Automatic targetting (Plot Route)

[Kurbo26]

I ran into two problems with the default keystrokes for targeting the next system when plotting a route (e.g. Neutron Highway). I'm not sure if anyone else has these but thought I would share how I resolved them.

1. When using the copilot button or panel to target the next system, the default keystrokes issued by Outrider actually tell the game to "plot" to the next system. There seems to be an issue where even though you have the range to make it to the next system in one hop, when the game plots it, it plots an intermediary stop. (I do have "Fastest Routes" and "Use Jet-Cone Boost" selected in the game's Route Settings.)

I fixed this by targeting the next stop (using the icon on the right of the galaxy map), rather than plotting a route to it:
Set "Autotarget plot" to:
hold CamZoomOut 0.2
press UI_Right
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Down
press UI_Select

2. When a system name is entered that matches more than one system (e.g. "Sol") the default keystrokes (which submit two ENTER keystrokes) do not work.

The fix for this is to select the first item from the list, instead of pressing ENTER twice:
Set "Autotarget submit" to:
wait 1.5
press Enter
wait 0.5
press UI_Down
press UI_Select

[weslocke]

The selection of a system name that returns multiple matches was a problem I had encountered but never got back to fixing. Going to play around with your tweaks to see if that works for me as well. Also once the servers are back up going to try the #1 tweak as well. I seem to remember that I might have different focused ui elements at different times when going into the galaxy map which would break that "go down 8 times", but I might be wrong.

Also going to be putting an an "Auto Target" settings section where people can put in their own macros for each of the functions without having to edit the settings file manually.

[Kurbo26]

I also was wondering about the "go down 8 times" sequence. It worked in all my cases during testing, but I really did not do too much of it. I wanted to start the discussion on it to see if it would be reliable or if there is a better way.

One issue with this is that although it seems to work for a Spansh route (which has each hop defined), it will not work when you want to use Outrider to actually plot a route in game. Hmm....

If I remember right, EDCopilot gave an option for routing method, but I think it always used "target system" instead of "plot route" for Neutron Highway. I do not know if it simply went down 8 times, or if there was more intelligence behind it. (Outrider does check that the target actually worked. I don't remember EDCopilot doing this validation.)

I came back to the bubble after exploring that boxel. My goal was to gather 1.6B in exobiology to get to Elite. Convenient that an exploration CG just started, so I could put the data to good use.

[weslocke]

If you have a chance, try out the latest commits. I worked in your targeting method for when the destination is a decent jump, and should be used for plot targets. Hadn't thought about it someone had Use Funnel Cone disabled that it would break the plotting. (not what happened to you, but another reason to add it). There's an auto target section in settings now that has a fourth "macro" field that can be customized for that

[Kurbo26]

I gave it a try and it seems to be working as expected. I did not actually go on a "journey", but I tried various routing scenarios and they did the right thing (target vs plot). I'll let you know if I see anything unusual, but it looks good. I'll likely head back to Elysian Shore for the CG in the next day or two, so that will test a longer route and I'll test routing through a bit of a boxel as well.

[weslocke]

Good deal! Definitely let me know how it works on a longer trip. I ran a short highway 4 or 5 times tweaking the thing, and the last couple went pretty smoothly... but it was only about 5 jumps either way. Also thanks for the heads up on that functionality gap

[Kurbo26]

I had no issues. Went on a trip of about 9 jumps or so, and then another one 7 jumps deeper. I did not run into any issues.

Did some boxel exploration. I was curious what would happen if the next target was outside of the jump range, but never ran into a problem. It seems to use the game's "plot route" for boxels. So this is all good.

In case you're interested, before leaving on this trip I did the other CGs, so I went into some panels I haven't really used (missions, mining location search, sell location search). All these worked perfectly, including routing from these panels.

[weslocke]

Nice! Thank you!