Planet bookmark list

Discussion in 'Mechanics' started by Aselin, Dec 10, 2013.

  1. Aselin

    Aselin Aquatic Astronaut

    I'm unsure this has been suggested before, but is it possible to have a bookmark list of planets visited?

    For example:
    • Home Planet: "Planet Aselin" (x, y)
    • Favorited planets
    • Planets bookmarked
    So, when you sit in the pilot's chair of your ship, there's a button that brings up a list of planets you bookmarked. The first planet on the list will always be your "Home Planet" that you selected. The next planets listed are planets that you have set as "Favorite" with a heart icon or something similar like <3 "Planet Bob". The planets that follow after that are those that you bookmarked.

    And, with that, you can also name these planets however you wish as you bookmark them. Next to each planet name are their coordinates.

    The reason I'm asking for this feature is because I was with two other friends and we got the game off Steam a few days ago. None of us set our home base as the Home Planet, or wrote down the coordinates to it. So, we've kind of lost our home base. Right now we have one of our ships parked in orbit around a new planet we set as a home base. And, we're using the two other ships to do the same to planets of interest so we can easily transfer from one to the other. Another is writing down in a TXT file the coordinates of the planets we are visiting. We're literally reading (x, y) coordinates to each other in Skype if we have to go back to another planet now.

    A bookmark list would make this more convenient.

    Thank you.
     
  2. Eugen0001

    Eugen0001 Void-Bound Voyager

    /signed

    i was going to suggest the same , it would be so helpfull to have a list of POI planets and your own homeplanet
     
  3. skalapunk

    skalapunk Lucky Number 13

    /signed
     
  4. Jaxtor

    Jaxtor Master Chief

    I like this idea. I hope the devs do this.
     
  5. Viivrabe

    Viivrabe Subatomic Cosmonaut

    needed for everyone...

    also there are dotted lines made every time you got to a new system showing where you had been.
    if you need to find the planet again, fallow the lines
     
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  6. Dorlar

    Dorlar Void-Bound Voyager

    i like this idea.. very cool idea!
     
  7. Smitevil

    Smitevil Space Hobo

    Also a Planet jump History or Log would help.
     
  8. Tharse

    Tharse Intergalactic Tourist

    I signed up just to post this suggestion, but you beat me to it.
     
  9. Izunundara

    Izunundara Intergalactic Tourist

    WE NEED THIS.

    I couldn't find my original home planet anywhere q.q
     
  10. the cream man

    the cream man Space Spelunker

    yeah even a check box that marks if you've visited would be great
     
  11. Aselin

    Aselin Aquatic Astronaut

    "ArchiDevil" from another forum posted this:

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    Apparently the older alpha UI had an option for bookmarks was in an alpha version of the game. This is definitely what I want to see.

    You can see the other screenshot in his forum post here.
     
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  12. TheSpacePenguin

    TheSpacePenguin Master Chief

    That would be very useful
     
  13. the black veil

    the black veil Poptop Tamer

    I actually like having to hand write my coordinates... makes it feel more explorer-y...
     
  14. HintOfMint

    HintOfMint Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    This would be a great feature.
     
  15. Froodjakle

    Froodjakle Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Signed. Agree with this, 100%. You can do the EXACT same thing by just making a text file, but it's so much more effort than if they just added a bookmark option.
     
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  16. BeLe

    BeLe Big Damn Hero

    Was going to post this too.
    Bookmarks would be nice.
    I know I don't like having to window my game so I can go to planets I've been to before. (notepad/stickynotes). I also don't have a pen nearby sometimes so writing them down is a bit less convenient.
    Naming would be a definite plus too, since you might not remember Delta WAZ 5093 IV alpha had that wonderful dungeon on it, or some ore you missed, or some trees made of metal, etc.
     
  17. snoeppen

    snoeppen Industrial Terraformer

    Hopefully This Will be added. Great suggestion
     
  18. Medatacy

    Medatacy Orbital Explorer

    /signed

    LOVE this idea!
     
  19. Simoxeh

    Simoxeh Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I
    I agree
     
  20. blue_floran

    blue_floran Space Hobo

    This is a much-needed feature.

    I just want to add, it would also be nice to be able for the player to type in whatever they notes they want to associate with the maps. Just have a free-form text box where the player can write whatever they want like "I built wheat farm here.", or "come back to the dungeon east later when you have a better gun", etc.
     
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