Range & Co-ordinates.

tbontob · #1 April 27th, 2003, 10:40 PM

Doh!

I have been playing this game since August and at times found it necessary to count the number of sectors from one spot to another in a system.

A week ago, I thought "Why doesn't Aaron have a display which will give the range from a selected spot? Like it should be easy thing to program into the game."

Well he does!

If you select an object, sliding the mouse about will give the new co-ordinates of the mouse and the range from the object in very small numbers in the bottom left hand corner. Not selecting an object will understandably just give the co-ordinates.

Most, if not all of you guys probably knew this.

Yeh, I know I was slow off the mark on this one.

Slynky · #2 April 28th, 2003, 12:43 AM

Too bad it doesn't work out of the system (in other systems)

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tbontob · #3 April 28th, 2003, 01:15 AM

I just tested it and it does, even systems we have not seen yet (ie they are blank).

But then maybe you are using the term "system" in another way?

Slynky · #4 April 28th, 2003, 01:25 AM

Well, I click on a ship and as I roam the mouse around the system that it is in, it shows the range but when I click to change to another system and move the mouse around, it just shows coordintates. No more range info.

tbontob · #5 April 28th, 2003, 03:19 AM

Oh, I see, at least I think I do.

You would like the range from system to system?

From my own experiments, it only operates within a system.

Selecting a object within the system will give range and co-ordinates from that object within that particular system

It would be nice to know the range from system to system. It would be nice for warp openers.

Which does bring up a question, is there a way of determining the distance between systems? Maybe this is your question too?

Like it does take a lot of time and resources to build a ship which has a gravitational quantum resonator thinking it will reach a certain destination only to find out it does not when completed (and you discover you need a GQR of the next level).

Krsqk · #6 April 28th, 2003, 03:26 AM

IIRC, SE3's range display gave distances even to other systems. I'd guess Aaron didn't want to run the pathfinding subroutine every time you jiggled the mouse cursor.