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Light Year Distance?

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Big Jim Slade
Kentucky Fried Nightmare
#1 - 2012-09-06 00:53:16 UTC
I know there are 3rd party programs that can calculate how many light years it is to a certain system, but i would love to see it in the area of your where your waypoints are set on the screen. Also, It would be cool if you guys could put them on system info. to just like the how you guys got the "skill requirements" for ships and how long it will take for you to get into a ship,module,skill ....etc. etc.

would love your thoughts

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-09-06 01:04:50 UTC
1 lightyear is 63241.1 AU or 5878625 million miles or 0.306601 parsecs (means Han Solo found a shortcut apparently)

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Natasha Stone
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-09-06 01:35:18 UTC
Maybe if you actually got in a capital ship you'd realise it DOES show you your jump range.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-09-06 01:39:10 UTC
Natasha Stone wrote:
Maybe if you actually got in a capital ship you'd realise it DOES show you your jump range.


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Big Jim Slade
Kentucky Fried Nightmare
#5 - 2012-09-06 01:41:25 UTC
Natasha Stone wrote:
Maybe if you actually got in a capital ship you'd realise it DOES show you your jump range.

Thats not what i mean im saying this:

Point A: i am here

Point B: my destination

If somewhere in around those blocks they would put the distance in LY from point A. to point B.

I am a cap pilot and im just suggesting an idea that could possibly be useful.
Rengerel en Distel
#6 - 2012-09-06 01:53:47 UTC
Features and Ideas is a different forum.

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Big Jim Slade
Kentucky Fried Nightmare
#7 - 2012-09-06 01:58:15 UTC
didn't realize thanks for letting me know
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-09-06 01:59:23 UTC
Big Jim Slade wrote:
Natasha Stone wrote:
Maybe if you actually got in a capital ship you'd realise it DOES show you your jump range.

Thats not what i mean im saying this:

Point A: i am here

Point B: my destination

If somewhere in around those blocks they would put the distance in LY from point A. to point B.

I am a cap pilot and im just suggesting an idea that could possibly be useful.


There is a website I used back when I flew a carrier that gave me all this info + how much fuel it took but I forgot it

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Jiska Ensa
Estrale Frontiers
#9 - 2012-09-06 02:15:35 UTC
There's an in-game tool which sort of does this, albiet in a slightly useless way.

Go to the Esc Menu --> Shortcuts --> Window, and set a shortcut for "Open Capital Ship Navigation"

In the Capital Navigaiton window you get two options (Pretty sure you must be in a capital ship for it to even work)

First option shows you a list of starbase cyno beacons, the sec status of the system they're in, the fuel required to reach it, volume of fuel, distance in LY, and whether it's in range or not.

Second tab is "Within Range" and lists every single system your ship could potentially jump to (including all those details in the Jump To tab)

So using this you can find the exact distance to a particular system, but only if you can currently jump to it (ie useless for what you seem to want)



I wouldn't mind seeing a kind of compass rose on the star map, centred on your current location, with range ticks every 5 or so LY, and a dynamic circle intersecting your current destination (or sphere if unflattened). Green if you can jump there (within your jump sphere) and red if it's out of range. Showing the exact distance. Would be more useful than a giant list of every system you can jump to.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-09-06 02:54:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Mallak Azaria
Big Jim Slade wrote:
Natasha Stone wrote:
Maybe if you actually got in a capital ship you'd realise it DOES show you your jump range.

Thats not what i mean im saying this:

Point A: i am here

Point B: my destination

If somewhere in around those blocks they would put the distance in LY from point A. to point B.

I am a cap pilot and im just suggesting an idea that could possibly be useful.


If it's within your jump range, you don't really need to know if you plan to jump there anyway. Also, dotlan.

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Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-09-06 04:30:57 UTC
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#12 - 2012-09-06 04:45:21 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-09-06 04:47:45 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
Your welcome.


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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#14 - 2012-09-06 08:15:13 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
NiGhTTraX wrote:
ShahFluffers wrote:
Your welcome.


*You're. You're welcome :D teehee

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King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#15 - 2012-09-06 11:55:33 UTC
I saw this incredible thing in game called a capital navigation window a while back. It listed all sorts of crazy stuff like systems within your ship's jump range, how far away they are (in LY) and how much fuel would be consumed to reach it. It even showed the system's sec status and some other tidbits. This was last night and it's been there since the introduction of capital ships as far as I know.

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Magic Crisp
Amarrian Micro Devices
#16 - 2012-09-06 11:56:29 UTC
Theoriticall this would also be useful for things like Planetary Interaction. When you're not in the same system as the planet you're managing, the resource precision depends on the distance, in lightyears, i think it's the remote sensing skill or whatever. Would be nice to know how far i'm out.
Evelyn Meiyi
Corvidae Trading and Holding
#17 - 2012-09-06 18:43:25 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
1 lightyear is 63241.1 AU or 5878625 million miles or 0.306601 parsecs (means Han Solo found a shortcut apparently)



Actually, Han was messing with Luke's head. Parsecs are a measurement of time, not distance. Lucasfilm...umm...'Han'waved it b saying that he took a trip around the edge of a black hole and used its effects to gain a few seconds.