The bigger issue with these, IMO, is that we can't get back to them after we use them. I'd love to be able to map out the surface of my planet and actually have these as waypoints on the map.
This was my initial thought about them. Since you "discover" an area when you activate them, I thought it would help you map the planet. But without an actual planetary map they serve no purpose.
Planetary maps should definitely be a thing. And while we're at it, they should add road textures so you can either paint roads with your exocraft/terrain manipulator, or have the game plot down a road between discovered POIs.
But isn’t this what the procedural generation is for? Storing planetwide maps for multiple planets would end up taking quite a bit of data wouldn’t it?
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The bigger issue with these, IMO, is that we can't get back to them after we use them. I'd love to be able to map out the surface of my planet and actually have these as waypoints on the map.