[Wolf]

or, if so inclined, you can set your verbose logging to "1" and create a small program to log all the systems you visit with coordinates. :)
i used vb.net but any language can do the same thing, read log, filter content, record content :)

[Indique]

good idea, I might try that one. Though there are still many stars I visit sometimes, I do mutliple jumps at a time, easily 50 stars per hour (and I sometimes jump a couple hours in a day). I figure I've jumped over a thousand times or so, and that can be a fairly long list to search manually. But I do like the idea and may look into it.

For now, I write down the coords for the ones I really don't want to lose.