I have to be an idiot cause there's no way this isn't super obious but

[evilsplat]

how in the 9 divines do I find a docking port? cause unless there's a mission way point random docking stations don't seem to count and how do I know which stations can be docked at anyway, half of the ones I went to had no docking points I could find at all despite having way points with names on them.

{if it helps I tried docking in the starting station and in that super industrial zone I can't remember the name of cause that was where my first mission took me.}

[Hot Poggers]

Anywhere you can dock will be marked in purple. You should be able to zoom in on the map to see what services each system provides. Merchants and jobs are going to be in the main station which should be the most prominent building in the area, usually ending with 'Station'.

Edgeburgh, the super industrial place I think you're talking about, is kind of misleading in that the big middle station (Forge Station, maybe) isn't something you can dock to, at least I didn't. There's another station in the way back (might have Hall in the name) that was the station I could dock to.

You have to get pretty close to them for the purple docking port icons to show up.

There are some areas that are marked but don't have any docking, at least not in the brief period of time that I've been playing. They usually sound like the names of corporations, like 'Pharmaceuticals' or 'Technology' as an example.

In the first system you can dock at New Liberty Station and the other one that I can't remember the name of but it's the first place you go to after repairing your ship in the intro.

[lnomsim]

I haven't been to later sectors yet, but in first sectors, usually you can dock at the biggest station in the center of the sector.

Some docks have a "store basket" icon (for stores), or a "checklist" icon (for jobs). Those are the one you can dock at.

There are also fuel stations, body paint workshop and upgrades workshops, but you don't need to dock at those, just stop in front of the gate in the green area.

[evilsplat]

Originally posted by Hot Poggers:

Anywhere you can dock will be marked in purple. You should be able to zoom in on the map to see what services each system provides. Merchants and jobs are going to be in the main station which should be the most prominent building in the area, usually ending with 'Station'.

Edgeburgh, the super industrial place I think you're talking about, is kind of misleading in that the big middle station (Forge Station, maybe) isn't something you can dock to, at least I didn't. There's another station in the way back (might have Hall in the name) that was the station I could dock to.

You have to get pretty close to them for the purple docking port icons to show up.

There are some areas that are marked but don't have any docking, at least not in the brief period of time that I've been playing. They usually sound like the names of corporations, like 'Pharmaceuticals' or 'Technology' as an example.

In the first system you can dock at New Liberty Station and the other one that I can't remember the name of but it's the first place you go to after repairing your ship in the intro.

thank you that makes so much more sense if I can zoom the map, I was wondering how I was suppoed to navigate with just a world map and no system map

[evilsplat]

Originally posted by lnomsim:

I haven't been to later sectors yet, but in first sectors, usually you can dock at the biggest station in the center of the sector.

Some docks have a "store basket" icon (for stores), or a "checklist" icon (for jobs). Those are the one you can dock at.

There are also fuel stations, body paint workshop and upgrades workshops, but you don't need to dock at those, just stop in front of the gate in the green area.

oh ok so they have symbols in front of them then, makes much more sense now lol