Trade Lanes

[tansytansey]

I still think spiraled lanes...make the second ring some 10 degrees off the axis of the first, the 3rd ring 20, and so on and so forth...would add a level of excitement to traveling along them...

This is impossible. A tradelane propells you forward in the direction the tradelane is facing, it does not link up to another tradelane. If you have two tradelanes facing in different directions your ship will fly off endlessly into space, because it will not link up with another tradelane to slow it down. Of course, hitting esc will stop you.

The first tradelane I ever made the first lane in the line was facing backwards, and when I docked with it my ship flew backwards and into a planet. Another lane I made the rotation value was slightly off and my ship flew off course and into the sun, although interestingly enough tradelanes allow you to fly directly through a sun without taking damage. Don't remember if it works with planets.

actually its not that hard to change the rotation:

to "flip" a TL on it's side take the rotation numbers X, Y, Z. and change all the rings to -Y, X, -90
so 0, -45, 0 becomes 45, 0, -90...or 0, 145, 0 becomes -145, 0, -90.
not entirely true

The difficulty comes from knowing which tradelane to rotate which way. That tradelane you quoted, do you know which lane in the system that tradelane comes from? Can you point it out on the map? Do you know which way it needs to be rotated to be flipped on its' side? The only way to find that out is through trial and error, which is a long process when you have to make the change, load the server, log on and repeat 0-4 times until your lane is rotated correctly, then move onto the next lane. Some systems have something of 10+ tradelane paths.

For something completely trivial... I just. don't think its' worth the effort unless someone can come up with a simple solution


On a more positive note, it may be possible to do this in a more simple way by rotating the actual model of the tradelane rather than in the ini files. But you would also need to correctly align the position that the ships "dock" with the lane. I think this is the only true solution to this.

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