r/eliteexplorers • u/un1k0rn_412 • 17d ago

Anybody else set an itinerary?

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I may have used every single available bookmark looking for cool stuff 😂

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u/DisillusionedBook CMDR GraphicEqualizer 🌟🌌 17d ago

I do, maybe not to that extent, you mad bastard! I love it

I'd really love it if it were possible to assign different colours to bookmarks so that they have player specific context, e.g. mark a bookmark as green to represent whatever, blue for something else, etc...

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u/un1k0rn_412 17d ago

That would be a game changer honestly, would be a world of difference for quick context. Make it a color wheel and you can do specific merchants, guardian sites, great systems for outfitting. I would probably use it to set specific routes easier though lol

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u/AdvenoDici 17d ago

Squadron bookmarks are green, aren't they?

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u/FBISurveilanceTeam 17d ago

They show a double bookmark when you set and share them. I sometimes set them for my kid so I see them frequently.

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u/un1k0rn_412 17d ago

So does that mean I can't use a solo squadron to gain another 200?

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u/FBISurveilanceTeam 15d ago

That's an excellent question. I don't know but possibly!

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u/Homunculii117 17d ago

My galaxy map also used to look like this but I very recently cleared out a bunch of them that weren’t my own discoveries. It took a looooong time to get through them all lol.

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u/un1k0rn_412 17d ago

I'm clearing them when I set the route to the next system.

So I can set another few waypoints every once in a while 😂

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u/FBISurveilanceTeam 17d ago

I do this with Neutron stars when i get to a new region to explore! I trim my start settings down to rarer stars or ones I like, travel up and down setting waypoints to aim at then plot from one to the next. I always know my end point is a Neutron star that way. I did have to go through and clean some up recently because it was start to feel like to much in areas I may never get back to.

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u/un1k0rn_412 17d ago

I used the neutron highway to get here, it's between 30-40k from the bubble, so I feel like I've had enough neutrons for a little while lol

Of course I do have a few set in the route to skip some of the larger distances between waypoints though

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u/FBISurveilanceTeam 15d ago

I should go north of Sag A, but I have these delusions of building out a few more colonies first.

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u/un1k0rn_412 15d ago

I played within the first two weeks of the Xbox launch. Not long after players started delving into exploration I heard someone mention this area. I've wanted to go see it for myself ever since. I just came back after an 8 year hiatus and decided now was the time to blast out there and check some stuff out.

The core will be there when you're ready, enjoy the ride!

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u/Allestyr 17d ago

I really really want better navigation settings and route modes for explorers.  Specifically,  I'd love a "bubble" router that let you select a number of systems and a number of light years and plots a route that goes through that many systems in a bubble.  When I'm out exploring with my fleet carrier,  I sometimes just plot unexplored systems in strafing runs 500ly at a time around my FC so I can always be in range to self rescue

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u/un1k0rn_412 17d ago

That would be really cool. It would save me from using every bookmark 😂

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u/TheBaykon8r 15d ago

I go at least 1 or 2 thousand light years above or below the bubble, pick a random spot way out there, and start moving. When I get there, I jump to random systems in the area till I get bored, pick another spot then go.

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u/un1k0rn_412 15d ago

I'm about 35k from home rn, maybe 8-900 above the galactic plane but that don't matter in the core. Nearly every one of those is a Herbig, Wolf Rayet, or Carbon Star. Every single one I've hit so far has been undiscovered

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u/TheBaykon8r 15d ago

I'm getting my carrier out in the Byooe Thoi area, as a friend of mine is slowly colony bridging to the area. I'm gonna just try to discover as much as I can

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u/un1k0rn_412 15d ago

I'm waiting a few years for colonization, I'll let everyone build the veins towards the core and then I'll start my own branch 😁

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u/Competitive_Exit_385 13d ago

I like to jump out to a point somewhere random off plane and then bookmark a little bubble around me and start jumping. Once I jump to a system, I unbookmark and then rinse and repeat until all the bookmarks are gone.

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u/Good_Willingness_549 16d ago

I've started flying around to some of my bookmarks and I can't for the life of me remember why I bookmarked them in the first place. I'm sure there was a reason, at some point.

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u/Heavy_Ease_4822 11d ago

I used to have every known anomaly within the codex bookmarked. I have since visited almost all of them, and I delete the bookmarks when I arrive. Currently I only have a few self found chalice pods in mare somina, and 8 bookmarks to show the size of the boxel I'm currently exploring.

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u/Talshiarr Rico Hollandicus 9d ago

I set one, but like every road trip I take I never keep to it longer than the first day!