Hi,

I just wonder if it might be possible to read the solar panels strength for calculating the distance to a planet.
Did u look into this approach already?

That's actually not a bad idea, and would be possible by comparing the starting and destination planet strengths.

Unfortunately I'm going to be pretty busy over the next week or so, so I'm not planning on making large changes to the code for a while. I'll definitely keep this idea in mind though when I get around to making use of distances.

(Additionally though, one of the mods I'm currently using actually reduces the solar strength in space to 0, which might make it incompatible with this mod. Something I'll look into when I start implementing it.)

An alternative solution, which I don't know if it's possible: Can you check the asteroid density? If you can, you can just create a fake asteroid density that's just 'Nauvis to Vulcanus Distance' that starts at 0 at Nauvis, goes to 1 at Vulcanus?

Not sure if you can read asteroid density at runtime. You could put in a request to have it be readable and then it’d probably work ok, but at that point you might as well just +1 the request to make distance readable and directly solve the issue.