Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello,

Sometimes i like to use the auto-pilot but i dont because its just too slow. Have you ever thought about adding a navigation skill that could improve its precision?

Maybe it could reduce the distance the autopilot lands from objects by 2km. Call it Navigation Prediction or something. 2km each level means 10km reduction at Level 5. Seems a bit much, but there would still be 5km left to travel, which is still a considerable amount especially of you are in a slower ship.

yep
its intentional

Back in the days of yore, the most precisely you could warp to anything, manually or on autopilot, was 15km.

The result was that people made a vast network of bookmarks, 15km behind gates and other locations of interest relative to every other gate and location of interest in every system they traveled through regularly. The servers had to track all these bookmarks, and it was a serious source of lag.

To solve the problem, CCP gave you the option to warp to 0km manually but purposefully never added that option to the autopilot. People got rid of their bookmarks, and everyone moved along happily. Until new players started wondering why there was the discrepancy between manual piloting and the autopilot.

One of the most commonly requested features that could easily be added to the game but never will be is the autopilot to 0 option. As people have said, the autopilot is supposed to be slower and less safe than manually piloting, and the best way to reflect that is imprecise warping. If you want a fluffy justification, well then lets say you, the caspuleer, are letting the ship's computer calculate the warps rather than doing it yourself.

I actually like the idea of imprecise warps, with skills and equipment to make them more precise, and this includes for manual warps. I think it's the masochist in me. Rather than Xkm in front of the destination, though, I would see it being a random spot in a particular radius of the destination, making bookmarks useless to compensate.

which word dont you understand in "intended feature"?
It should expose you to dangers and longer travel times, as drawback for flying afk.

The reason people use autopilot is so they can AFK.

You misunderstand.

Travel over significant distances is supposed to be a time sink.

Auto pilot is something you use if you give up on manual control so you can go afk.
It accepts that you are going to take even longer, but you accept that in exchange for not repetitively micromanaging jump after jump. You get to walk away while it handles the tedium.

It is a trade off.

I think auto pilot is something people use when they dont want to click heaps. However its so slow that they might as well go afk.

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You can still beat the guy autopiloting, even if he has the skill at level 5