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Green lines connecting stars in system map?
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Morikar
#1 - 2013-04-14 15:34:38 UTC
While flying around I entered a system where I saw a green line connecting a bunch of stars - is this just decoration or does it mean anything?

Pic showing what I mean: http://imageshack.us/a/img805/7442/evew.png

Thanks!
mkint
#2 - 2013-04-14 15:45:36 UTC
It's your autopilot route. not useful but kinda cool.

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Morikar
#3 - 2013-04-14 16:28:49 UTC
Ahh funky. How long ago did they add that in?
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-04-14 16:42:40 UTC
February.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2013-04-14 16:45:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Morikar wrote:
Ahh funky. How long ago did they add that in?

Reason to read the patch notes and dev blogs. Blink

Patch notes for EVE Online: Retribution 1.1 wrote:
Deployed on Tuesday, 19th of February 2013.

Features
Info Panels - Dev Blog

* Added an Autopilot Route Visualizer into the space scene. This option is turned on by default but can be turned off in the Autopilot Route settings utility menu

http://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-retribution-1.1

Dev Blog - CCP Optimal - All hail the Info Panels wrote:
Another neat new feature, which is toggled through the new autopilot settings menu by selecting “Show route path in space”, will reveal one of our best kept secrets; the stars in the space scene nebula actually represent the solar systems of New Eden. By plotting the route in space you’ll feel more like you’re actually travelling through space while burning up your route, rather than just appearing at arbitrary locations. In the near future we’re hoping to add some neat stuff to this feature such as making the stars interactive. Also, we (as in Team Game of Drones) didn’t really do any of the hard route plotting work. CCP Mannapi did. We’re just here to rob the credit. That’s how we roll.

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=74215

CCP Mannapi wrote:
Hi there,

I first got the idea for this when I was orienting the star gates to point to the actual stars, a long time ago. This was a pet project that I did in a few evenings in my spare time. My hope was to bring more depth to the background and a sense of direction when traveling long distances.

I am glad you like it. To those who don't see the point: I guess I should have done something else in my spare time :)

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2501854#post2501854
Aidan Durden
da Vinci Holdings
#6 - 2013-04-14 17:07:31 UTC
That someone at CCP took the time to do this as a pet project and its such a subconcious improvement in the game - is worthy of recognition! Really cool new feature I've noticed since rejoining too!

Thanks Tau Cabalander for putting together the nice outline!
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-04-14 18:33:41 UTC
mkint wrote:
It's your autopilot route. not useful but kinda cool.


This...

The utterly useless but nice looking Auto-pilot route

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Ovv Topik
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-04-14 22:17:40 UTC
They intend to expand on it further, so you can check the activity stats of each system from the route in space.

I imagine and hope this will be able to be done while warping to the next gate.

Now that would be incredibly useful!

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Sishen Gzi
Hellion Support Services
#9 - 2013-04-15 07:13:10 UTC
very cool effect,my favorite part of the update
Merouk Baas
#10 - 2013-04-15 12:40:03 UTC
Also, the nebulas are now actual volumetric clouds (spanning light-years), rather than fixed background images. From Caldari space you can see a red smudge of a nebula in the direction of Minmatar space (if you set autopilot to there, the green line ends up somewhere in the red nebula), and from Minmatar space you can look back and see the faint smudge of the blue Caldari nebula.

Pretty cool.
Aidan Durden
da Vinci Holdings
#11 - 2013-04-15 19:04:40 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:
Also, the nebulas are now actual volumetric clouds (spanning light-years), rather than fixed background images. From Caldari space you can see a red smudge of a nebula in the direction of Minmatar space (if you set autopilot to there, the green line ends up somewhere in the red nebula), and from Minmatar space you can look back and see the faint smudge of the blue Caldari nebula.

Pretty cool.



Very cooool!!!