‘X’ Bookmarks the Spot
Being able to save a location so that you can revisit again later is called Bookmarking (bm). Bookmarks are markers that you put in your ships computer (and will move with you from ship to ship) and will allow you to warp right to a location (within 2000m +/-). This will come in handy early on. If you have tried to warp to an asteroid belt in rookie space and seen that the warp in point is over 100km away from the nearest rock, this is a perfect use of bookmarking.
Bookmarking allows you to go back to a mission site after you have completed the mission. This allows you to clean up the wrecks or to reclaim your loot (salvage). It also allows you to make safe spots in a system or to create different warp in points to gates and stations. These can be helpful in hostile systems.
Bookmarks can also be shared or traded with other players. You can create folder to sort your Bookmarks or leave them in the root directory and sort them by system, constellation or region.
So let’s get started making your own list of favorite sites. First we are going to look at where they are stored and how to edit them. Then I will walk you through creating a few to show you how and then how to use them to your best advantage.
Where to Find Your Bookmarks:
Bookmarks are stored / accessed through the ‘People & Place’ panel located in you NeoCom (icons on the left, the second one down). Click this to open the window and select the ‘Places’ tab. I like to sort my bookmarks by solar systems, so click the table header ‘SOL’ until you have an arrow pointing up. This has now sorted your bookmarks in alphabetical order based on solar systems. Those bookmarks that are in your current system should be highlighted in green. If you select a bookmark (if you have one already) you can right click on it and edit the name, delete it, show information, set destination / waypoint, have the star/system map come up and show you its location or even mark the system to be avoided by the autopilot.
There are a few ways to create a bookmark. The first is by locating an object in space or on your overview and right clicking, then select ‘Bookmark Location’. I should point out that you do have to be within a certain range of some objects and not all objects can be bookmarked. If you can bookmark the target, you will get a window pop up. This window will allow you to label the bookmark. I will point out at this time that your bookmarks will be displayed alphanumerically (with numbers being at the top, and that 10 will show before 2, i.e. 1, 10, 2, 3, 4 …) when you use the menu in space or the navigation triangle next to the system name in the upper left, so if you want things to show in a certain order be careful how you label your bookmarks. You can of course change them later (see above).
There are a couple of reasons to use bookmarks. Recovering loot from a mission, making a short cut to an asteroid, warping to a secure can, a safe spot in the system, or even saving anomalies found during probing. Below is a list of ideas and why you may need them and even a few abbreviations to help in naming them.
Recovering Loot:
You took a mission from and agent, and you have a lot of wrecks and cargo containers but the time for the mission bonus is running out and you don’t have time to do all the salvage or you did not bring a ship with enough cargo space or with a salvager. Bookmark a wreck or can (you will need to do this for each room or area that you warped to because you will not have the acceleration gates). Note: the wrecks, like jet cans, will disappear after about an hour but your bookmark will remain.
Warping to Your Target:
You want to do some mining but the warp in point to a belt is 100km (or in other systems about 20km +/-) away from the nearest rock of Veldspar (or whatever ore). This can be a real pain if you need to do several trips and you’re using a very, very slow ship. Simply find a rock on your over view in the area you want to be, bookmark it (I like to use the belt ID i.e. Belt VI-01, or Veldspar VI-01, …), then warp out to a planet or station, then right click in space, open the menu and find your bookmark and select “warp to”. Presto, you’re right on target (well 2000m +/-). This also works with Secure cans that you have anchored (again I like to use the Belt ID to help out, and remember you cannot anchor a secure can in high sec space above 0.7)).
Making A Safe Spot:
Sometimes you need a spot to repair, reload you weapons, gather your thoughts, or just plain hide from others. Now anyone looking in Local chat will know you’re in the system, but they may not be able to find you. This takes a bit of planning ahead but is relatively easy to do. First open the ‘Places’ tab in the ‘People & Places’ window. From a starting location in system (gate, station, planet …) warp to another location. While in warp hit the ‘Add Bookmark’ button and label this Safe spot 1. Once you are out of warp, select another location to warp to (making sure it is not along the same line as the first location) and repeat label it safe spot 2. Now warp to safe spot 1. Once there warp to safe spot 2 and again while in warp ‘Add Bookmark’ and label safe spot 3. Make sure that this 3rd spot is not along the lines of any object or within sight of one. You can repeat this as many times as you like, generating a series of safe spots. This is sometimes a good idea if you know you are being hunted (or will be). A good prober can find you in less than 30 seconds but not if you keep moving from spot to spot.
Copy and Share:
To copy a bookmark, you need to be docked in a station. Open the ‘Places’ tab in ‘People & Places’, hold down Shift, click drag the bookmark to your hangar, NOT TO YOUR SHIPS CARGO HOLD (this will make you a copy of the bookmark but will also remove it from your list). You can select a maximum of five bookmarks to be copied at one time but just repeat the operation if you need to more copies.
To install a copy of a bookmark, be docked in a station, open the ‘Places’ tab in ‘People & Places’ drag the bookmark from your hangar and drop bookmarks on top of the ‘Places’ tab itself. This will place the bookmark in the rook directory, then just drag and drop into a folder if you wish. Dropping a bookmark on top of another bookmark has no effect.
How-To-Use a Bookmark:
Now That you have all these bookmarks how do you use them? Simply right click in space or use the navigation triangle next to the system name in the upper left hand corner of your screen. Then hover over the bookmark you want in the ‘My Places:’ of the menu and select ‘warp to location’. You can now warp to within 2000m of a asteroid location in a belt, a wreck, a jet can whatever you bookmarked and save a bunch of travel time. You can even warp your favorite station over and over again, or to a nice little hide away to reload or just to gather your thoughts.
I hope you found this information helpful and remember if you have any questions be sure to ask. Subscribe to this site for notice of future post and until next time, Fly Safe
Reggi Mental
