Online Nav-map

[Antonio]

The online nav map is undoubtedly an amazing tool for quick searching info regarding bases, jumpholes and everything inbetween. Simultaneously, it spoils everything and removes quite a bit of the "discovery" part many people want to see more of. It doesn't help that it overrides systems with no nav map in the game (Omicron Major), completely removing any mystery and spookiness they are supposed to represent. Don't get me wrong, with the patch cycle being so long the online nav map should be fully charted by now, but what if it was a bit different in the upcoming update?

What if next patch the online nav map would not be updated for, say, 1 or 2 months after the patch drops? What if the community would have to be the ones "filling up" the online nav map in some way, and only after 2 months the full map would be released as it'd be figured out by then? I'm curious to see the your thoughts on the concept; would you rather the online nav map be fully spoiled day-1 of the release, have only the new/changed/no-nav-map systems hidden, or everything hidden until X amount of time passes?

The nav map would be fully revealed after 1-2 months at most no matter the option.

Spoiler

I understand there are other ways to spoil the nav map, an example is the "show" command in singleplayer, but it doesn't show an overview of system connections or the no-nav-map systems. You'd have to get into modding to see that, which can't be expected from the average player. Those that desperately want to find something, eventually would anyway, but I don't believe a few *very* determined individuals should be the deciding factor over everyone else.

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