Station Type = What?

[Furry Eskimo]

So there aren't that many models for stations in this game, but do these represent what the station has for services? Perhaps what it sells or the deals it offers? And can I tell what kind of station I'm aproaching using my navigation menue without opening it for full details?
Perhaps some are more likely to have a black market available. The in game tutorials are really lacking in terms of explaining content, and the meanings of visuals. For example I can't tell easily where I've already traveled to, and the reason to put energy into "system" is never explained (although I understand it boosts shield regen rate)

[SeraphinicIna]

The station type just determines how they look like, not what they will have. Coriolis, Orbis, Ocellus and Outpost are the only types available.

And 4 pips in systems doesn't boost only the regen rate, it also makes the shields harder to break (marginally stronger)

[Furry Eskimo]

What do you mean by "Coriolis, Orbis, Ocellus and Outpost"?
How they look? Part of the reason I've been driven to ask is I keep finding a lot of these small stations and they almost ever seem to have a repair bay, shipyard, or extensive outfitting station. Dunno if I'm in a bad part of space but it's not very rewarding hanging out here

[Furry Eskimo]

I think I know what you mean, but I'm stationed at a hub sooo, it's not on your list

[VanguardMk1]

Coriolis stations are the cube stations, Orbis are the large stations with rotating rings and Ocellus are basically the Orbis stations without the large rotating rings. The small stations are the Outposts, those never have a shipyard. It depends on the Outpost if it has a repair, restock and/or black market function.

[SeraphinicIna]

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Station

Here are the types listed and how they look like.

[Furry Eskimo]

Cool, thanks so much.

[Furry Eskimo]

Wait, this isn't all of them.. The wiki is missing the hub I was just at. A huge brown structure

[Edelweiss ✿]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Wait, this isn't all of them.. The wiki is missing the hub I was just at. A huge brown structure

that is indeed all of them. Note they can come in different colors and have slight variation

[Furry Eskimo]

Ok, so variations do exist though.

[Edelweiss ✿]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Ok, so variations do exist though.

Yes. Anarchy systems have many ports with broken or flickering lights, paint falling off. Wealthy systems can have stations with waterfalls and rivers, palm trees, while paint. There are pirate outposts, science outposts, commercial outposts. There's stations with many rings, one ring, no rings.

[Furry Eskimo]

Neat. I was wondering why some ports had red skulls floating around them. They didn't treat me any different