Choosing a Home Station (Elite Dangerous)

[@MrUbernoob9000]

My ship is my home, that's just the way it is for a space trucker.

[@PartsuPihimys]

heh, currently my my ship "Dandy bee lion" is my home, I'm just hopping from system to system...though since most of my ships are in ehecatl, that may count as my home... even if most of my time I have spent touring the stars in my trusty Diamondback explorer...

[@rinkokonoe8644]

The way she goes.

[@MrCountrycuz]

MrUbernoob9000 10-4 Hand. Trucker here.

[@andreylebedenko1260]

One does not fight in his own home.

[@Batavijf]

This is the way.

[@Pailzor]

Oblivion. Purely for the name, and the "Welcome to Oblivion" sign as I enter.

[@Bacondoggo]

Pailzor I find it nice for exploration in semi deep space, currently I’m on the way there from the bubble nebula and It actually is a good station

[@martinhill7304]

is there a station called "The Jungle" anywhere?

[@TheSixStringGuy]

@@martinhill7304 hahaha I see what u did there 😏

[@pikuhana]

theres a pretty nice station in nanabozho that I frequent called lamarck orbital

[@haruo20101]

Foda Station makes me laugh my ass off everytime because of the same reason. "Foda" means "fuck" in portuguese.

[@Screwypone]

5:00 The elusive record holder fastest docking-takeoff commander

[@starwalkingsage7489]

Boosted off the pad doing 715 in an imp eagle. Cliped the slot it flipped me 180 and shot me out backwards. I lost my shit laughing.

[@kalebbruwer]

Did he take off backwards? How do you even do that?

[@SkitariiAlpha]

@@kalebbruwer Im pretty sure you can do it if you rip your docking computer out

[@kalebbruwer]

@@SkitariiAlpha I don't have one. When I press launch the pad turns

[@yaldabaoth2]

@@kalebbruwer Probably wasn't docked for real, just hovered there to show off this crazy maneuver.

[@KnjazNazrath]

Hutton is the best home station. Getting a free 'conda every time you dock is just so satisfying. Really makes you feel wanted.

[@insecteater1]

No, you are wrong, do not lie to people, please!!!! It is NOT every single time you dock. There is a cooldown period!!!!

[@kuhluhOG]

2:10 I highly doubt that Frontier is ever going to nerf Jameson Memorial since it was originally a gift towards alpha- and beta-players (so they got access to it immediately while normal players need to reach an Elite rank first)

[@jaceksiuda]

@@ivicacajavec Until next week, when it's getting nerfed...

[@94grungerocker]

The only thing they should nerf about Jameson is the Piracy Problem. I almost never can fly there in the open game without being interdicted by other players.

[@Yanpac]

@@94grungerocker Frontier must buff the intervention AI in order to calm the gankers, even if it means creating an AI that is unbeatable or almost just for this system. After all it is the Elite system.

[@Grimsace]

@@jaceksiuda I know I have the benefit of foresight here, but laughs in low temp diamonds.

[@idcgaming518]

@@jaceksiuda they still haven't nerfed Ngalin-Mainani yet.

[@MarkMT]

Breakdown of options for a 'Home Station': 0:00 = Intro, Sepulcher Geist 1:52 = Jameson Memorial - Shinrarta system : Has all ships and modules + permanent 10% discount. Close to drop-out star, central location in 'the Bubble'. Home to many veteran commanders. Aggressive space in open-play mode. Requires Elite rank for access permit. 3:30 = I Sola Prospect - Brestla system : No requirements for access permit. Has all ships and modules, but at a 20% markup in prices. Planet-side outpost is a different feel for a home base, but landing planet-side takes more time and effort. 4:48 = Ray Gateway - Diaguandri system : Well stocked with many ships and modules (but not all), permanent 15% discount. Has material traders. Close to drop-out star. Home to many combat commanders. Local opportunities for bounty hunting. 5:45 = Abraham Lincoln - Sol system : (or any space station in the Sol system) Large community (can be both good and bad). Nostalgic value of visiting our own solar system. 6:36 = Jaques Station - Colonia system : Solid station overall. The frontier for miners and explorers. A "new world" or "2nd Bubble" 20K+ Light Years away from the Bubble. 7:34 = Explorer's Anchorage - Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 : Close(-ish) to the centre of the Galaxy. "1 jump" away from the super massive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy. 8:03 = Hackworth Orbital - Ehecatl system : A Federal station in Empire controlled territory. Some political conflict. Opportunities for slave trading See you in th black commanders... Cmdr Kean M. Thane, over and out.

[@xxXBig_BenXxx]

Shoot, only 20+ Lights away? Colonia here I come!

[@CurtDegree]

"Over and out" is incorrect/inappropriate radio jargon. You're telling someone "I'm done, please reply" (over), followed by immediately telling them "I'm ending this conversation" (out). Radio-Grammar Nazi rant complete.

[@MarkMT]

@@xxXBig_BenXxx I forgot the 'K' ...that makes all the difference for it being "right around the corner" or closer to needing a generational ship to reach xD Thanks for the correction ;)

[@MarkMT]

@@CurtDegree I appreciate the correction Although "technically correct-ish", as I do invite for comments on KZbin... but I might not be listening ;)

[@XxChancex]

Thank you!

[@heintz256]

It would be nice to actually *have* a home in a station.

[@DNH17]

Yeah.. we shld just wait for star citizen when they stop testing on ppl like today all producers do.

[@andreylebedenko1260]

Hopefully one day after space legs expansion when they will finally realise, that creativity attracts players as much as grind, exploration or pvp do. Give people a way to express themselves in unique way and they will spend enormous amount of time (and money) perfecting the look and feel of *their* homes.

[@DNH17]

@@andreylebedenko1260 right now this game is basically mining simulator, exploration simulator, fighting sinulator. Nothing else ... there is no story, no mission interactions really. Just take this here to here... or am i wrong? I am including the extra game fun and organizations into this "opinion" ... what is the point? Just go around and .. bounty hunt i guess? Or pirate.. or try to interact with your Voice attack voice? ... The power play is super trash and can be influenced by offline griefers of which the game is full... i play open no other way is fun. It really feels something is missing and it s not the legs actually .. not that it s how the quest mechanics are.. they are too flat.

[@andreylebedenko1260]

@@DNH17 I see your point -- there are not many answers on "*why* i would do that?", but then again, there is not much to use to drive the humans' actions anyway. After all, there are only three aspects of our nature, which make us do something: anger, curiosity and creativity. The first two are used in the game quite heavily, but not the third one. But it is not just this game, which suffers from this problem, a lot of others very popular online space MMO titles do. The good thing is, developers of other titles realised that already, that's why we see those new games, where one can create virtually anything in space or on the surface. I believe the trend will eventually touch ED as well, otherwise... well, let's just hope for the best.

[@dreamyrhodes]

@@DNH17 If you have a group of friends that enjoy going out causing mischief or another group might be science nerds that just enjoy a somewhat (as far as known) realistic representation of our own galaxy, exploring all the places you read about on NASA website, dreaming of a world where space travel is real like you just get in your car and drive a few hours to visit something.

[@KingBanshee]

As an Australian, flying a passenger mission though Kunti, I knew where my homebase would be.

[@yesjo1456]

LMAO

[@bdogg1357]

Is it on fire, if so it’s perfect for you

[@Zenarchist]

@@bdogg1357 Hilarious American. Please hit us with some more hard hitting intellectual humour

[@gkcl1]

My favorite part about Kunti, is that it is a prison colony, like Australia USED to be

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

Zenarchist assuming he’s american?

[@scaletho]

My home is still Dromi - Matet (Mawson Dock - Coelho Station). I'm newbie and I like the relative calm of those two close systems.

[@harryjsj7206]

You should leave the starter systems, Mawson was my home for a while but its well worth leaving the starter area

[@harryjsj7206]

@@AodinValar in the noobula you can only get D rated modules and they hardly have any ships, also it's incredibly hard to make money

[@isziahs5951]

@@AodinValar yeah I left Mawson to go to the Cubeo system for some reason, there are lots more ships and modules out there

[@Squidgy55]

I accidentally left the starter systems within the first hour of playing the game. I didn't know you can't get back so I was lost in space with a bog standard Sidewinder. A few hours later I was in a Cobra MkIII almost fully upgraded. Never looked back.

[@briand330]

I left and lost permit by accident. Had no idea and it was the a great thing. I too made quick credits and upgraded quick. Far more fun out beyond the noobula. I made my way to Eravate then Neto and that's where I've been running and mining etc. Its a good time.

[@1SevenCirclesDesign]

Wanted to play as a Guardian Angel, so naturally made Angel Station in Calhuacan my home. Also because it orbits the best named earthlike world: Stapled Peacock Flesh

[@colrewis8949]

I might be an idiot but I’m curious; what do you mean by guardian Angel?

[@1SevenCirclesDesign]

@@colrewis8949 Its one of the NPC factions in that system, you can get more from the Calhuacan system info in the galaxy map. Our squadron is affiliated with them.

[@Shrooblord]

I don't often _actually_ LOL from comments but I did from yours.

[@pilot_p4nzer]

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[@korivakvehiclesims3341]

Back when Asellus Primus was the starter system for new players, I drew a straight line from there towards the Coalsack (because of The Mote In God’s Eye), and set a waypoint on the last inhabited system along that line. And that’s how I came to be based out of Marusek Dock in Coastin system. It’s a nice Industrial Orbis close to the star and six of the tiniest little dust balls you’ve ever seen-most of them aren’t even spherical. But they’re my tiny dust balls...I First Mapped all six.

[@Failosaurus71]

System: V886 Centauri Station: Tanner City 1. Its proximity to Jameson Memorial makes it convenient for outfitting ships while not having that much traffic. 2. It's also gorgeous with the White Dwarf main sequence star. 3. V886 actually exists in our universe (as BPM 37093) and is theorized to be the largest diamond in the known universe. Since my pilot is a prolific trader/miner with over 3 billion in credits. He would definitely pick the largest diamond as his home. :p

[@wisn6327]

most if not all bubble star systems exist in our universe

[@fluffdegoss]

planet station or space station?

[@mikethespike056]

@@fluffdegoss It literally says city.

[@Uejji]

1:39 "axillary services" axillary: (adj) relating to the armpit

[@Getawhale]

I wanted to be helpful - I'm sure he's found it by now, but the word he wanted was "auxiliary" - or maybe even "ancillary" which means basically the same. You can see how this could be confused!

[@mrexists5400]

@@Getawhale no no, thats what he meant, my armpits have never been so well taken care of since visiting there

[@eric97909]

Hey bro, self care is important, can’t neglect any part of you, even your pits

[@sivvinod3187]

So I went there, 10/10 They gave me free massages

[@josefdangelo4774]

My home station is LHS 3505, Olivias City. I used to play a lot on Xbox and made friends with a group that called that their home, and I quickly fell in love with it. So many memories that when I got Elite on PC, I decided that my new CMDR was the older brother to my old one. I took a break and recently came back to Elite. The first thing I was go back to LHS 3505 and right before I made the jump all the nostalgia and memories hit at once and I won't lie when I say I shed a tear. It felt like coming back home after years away.

[@paulwitter7553]

LHS 20's Ohm City was my home station for a VERY long time. The outfitting is superb, missions are plentiful and at that time, there was in Interstellar Factors in the nearby station. But the biggest pluses are LHS 20's proximity to everything, including it being about equidistant to all of the engineers. Now, I'm based with my squadron.

[@uranumbnuts]

The discounts are pretty sweet there too. 🤣

[@j.vinton4039]

Ohm city is life. I’ve lived there for god knows how long. Everything is within one or two LY away and the discounts as you said are top notch.

[@Shib_Inu]

Gotta second Ohm City. It's been my base for a while. Good ships either at or nearby Ohm, and most modules can be found a jump or two away. It's also really close to some early-game engineers! 80ly to Felicity is pretty good!

[@olliewray1197]

Yes that was my home for my whole time in the game until I got elite, it has 15% discount too

[@felixfj007]

Interesting. I got my check-there-first station close by (HIP 20485) for buying modules and ship for cheap. Well, LYR space is nice.

[@BasicallyPie]

Me and a few of my friends started playing elite dangerous around the same time, and as we made our way through the bubble, we found CC Eri, along with a few profitable contracts. We always found ourselves coming back and, eventually, just made it our home port at Hire Port. I have since moved away, deep into imperial space, mostly for the lucrative mineral trade industry, but somehow even still, I always find my way back to Hire Port in CC Eri. No matter where I end up, Hire Port will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm curious if anyone else made it their home too.

[@kecklulz4737]

Alioth is a system with several space stations between all of them they sell every module and ship. It requires a permit but it is very easy to get and it is place in the alliance territory of space. Another amazing fact is it has a space station called Gotham park!

[@allieb7321]

5:00-5:04 Left-hand side of CMDR view: Wtf technique was that!?!? Flipping the pancake!! 😂

[@flow5tate346]

Dave Mirra's Flair manoeuver has gone a long way XD

[@smolchungus5647]

bruh

[@hunacean]

I'll try spinning that's a good trick

[@TheFurryMemelord]

Dude you freaking saved me. This video got recommended to me when I needed it the most. I was literally idle on the game thinking “Ugh I can’t find a station that has what I’m looking for” and then I find this at the very top of my recommended page. Thank you man you’re an interstellar life saver

[@andersbackman3977]

One note on Jameson station: It's name is a homage to the paper & pencil rpg Traveller which Elite borrows heavily from. The example character for making your own character in the rule books was named Captain Sir Alexander Lascelles Jamison, the different spelling I'm sure is intentional by Frontier.

[@clmedia5919]

Also, this was the name of the default player back in the original Elite.

[@CMTechnica]

LHS 20 LYR discount, no permit, and it *orbits* the bounty hunting ring planet, with a HazRez a short distance out. I turned down Jameson Memorial for it because the distance between station and the Rez site is only 2ls, give or take. Combat pilot's dreams, right down to options for outfitting and ships

[@yuthura7871]

yeah, lhs 20 is a sweet system to live in

[@theobserver2922]

The station I call home is Eddington refinery in LSE 239. I was getting a part for my newly purchased hauler, with dreams of exploration after spending quite some time scrounging up credits bounty hunting in Matet, the system where everyone starts at. I was just about back when I got the message saying my permit had been revoked, and I could no longer return to the systems I had spent so long in, meeting many fellow commanders along the way. I felt completely overwhelmed being thrown into the galaxy without warning. So I flew back to the station and accepted this new life. No matter what I’m doing, from bounty hunting to deep core mining, nothing ever feels complete without returning home. I know many commanders who share the same type of story with a variety of different systems.

[@Dan-lz1ix]

Good information. I've got over a 1,000 hours of time in ED and didn't know that about Jameson. Wow, I guess I could have saved a lot of credits over the past couple of years. Early in the game I would try to purchase things at a discount, and it always felt good saving credits, but after a while, I think one tends to become an impulse buyer. It would be nice to get my ships upgraded with everything I need at one station though, so I will probably be visiting Jameson today.

[@zakrent2000]

Stations controlled by li yong-rui have 15% discount on ships and for outfitting.

[@boiledelephant]

@@zakrent2000 And are the only source of Pack Hound missile lauchers.

[@maysinbell5765]

Tollan and LHS 215 are 2 incredibly convenient systems. With Sirius being 1 jump away, this easily coveres all 3 material traders. Spring Gateway (LHS 215) has 'almost' everything you need for your ships. Both often fall into conflict, have haz-res sites. 215 is riddled with high-grade emissions. Tollan even once held the record for deep-core mining before carriers launched. And it was my home system before Horizons

[@nahbreh9057]

Honestly, I hope to find a home station one day. Currently, I'm hopping from system to system (with the help of eddb), living that space trucker life. If anything, one station that I hold dear to my heart is Teller Ring, in Lauksa. It is where I consider I got my start, where I stumbled upon a lucrative trade route when I was under 20, maybe even 10 hours of gameplay, and even before I started using eddb. I flipped polymer for nine grand a ton in pure profit, and went from a Hauler, to a Type-6 in no time.

[@matt.p.6022]

Nice! I also discovered a nice trade earlier this week when I started playing, now making hundreds of thousands per 5 jump run between my home station and a refinery outpost. the type-6 has allowed me to snowball I think XD

[@devthecanadian775]

The best station in the game can be found in Orrere, go see what you can find ;)

[@nikelsad]

@@devthecanadian775 I've got interested via your comment, but slightly not enough to bother finding that system )

[@stevedickinson1503]

59 Year old revisiting Elite - played the original! Thanks for your help

[@Reinhard96]

My true home is Groombridge 34's Ford City. I know it's 75k ls from the arrival point, but doing trade runs to there really gave me that "space trucker" feel. Plus I noticed that those 50M wing missions pop up a lot there, and once I got my type 9 I could even run some of them all by myself. Ford City is usually Tritium hungry when it comes to the missions, and with a lot of the systems around Groombridge 34's economy specializing in Refineries, it makes for an excellent Tritium run mission base.

[@hollyhouse5808]

thank you for this!!I have been obsessed with playing this game for months now. I just finally got it downloaded today but I havent been able to get on yet. I dont know anyone or anything. lol. I have been watching these videos about it for months. It took awhile to get everything together that I needed for it. I REALLY wanted Horizons and I bought ED without it just today. I wish I had gotten the bundle and I dont know how that escaped me. Figuring all this stuff out with zero prior knowledge and not being computer savvy has been rough as hell. I am just obsessed with space and wanted to fly ships and go to other planets and walk them. If anyone out there wants a new friend let me know! lol

[@theaggressivesalesman2424]

dude add me if you're on PC. CMDR SAGBAG

[@gavanwhatever8196]

Horizons is being rolled into the base game at the end of the month.

[@hollyhouse5808]

@@theaggressivesalesman2424 I am on pc ....right on! I will do so asap...thank u! o god I am still trying to figure out how to set up my damn thrustmaster 16000...this is a colossal ordeal

[@hollyhouse5808]

@@gavanwhatever8196 I know! I have been so freaking stoked about that....I figured I would be off the launch pad by then...but here I still sit...if I ever get flying, Ill be crying tears of joy all the way to my first touchdown on some random faraway planet

[@gavanwhatever8196]

@@hollyhouse5808 I've just started playing in VR. It's so immersive! I'm using yoke, throttle and rudder pedals from flight Sim at the moment but I've got a HOTAS on order and I've bought a car seat from a wrecker to build into a cockpit. It's nuts! Also VoiceAttack. I just say the instruction (e.g. 'deploy gear') and it does it. Keyboard not required. Just get into it. Training missions are a good start and no risk. Then play solo (the npcs can get a little frisky but it's still pretty easy), until you are ready for Open. See you in space!

[@danielsmith6782]

My home station is Artemis Lodge in Celaeno. Out in the Pleiades with great mining rings and selling stations close by. Extremely lucrative trade routes in the area and the majority of commanders out there are lore adventurers and thargoid hunters so running in open allows the opportunity to actually meet commanders without much risk. Plus its just really awesome to run into the random peaceful thargoid.. But I do also have ships prestaged in Sol, Achenar,Argue, 78 Ursae Majoris, Brestla, and White Sun.

[@andrewpena9041]

Yesterday I just bought my first Anaconda and I made ELITE TRADER!

[@rylertufo7230]

Congratulations

[@Erskaa]

Currently have my home station in Laksak at Rotsler Station. I do some mining for void opals and other stuff and they buy those for a lot currently. Yesterday Void opals sold for over 600k each

[@torvahnys]

I chose Ray Gateway in Diaguandri after watching a "Picking a home station" video by CMDR Exigeous. That was 2 years ago and I still call Ray Gateway home. I love the discounts in Li Yong Riu territory. Every ship I own was bought in or around Ray Gateway.

[@the_OG1893]

Me too. But I wish it was somewhere cool like Lave where the podcast/radio comes from

[@thewilberforce]

Same here. Happy about the choice.

[@saffieification]

i went to Ray Gateway to pick up some modules for my 2nd python..... haha thousands of hours later.....

[@terminatoor257]

I got this game back in 2016 I'm just now getting into it in 2020 hope there still is a player base with all the cool things they've added really glad to see it's still around and active

[@thetitan6578]

My home is Big Pappa's Station in Andhrimi. Great station, hidden in an asteroid belt and home to good trade missions and bounty hunting as well as mining. I feel like an outlaw every time I return to it after a long venture out in space.

[@DNH17]

Cool... feels an ad from a Pirate, to scam ppl and assault their ships ;)

[@thetitan6578]

@@DNH17 That's pretty much the jist of it. but my pirate days are over, until i get the cutter...

[@Majima_Nowhere]

There was a bounty hunting CG in a system called Kaushpoos back in 2015 or 2016, I went there in a Cobra 3 fresh out of the Old Worlds and 8 years later I'm still there. The main station is 20ls from drop-in, outfitting is great (and what you can't buy in-system, you can usually find in Wolf 318 2 lightyears away), multiple HazRES in system, pristine metallic rings in HIP 43296 close by, plenty of BGS and Powerplay work to be had as well. And possibly best of all, it only sees about 10 CMDRs pass through daily. Even though I have a fleet carrier and can realistically make any system my home, I keep going back to Kaushpoos.

[@MatheusKlSch]

Mine is Miller Depot on Barnard's Star. Close to the Solar System, controlled by Hutton's Orbital Truckers Cooperative. It's almost on middle of the bubble and there's tasks for every career path. However missions from there don't pay much.

[@Captain_Brandon]

Same I settled there when I realized I couldn’t reach sol until I got the permit. It will always be my first home.

[@JoeyDee86]

Well, you just saved me a bunch of frustration. I haven’t played Elite in years and came back for giggles the other day. Was getting a bit frustrated going around finding the right load out. Had no idea Jameson Station has everything. Now I’m gonna head that way so I can decide how I want my ship set up. Thanks! :P

[@melgordon5278]

I'd recommend Griffith's Horizons in the Ruchbah system. Though it doesn't have much in the way of utility, it's a beautiful system. With Griffith's Horizons itself orbiting a dark volcanic planet, with gorgeous icy rings, all lit up by a stunningly blue A-class star. My character is a retired veteran explorer who's logged hundreds of thousands of lightyears on him, ranked Elite, in all but combat. It's quite in Ruchbah, away from the craziness of the more major planets in the pilots federation. While being quite it's also pretty, which means a lot to an explorer like me. So I imagine my character lives there, because it's almost a pocket of deep space lying in the bubble.

[@niewod]

Nice. Added to the "To visit" list

[@AmosTheTalented]

I just started playing about a month ago. I haven’t unlocked any special privileges, so my favorite system is currently LHS 71. It’s a miner’s dream. It’s tucked away from pirates, but it neighbors several systems with specific commodity markets, including high tech.

[@Cameron39829]

You know I've never had a home station I've own the game for years and I've just moved from station to station job to job

[@sciohermetikum3902]

Yeah. I just do shitloads of bounty hunting and it feels like the missions just start to dry up after a time at a station.

[@readyforlol]

Same. I couldn't even tell you which was my starting system.

[@Enduring_Mantle]

I know what you mean. I try to choose a station to stay with, but the cargo missions will take me to other systems that have slightly better paying missions, so I get carried away.

[@AmandaFessler]

My first home outside of the tutorial area was Martin Station in Omicron Capricorni B. Laser mined my way to an Anaconda there, all the way from Sidewinder. Still has most of my ships. Would've stuck around too had I not learned that the fastest Fed grind was massacre stacking (I joined specifically for the Corvette). So I used some resources and found that San Yax had seven Fed factions targeting it for massacres, and had a low res site. Four of those were based in Tripitaka's Hale Gate station. Been my home ever since. Already have my Corvette, but I find that afk massacring with a Type-10 is a nice way to relax in the afternoon while doing work IRL. One day, I'll go back to Martin Station and mine enough platinum to become an elite trader. But for now, I'm just farming credits to pay for engineering or... something. I haven't started engineering yet tbh.

[@heavenparasolandmishakonig]

Baliunas Hub in Gende. Station has great outfitting, material trader, located near tech brokers. Orbiting around moon (of giant) with high amount of arsenic and antimony. Has gas giant with hazardous in less than couple of ls. Nearby systems have planets with highest concentration of the most rate materials. Provides 23+ mil worth missions

[@austinm5630]

Mine is Tiliala's Lament. It's a Fleet Operations Carrier type megaship inside the bubble that has a shipyard and such, but due to the unique circumstances regarding its creation, it does not move. Because it's a megaship (i.e. not a regular station) there is never a mail slot, but because it's a megaship (i.e. not an outpost station) there are plenty of large pads available.

[@ken_se1]

"Will you be my cousin, brother"

[@someolfellow1094]

My home is in Eravate, Cleve Hub. The system is fully capable of being traded within, an always booming economy, high security, plenty of stations on world and in orbit, and places to mine. Although it does lack ships and especially module's, I still think its a good starting ground for any pilot, and its not super high traffic either, you might run into a pirate or two, and sometimes they might even be players, but hey, its a nice place to live at.

[@EpicLinc]

I'm new and find you as one of three favorites for ED stuff so I hope you keep releasing content. Even if you do just updates since I've seen you've been around a while. Should have way more subs.

[@nuncapasaran9374]

This is a good guide, thanks! I think for me I have a simple approach to the game, in a way driven by nostalgia for the older games. The first ship I really wanted was the adder because it was one I remember being a part of my childhood. I really love the analogue look of it and even used it in place of the hauler for an intro short range explorer for the road to riches, even though it's worse at it. Simply because it's cooler to me. The other ship I really want when I make a few more space bucks is the Python because again, it was one I recall very fondly from older elites. I could honestly just live in those two ships, though I may end up making my way through others for the fun of experiencing them. So I'm not sure I would base my home station on access to every ship and module, more likely it'd just be a place I thought was cool for my own reasons. But that's the good thing about this game. People can do basically anything that suits them, and I completely get why a lot of players love that station. I also came at it from an oldschool Freelancer player. Noteably there's a lot more player activity and interaction in that game, and Elite is more low key, but I still like it for what it is. Cheers!

[@ghostofelysium3848]

LHS 3505, Olivas City. It has decent outfitting, good mining opportunities, and I get to say that I live in the Olive Garden.

[@Meyobrin]

Stone Enterprise (Rakapila) - When I first had the game I was a little overwhelmed by everything, and didn't really have anyone else who was interested in the game long enough to join me. So it became one of those play a bit, lose focus, and uninstall for a few months-years. Eventually, one time when I came back to do anything more than drift around in a Sidewinder for more than an hour, I noticed a Community Event going on. Defeat and Submit Pirate Bounties over in Rakapila, to help stabilize a conflict happening with the local Rakapila Silver Mafia and the People's Rakapila Progressive Party. Excited, I contacted my former allies who equally fell flat trying to find their place in the stars, and with a concrete goal we started skulking the resource extraction sites of the local two Gas Giant's Rings. Easy credits turned to quick ship advancements. From Cobra to Viper to Vulture. Suddenly with a nice amount of credits in all our pockets, we were free to play around and explore content we hadn't had the funding to do lucratively. One friend continued on advancing their combat skills, until they fell into the niche of fighting Thargoids wherever they cropped up. Another eventually got lost in Exploration, and recently finally arrived to Sag A*. While I got to enjoy experimenting with Mining, eventually making my first triple digit million in Void Opals. If it wasn't for Stone Enterprise, and that chance Community Event happening? We all might have never gotten off the ground floor, and out of our Sidewinders. We never would have gotten our breakout chance at the stars, Proper. For that? Rakapila, Stone Enterprise, is my Home. o7

[@matthewnewton6229]

I’m currently at the Neche system, Descarte station. Good ships and modules, and it’s close to nanomam and sol. It’s where I built my first deep core miner and finally started making money. Plus there’s an engineer nearby who specializes in FSD’s so my diamondback explorer is over 40 Ly per jump. Also bought my first anaconda there which has been a goal of mine from the beginning

[@oisnowy5368]

Mine is Chelomey Orbital in Cubeo. Well that gave away my affiliation quickly. Or perhaps not, I doubt too many people know all the capitals. I love going home, there are some huge shipyards in front of the station. Always makes for nice sight-seeing and the station staff is always very friendly and respectful.

[@Tyrranis]

Right now, I consider my home station to be the Hand, in Ashtart. The VIP missions there were instrumental in getting my first Medium-size ship (Alliance Chieftain), and while it didn't offer the internal I wanted to use in it (a Business-class Passenger Cabin), a nearby system did.

[@DNH17]

I want to use that one and maybe only that one because of space it has but also because it reminds me of Alien movie type of human ships...

[@matts.8563]

Out here with Tilian. Great home for access to some good mining spots in the bubble. Started there when void opal mining was big. It was a great place to make loads in just 1-2 jumps. And it still is! There are definitely better stations, but it has proven to be a pretty decent place to stay.

[@Lupinicus1664]

An early home for me was Jefferies Port, Ugrivirii. Decent outfitting and a range of Res sites literally on the doorstep, excellent for first steps in bounty hunting.

[@Maks2103]

When I just started playing, I used to live on Baker's Prospect in Asellus Primus, then moved to LHS 3006, Lenoard Nimoy Station. There were even void opals in the planet's ring, right there, and for some time I could sell these right at my home station. Everything was good, I've done missions for my faction, but then the station was captured by New Pilots Initiative. I've tried to prevent that, but couldn't do much on my own... Had to move to another system, still miss my old home thoguh - I loved that place.

[@clearmelody6252]

". . . even slave trading." Me, the newbie: Wait . . . Ya wanna run that by me, again?

[@animalm4st3r]

the imperium uses slaves, thus they have slave trading

[@lick816]

@@animalm4st3r There are other, very unanimously illegal slaves that are relatively uncommon right? Sorry, bit of a newbie to the game.

[@cobaliufloof4198]

@@lick816 Imperial Slaves have rights, and are legal in any Imperial system not controlled by Aisling Duval. Basic Slaves don't have any rights, and are illegal in all systems.

[@redwastaken3363]

Swigert Port in Chowei was my first home. It was the very definition of "good enough" and I still love it.

[@wolfhunter98]

Haha 5:28 "Where you be dude? I be... a second."

[@johnpooky84]

Tanaka Terminal, in LHS 2088. It's one jump away from a white dwarf, it orbits a ringed gas giant with great spots for bounty hunting (also great for mining), it's one jump away from a system with Interstellar contacts (for when I have bounties from other systems), and most importantly, I met my best friend in that system.

[@arkuos8361]

Personally, I found my home in Deciat Loved being able to wander over to Farseer to get my ship upgraded, as Im more an explorer

[@tistw4262]

Don’t forget the fleet carriers

[@Khunvyel]

Since my gang and I are relatively new to Elite Dangerous (give or take 3 casual weeks) there are plenty of things to think about to have the perfect home station. I for one, don't care much for availability of all ships and modules. Because frankly, you're only going to buy a ship once. If you lose it, you pay insurance and get it back like it was. As with the many fetch-or-move commodities missions we're running, we keep preferring to go to stations that are close to the sun, and not like 2000+ LS out. I'd rather take another two jumps than slowpoking through a system. We basically learned something new in the game every day from various aspects, so my humble list of things for the perfect station [for trade mission running] would look like this: 1) Main station very close to the sun. Sometimes the enemies you get on trade missions don't catch you because you're already at the station before they can attempt to interdict you. You can even hit the brakes hard, draw half a circle, make the aggressor overshoot you and then go back on track because the pirate has to be properly aligned BEHIND you. 2) Main station having a market that often times wants high value goods like palladium, gold, etc for nice payouts (apparently the highest payout the game can give you is exactly 50mill for a wing mission, for some measly 1600 units of palladium. 35Mill for 1200 units of gold is also nice enough). In the end, travel time is king, and if you can complete a wing mission in a single jump, that's very useful. 3) Having heterogenous markets in systems around your station. That way you can basically get any goods you need just one or two jumps away. This comes in handy if you want to do circle missions. Fetch something to main station, and main station brings something in return. That way you never fly empty, make far more money than with regular commodity trading and you increase standings on all ends for even better missions. 4) Having those stations around you with the goods available also naturally be as close to the sun as possible. 5) Main station (and surrounding go-to markets) having a high level economy. I noticed when we helped out a station in "famine" state, that we get far less payout than what we usually would get for the same goods. The more missions you run for them, the better their economy will get. So if you look at the pip on the top right of station services, you might even be able to push them into boom territory. 6) The aforementioned area of stars is ideally densely packed enough that a Type 9 does not need more than two jumps (ideally of course one jump) to get anywhere with a full belly. Although a CargoConda only carries about half of a Type 9, it has more than half the jump range which makes it often times the better choice if you're in an area where the stars are not that packed enough. And it's easier to avoid interdictions. When you're hit 3 times in a row in a Type 9, that's a lot of traveltime lost :\ 7) Main station being high security. If you for some reason don't get out the interdiction "because Type-9", you will survive in a fully cargo specced ship even against a deadly Anaconda sent your way because the police is there fast enough to help you out, making the Anaconda switch targets because you're not aggressing. Ideally, surrounding systems are also high security for circle run missions. 8) If you have a Megaship of a certain kind (I honestly forgot which and can't check right now) in system, that's basically the best way for continuous wave-combat experience. You don't have to pick a side and lose standings, because they're always wanted pirates and your own team is the system security force. You'll be raking up good bounty, there are always plenty enough ships for a full wing to enjoy hunting, and your combat rank is also going to shoot up nicely enough. 9) If you have an ice ring in your main system you can even try yourself on mining those low temperature diamonds and see how that works out. Sadly there are no wing missions for that as far as I could see, but if there are enough rings in system you might be able to grab some of the mining missions of which you can't buy the ore in a neighbouring system and give it a whirl that way. Some may get the kicks out to defend the miners against hostiles actively :) 10) Not required for the perfect station, but don't forget to donate some money to all agents in the stations to get better paying missions more quickly! Also, with point 8 and 9, it's fairly easy to level up your crew NPC in a Fighter. I don't know yet if running combat missions are improving the security rating of a system, and if the security rating is based on the average of security status on the factions available in station/system. If someone knows that, dropping me a comment would be greatly appreciated :) All things considered, we've been fairly lucky when we moved away from the tutorial zone that we set up camp in Ehecatl, just one jump out of Matet. That one checks many of the boxes that we figured out are good for a home system. We based out of Michelson though, not Hackworth, sorry Sepulcher :P I'm curious myself where I would go to find the perfect home station that meets all my criteria, but that's just another level of "search and explore" that will eventually come in time :) We'll be milking those agents until we have several fully fitted big, autonomous exploration ships to start venturing into the blue yonder, cartographing and exploring far away from the bubble. Then, those ships become our home :) - Fly Dangerous, Commanders. o7

[@jerichohasfun]

I had ray gateway as my home station for most of my time playing (approaching 800 hours) and I didn't know it was popular or had a discount on its items. I just liked it cause of its simple name and access to early to mid game missions.

[@KubaxKristallmond]

Greeboski's Outpost, Phiagre. System is handcrafted (aka anything inside can be changed by FDev) contrary to a regular System that was generated by the game. The Outpost is actually a Orbis Station with two Habitat Rings and the Interior has Palm Trees and a very clean, almost marble look to it. Which is noteworthy because the Station itself has a Industrial economy, but the interior is what you'd normally only see at a Station with Service economy.

[@chaz2000000]

i stay at Hand Ring in Hsi Ho for no reason other than the station sounds neat

[@Norralin]

Aditi, of course! Imperial - fine stations and a decent base for explorations!

[@joyce_rx]

My home port is Freeport in LP-93-somethingsomething Only for the insane painite prices and its 100 ly distance from the nearest double painite spot. Easy money

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

I am happily living at I Sola Prospect thanks to this video. Tearin' it up in my SRV and having a blast! Thank you!

[@SepulcherGeist]

Careful not to drive onto a landing pad! They don't take kindly to that. Learned the hard way.

[@tf2pyro70]

Rn I’m new to the game so I made my home Alino because it has good missions, ships, and modules for sale and is imperial but near federal systems. I also love Corn Pin because of the system’s name

[@RandomToxie]

My old Home system was Rhea, lots of good trade missions, and an Agri home base is always good. When all else fails, come back home with a load of Biowaste and pick up some Tea or Veggies when you leave. Current home base is with my squadron Dragons of Grendel in the Grendel system. Kind of an odd place, with the main station in orbit around a ringed Brown Dwarf star, but some good systems around the neighborhood.

[@nojembre]

I've been at Sharp Dock in Andel for as long as I can remember, that is always where I return after playing.

[@lwainwright44]

im 4 years late but its also my home too. Wish it was a little closer to the star but oh well

[@Beery1962]

Bennett Gateway in Okinura is my home base. A beautiful starport with plenty of ships and equipment for sale, and lots of missions going to and from the system. You don't get that in the unlocked systems.

[@williamtempelmann852]

Solo Orbiter in Altair, great combat, good trade, close to sol and the rest of Zach Attacks core systems, plus its got a kick ass name and an AMAZING bright blue star

[@EB-fc2mp]

Jeffries Station - Ugrivirii Reason: it's where my friend and I first got ourselves going in the game. It has sentimental value, but it's also good for bounty hunting - there's low, high and hazardous resource extraction sites literally right next to the station. It's a control system for Arissa Lavigny-Duval, so you get more for your bounties too. It has good trade routes around it. It's not too far from my favourite mining system, which I do not share with anyone, and it gives good legal gray-area missions. It even has a manufactured material trader.

[@goatythecringeyone7686]

The bois living in Eravate:

[@ArtOfDuane]

Current home base is Garratt Station at Frey, and has been since early in my career as a miner as it offers great mining outfitting, a good solid selection of mining and cargo ships, and at one point the system had a painite hotspot but it appears to be gone now. I made a lot of my early credits in a really basic mining shuttle doing mining missions for the station and hauling ore to neighboring stars.

[@lenababiarz2651]

What is my ? I'm homeless at the moment, but I jus start playing ED H ( 2nd day ). I would like focus on solo play as ...miner, because I would like to be a business woman :D

[@Shadow77999]

Woah

[@Yukanhayt-Mhenow]

May your path be lit by many sun's!

[@norfangl3480]

That last word you uttered is gonna get you a lot of space traffic

[@ns88ster]

@@norfangl3480 Only from hungry simps.

[@hollyhouse5808]

Hi Lena! I am just starting myself and have been neck deep in setting everything up for what seems like an eternity...if I ever get off the damn launch pad, I would love to be your space friend ! I dont know people yet out there...cheers!

[@remielpollard787]

Garratt Station, Frey. Back in the day, it had the single best pristine metallic ring a very short supercruise distance away, with some pristine ice mining (for diamonds) in Durogin only 10ly away, and was the most convenient of its kind to stage for. Plus, there are a stack of very high value local trade routes, and a bunch of federal missions in the station itself, and a nearby surface port, all of which offer an excellent variety of very high value wing missions of a wide variety, not just 'source and return', which I actually hate. It's my traditional home now, even though it doesn't have the same value as before due to mining changes, but it is the bed I and my friends made.

[@gandalfdergraue7442]

It was the day I discovered the planet Vulcan with the Leonard Nimoy station, I knew I had found my Home Station.

[@adrianwilliams6577]

Home right now is Meech Dock in Cemiess, I was in Dromi and watched a KZbin video on Tritium trading, I had no idea that travelling too far from the newbie area to make some credits would get me banned from it. I stumbled upon Maridal and began grinding there when Galnet pointed out a burning station in Cemiess, I headed over as I'd heard about burning stations on the grape vine. By the time the station stopped burning and I'd rescued a bunch of passengers I'd built up more reputation with the Empire than the Federation, I ended up staying. Saying that I've gone back to the Federation for now to rank up, although I'm a King in the Empire I'm just a warrant officer in the Federation.

[@Nintendo_Gamer1889]

How do you set your home base? Is it something that you can ACTUALLY select or more of a mindset that you have to remember?

[@tristanalvira9841]

I have the same question

[@reniust]

It's a mindset. The place where you are going to keep all your ships and where you think is the best place to stay (Location). You could use that location as a strategic point in the bubble for example.

[@Nintendo_Gamer1889]

@@reniust Dang.....that seems like it should be a feature in the game to help you remember. Guess a person better get back to their "Home Planet/Base" before they take a long break so they don't forget where everything is. Thanks for the info.

[@reniust]

@@Nintendo_Gamer1889Don't worry, you can't forget about your "home station" because you can see your ships in the galaxy map (Where they are) wherever you have them for example, I don't know if you understand me :c also you can put a mark in your "Home Station" so you will be able to recognize it immediately :) But as you say, there is nothing specific that can tell you "THIS IS YOUR HOME STATION" you just have it in mind.

[@higharctin-tin9144]

As a newer player I've called 'Ali Rings' in the Kokojina system as my home. Good access to a variety of activities, and good supply of ship modules too!

[@IPanonima17]

Garay terminal at Deciat. we got an engineer, ice rings some decent high tech systems nearby and its perfect for a trip to the pleyades.

[@teddypicker8799]

Mine was Deciat too until a couple days ago where I got ganked by some guy in a FDL lol. Lost my NPC SLF pilot that I'd levelled from harmless to expert even though I asked him to let me go respec and then fight (no reply). Not mad at the guy or anything because PVP is part of the game but didn't really wanna bump into him again after that

[@jchoneandonly]

Yeah I got interdicted and ganked at deciat trying to bring my explorer in for engineering

[@Jake-um4gg]

yeah lots of Fully engineered PvP players just gank new players or people in unengineered ships in Deciat. Bad place to set up camp if you’re not into that.

[@andrewchapman2039]

I make a home in Radwar Enterprises 1941, out in the Carthage System. Good imperial presence, a local player faction, and it being first on the list makes it so much easier to target quickly in the market compare screen and on the nav panel.

[@superscatboy]

How to choose a home station: 1. Choose Jameson Memorial 2. Stop choosing

[@subject-038]

What if you don’t have elite? What would be the second choice?

[@jupiter9049]

@@subject-038 he talks about it all vid

[@rafal9ck817]

@@subject-038 Ray Gateway i suppose atleast i go there

[@why-is9gh]

yk this vid helped me find hack worth and what made it better was that it was only a few jumps from my old home so thanks

[@AkashWShah]

Hold up Ehecatl was a popular system? I was always hanging around there because of the surplus of missions taking me there, I had no idea so many people called it home!

[@nekoimouto4639]

Same, i got a bunch of good missions there when i was still starting out so i bookmarked it. Didnt know it was a popular system.

[@phantomxz9140]

That's my home system about a half-year, and I'm quite surprised that it's popular :)

[@mbrsart]

It took me a long time to leave the area around Asellus Primus after starting at Baker's Prospect. I hopped back and forth between Beagle 2 Landing in the aforementioned system and Azeban Orbital in Eranin, until I finally settled on Dahan Gateway for my first proper home station. I think the reason I picked it was there were some decent bounty hunting opportunities pretty close to the station. I'm also pretty fond of Whitson Hub in Meliae, which has been my go-to outfitting station for mining. I'm currently based out of Jameson Memorial and I have a little bachelor pad in Ohm City (LHS 20), but honestly none of those feel quite like home. I was legitimately excited when Dahan Gateway was in the top 5 recently for Void Opal prices, and I dropped everything and headed back.

[@danielb270]

Eravate: Clave Hub is so close to the star, the process of turning away from star results in the loop of shame if you have not locked on it ahead of time

[@hollyhouse5808]

the loop of shame!! lolol I love it!!

[@jps14tube]

The 'loop of shame' is a misnomer - it's often the quickest way to slow down and dock.

[@danielb270]

@@jps14tube Not in the Type 9, Type 10,, Anaconda, Federal Corvette, and probably other ships with slow pitch. Those bastards turn so slowly you practically enter an orbit around the station. Also, the fastest way to approach the station is always to go full throttle until the timer is below 8 seconds, then reduce throttle to 75% (this is bindable, or you could use stepped throttle) - straight path, no skill required. (If you are feeling fancy, you can try to modify your approach vector, this requires some skill)

[@jps14tube]

@@danielb270 Sure - I'd give you that.

[@vangobango7627]

Starting off, Fadlan Works over in LHS 463 was my home. Was a lost new pilot 'til I fell into the system and was able to run trade missions back and forth between Fadlan and Vries during a trade boom. Since then I left the Sidewinder and worked through the Viper Mk3, Python and am now on my Type 9. Feel like I should return one day

[@crawling0in0my0skin]

My Home Station is George Lucas. thats not even a joke

[@joshua41175]

Rare traders gang.

[@PoopDrawings]

I just found this station last night :)

[@Meshkarain]

Do you dock with George Lucas regularly?

[@EddieFreak]

Just found Gareth Edward Park lol I thought I was trippin

[@sivvinod3187]

Hello there

[@vegisamalzero3681]

I usually end up coming back to hackworth ring. I heard someone say something about hackworth orbital, and I ended up mistaking hackworth *ring* for it, and I ended up using it for trading missions. Theres really no reason to use it, trade routes are terrible compared to other stations, its poorly stocked, and it's in the middle of bumfuck nowhere (just barely outside the power play areas, but still in the bubble). But I'm sentimental about it, as I got both my first type 6 and type 7 there.

[@Litterbugtaylor]

Ugrivirii, Jefferies port, one of the finest combat and bounty hunting systems and a strong agricultural-industy-extration trade and even a couple jumps from the imperial heartland of Kamadhenu to do do powerplay and is basically always in a boom state. Even has 2 imperial majestic class in drydock just outside the station.

[@officialgood-boy8946]

Eravate, the neighbor system of an LHS system my commander started at. although Jameson might be my new home since I'm elite, i didn't realize this system was a thing or i may have moved earlier.

[@donloder1]

haha same, it's the starting system when i started playing back before horizon.

[@TheNeognostic]

Eravate was my home system during my first playthrough of Elite nearly 2 years ago 😂

[@airtylerb]

I just got started and ray gateway is where I call home. Offers a lot with very little requirements to access and has made learning the game much easier.

[@AmbroseBoaBowie]

“That poor sap....... WAIT A SECOND!”

[@cactusmanofdestiny3708]

At first I lived in Romanenko estate, but the mission guy of the Labor party hates me so I moved to LHS 3006 to absorb the beauty of Vulcan and it’s station, Leonard Nimoy. But when Odessy drops the first place I’m going is Baker, the planet Romanenko orbits. It’s a beautiful ocean planet with a moon, Trooper. Real tourist destination. Just in case you wanna see it it’s in Opala. To me it seems like a regional capital.

[@Frozennova18]

I'm just starting up Elite Dangerous, and after getting myself a little lost, I found myself 3 jumps away from Ehecatl, so I guess I'm going to try my luck with Hackworth.

[@kushking949]

I am new to I cant play any other game right now

[@Frozennova18]

@Danny M just recently I went out to LHS 3675 to get parts to make a cruise ship and I think Broderick Gateway is my new favorite location

[@Bean41]

Something I would recommend to all new CMDRs (or old ones looking for a new home) is to watch several videos like this and cross every entry off of your list. Not that these suggestions are bad, these stations are on a list because they’re popular and they’re popular for a reason granted but it’s nice to have some quiet when you head home and not have to run the gauntlet just to dock. I’d highly recommend trying to find one on your own as it’s very gratifying to find a station that has the amenities you want without being told where to look. If I’m headed to my home station I know that no matter what gamemode I’m in I can fly to my station unimpeded as I’ve only ever seen one other CMDR in the 2 years I’ve lived there and he completely ignored me. Though I must confess I mostly live on my carrier now, just so easy to bring home with me wherever I may need it.

[@ZeusDilu]

Mine is Messerchmid Terminal in Mazahuanses, it's been my home for a long time since it orbits a planet with void opal hotspots. Now I'm looking for a station near painite places

[@ZeusDilu]

@Hudson Eisele nope, but I dont do void opals anymore if thats what the squadron is about lol

[@NinjaZXRR]

I have all my ships docked at that station. I've been living in colonia for a while. With one of my ships in Jaques station.

[@Dandroid_1]

Nowadays I don't really have a home base, but my first ever 'home' was the Cubeo system. It has an imperial capital ship dockyard, which is a cool place to visit, decent for wake scans too. It has 2-3 stations I think, haven't been there in 2 or 3 years now though. Overall it's nothing amazing, but it's where I ended up at first and it'll be the closest thing to a home for my pilot. Now though I constantly move around the bubble I typically stop in systems like, Sol, Achenar, Diaguarandi, Pleiades, Deciat, Alioth, etc though simply due to them being relatively major systems. More recently I've somehow ended up in the area around the Arjung system. No particular reason, not even sure how I got there, but it's got a few great economies, it's got sirius Corp 15% discounts and both empire and federal factions for people interested in rep. They have Imperial Cutters and Anacondas at 15% off, great place to buy ships.