Tiy tweeted a suggestion, what do you think?

I don't quite like this idea. I'd recommend reducing the fuel cost of space travel or making the jump to your home system free or almost free of charge.

 

If they also change the travel animation this would be the best idea. I realize it's not really that long but it certainly feels long, especially when traveling to another planet in the same system.

Edit: oh and just because someone doesn't care for over complicated "simulation" type mechanics doesn't make them casual. I'm sick of this meme, not everyone wants their games to feel like work.

 

I like the suggestion, sure, but I'd also still enjoy having a waypoint bookmark list.

One thought on Tiy's suggestion I wonder though, is how "beaming home" would work when you are on a friend's ship. Would it beam you to their home planet? Yours? Hmmm.

 

maybe this new button is a 1-way ticket and you have to get new fuel to leave home

how should we know

 

I should think that if you're teleporting your ship would remain where you left it and you would teleport back when done

 

I'd be more likely to set a Home planet at least if I didn't have to keep 200+ fuel in at all times in case I want to go back to grab some stuff.

 

It's a good idea but it makes no sense.

What needs to be implemented is a secondary telepad which teleports you to a rare artifact that you manually place on the home planet.

 

This would be a huge immersion breaker. Why even have a starship if you can teleport between sectors instantly via teleporter? Why not just build a teleporter on your planet and scrap the starship all together?

 

How can you set up the teleport system if you haven't visited the planet? I like rivetspawn's idea of a manually placed artifact. I think also think that your ship has to be upgraded to allow home planet teleporting. Your ship can only handle one powerful teleporter. In addition, we should be able to craft lesser teleporters which can only be used beam to a spot the pad is placed on the planet.

 

I like the idea, as it allows me to readily establish a true home base of operations instead of thinking up numerous ways to cram all the important stuff on my ship (and thus, prone to others rifling through in multiplayer).

However, it presents a different issue, and that i shaving to click two times instead of one for every single time it fails to beam down to the current planet I am orbiting. As it is, it takes me anywhere from 5-15 teleportation tries before it finally sends me to the planet's surface. Having to do that and click 'current planet' would exacerbate the issue exponentially.

 

It's really odd, being able to beam across stars.

 

Only, and I mean only if we don't have to travel to our homeworld using this, and it doesn't take away from the convenience of the teleport hotbar on the rightside of the screen.

 

But not FTL travel, and the very premise of teleportation in general?

 

I like this idea. I want to create a home planet, but I simply don't have the fuel needed to jump back between it and wherever I'm exploring.

 

Denied! Unnecessary! And seems rather illogical that you can simply beam back to your home planet that may be light years away. Hahaha hope you all get stuck in the depths of space while trying to beam that far! Oops gots to contain my darker side. So basically this system is casual friendly. I think with the navigation system the player can already set a home but will have to jump all the way back. More tedious? Yes, but I'd rather have it this way instead of toning down everything to a casual level. And I am sure some may have mentioned -not really relevant to topic-, but a travel log of maybe the last 5 destinations when the player opens up the navigation panel would be great and efficient too.

 

How is it not odd? Our ship has an FTL drive and a device to beam down to planets. When our ship travels across stars at FTL it's a major undertaking that exerts large amounts of fuel.

But suddenly our telepad has the range of the entire universe to beam us around for free, but only for one specific planet that we mark in the computer?

 

"JUST MAKE JUMPING HOME FREE"

This system IS jumping home free without the tedious crap of going through a loading screen and selecting the planet.

Don't add useless loading screens to the game. This system works fine.

 

A simple teleport is the best and only necessary fix. The arc idea is good for manually setting a beam down point, but shouldn't be required. A "home" teleport option removes the two only factors discouraging people from setting up a home world: fuel costs and travel time. A "free FTL flight home" doesn't really fix the issues the suggested simple home planet teleport does.

If it breaks your immersion to beam across lightyears of space, don't use it. Problem solved.

 

No. Definitely not

 

I think a teleporter you need to craft will make the trick. As people said, is a little strange being able to bean through the galaxy, at least if you can do from the beginning, maybe in 2 - 3 tier or something.