Waypoint planning
 

Not sure if you guys will find this helpful or not.

When i plan my waypoint routing all the way out to my patrol assignment and get 1/3 of the way there and have to divert to attack a merchant, the original route i planned is now gone.

well...

if you use the point marker tool on the map, and mark a dot on each change in course along your originally planned route, then divert to attack something and your original route disappears, the little point markers remain.

this is handy because if you shift click to re-plot your original route, if you click on the marked point, it will "snap" to each one of the points you created and presto - you recreated your original route.

you can also set these in order from port to destination and leave them on the map... any time you need to "re-plot" you original route, you can shift click on each point and the waypoint will "snap" to each point