I was looking through all the console commands in the appendix and came across these, LocalRadarNext and LocalRadarPrev.

How do they work exactly?

I was using LocalRadarNext in a sector with lots of asteroids doing a prospecting mission and it didn't seem to be targeting the next closest roid. It would often target roids far away.

Another observation is that eventually it stopped working. It got to a roid where hitting Next didn't target another roid.

So I'm wondering if it's cycling through the roids id numbers sequentially which would explain all the backtracking and why it stopped. It would stop if it got to the roid with the highest id number.

So is that how it works?

I'm hoping so, because if so then that sounds like an effective way to be thorough and make sure I don't miss any roids while prospecting for a rare ore.

Lol, nevermind. I just found out about targetless's unroid command. :-)