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neotron / EDPathFinder

A program that creates an optimal route that passes through two or more systems in Elite: Dangerous. Primarily focused on making settlement data point farming easier.
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Base search/lookup feature #20

Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Some assassination and tip-off missions require to fly to a specific base and interact with the core terminal.

It would be useful if ED Pathfinder would allow looking up bases by system and/or settlement name to be able to look at the base layout and determine the chance of success before accepting the mission.

If the base is not know yet, having the ability to look at a gallery of all know bases of size X and security Y would allow identifying currently unknown bases reliably, especially if the program would display the classification criteria used by Cmdr dja. There seems to be only a limited number of base types, and we could feed back information a la "settlement X on planet Y in system Z has the same layout as the settlement A on your list" to Cmdr dja.

neotron commented 6 years ago

The problem is that the categorization by dja is very manual, and only done for about 1800 settlements. This is nothing compared to the overall set of settlements and sadly there's no way to automatically gather the data - you have to fly there and visually look at the base.

I could add a base type viewer (so you can try to find the right base and get maps for it and such) though. It wouldn't help you know whether or not to take the mission, but would at least make it easier to do the mission once you get there.