Ships display movement / target range?

[capnq]

But you can't get a distance measurement without actually plotting the movement.

You can, but it's really tedious.

select a object - planet, moon, ship, unit - and then put mouse over another spot. And in lower left hand side it should show distance.

Select the ship, put the mouse on the first warp point it will go through; add one to that range, select the other end of the warp point, put the mouse on the second warp point, add that range plus one, repeat until you reach the destination.

If there's more than one possible route, you have to trace them all to find the shortest one.

[Target]

Thank you all for your input on this thread.

Actually, I have gotten the display in the lower left of my screen to show the distance to target as range: x. What I truly am looking for is what Phoneix D referred to when he stated:

"If it works correctly (it almost always does for me) you give an order, and the ship displays a line to the destination. Each square is marked by a number, which represents the number of turns required to get to that spot."

And, I can not find out how to get this information to display. Additional Posts after this post by Phoenix D suggest others have but it is intermittent, yet I have never been able to get mine to display. My system is set to 1024 x 768 but it doesn't show anything additional at this resolution over 480 x 680...

Regards,

Target

[Phoenix-D]

Again, it is

Game Menu|Options|Display ship movement lines

If that is checked (green dot), you should be able to see the movement lines. Note that if you're playing in Sequential mode, you WON'T see the lines unless you plot movement for a ship that has 0 MP remaining.

Phoenix-D

[Target]

Right, got it, that worked, and....

I am not worthy.....

Thanks! You guys are great!