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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"Will you be my cousin, brother"

1:55 Jameson Memorial Station (Shinrarta Dezhra): Jameson has every ship available at all times at a 10% discount but you need a permit to be able to access the station, so not a good option for beginers. 3:33 I Sola Prospect Planetary Station (Brestla): It also has all the ships but are more expensive and takes more time to land there. 4:49 Ray Gateway Station (Diaguandri): A popular spot for bountyhunters (be careful if you have a juicy bounty on you) 5:46 Abraham Lincoln (Sol): The home of humanity, a really populated station and system in general 6:37 Jaques Station (Colonia): For a long time it was one of the farthest stations outside of the main buble, if you like exploring and selling to the cartographers, try traveling there and maybe you will discover a system and have the honor to name it. 7:36 Explorer´s Anchorage (Stuemeae): Closest station to the black hole at the center of the galaxy, a good place also for explorers or deep space miners.

As a fellow Ehecatl home player, I have to say... we had the same idea. I may or may not also be a big Warhammer 40K fan, and the dust planet with the gigantic crater looks too similar to a Forge World and my entire fleet is based on the faction that uses them. I occasionally just go to visit the crater, taking images on the ‘Eye of Ehecatl’ as I’ve come to coin it. For the Machine God. For the Omnissiah. For Humanity!

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.

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.

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

"Will you be my cousin, brother..?" LMAO.

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

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

Just started playing Elite: Dangerous this week and have pretty much settled in to Farkas Dock, in the AY Indi system, as my home base. I immediately veered off in the opposite direction as soon as I had full control of my first Sidewinder, and stumbled upon Soper Hub as I was looking for routes to trade in and make some credits. I learned that there was a famine going on and many missions that revolved around helping out with the relief. With the nearby systems providing tech and agriculture with quite a few viable loops, I've built a fair bit of change. The local mobsters have appreciated the coffee I've imported, resulting in them taking control of Farkas Dock with the caffeine high and even giving me practice with smuggling missions. I may not stay there forever, but it'll always feel like home.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Before I got Elite rank and moved to Jameson Memorial I was based at Balandin Gateway in Rhea. There is a federal military installation right outside which provides great security when hauling a bunch of void opals. Also just a great station for federal rank grinding. However the station doesn’t have an abundance of ships or modules to sell in the shipyard so you do have to travel a lot to find exactly what you are looking for. Still I loved the station as my home and I go back to visit my buddy who is still working on getting his Elite rank.

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

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

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

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.

If you're going to live in Colonia, don't base out of Jacques. Us Colonians rarely ever go to Jacques, except when flying some tourists around. There's nothing at the station itself, it really is a tourist spot where all the commanders dock, take pictures, then fly off to Sag A*. If you really want to live in Colonia, try Colonia Dream in Ratraii, TolaGarf's Junkyard in Kojeara, or Bolden's Enterprise in Tir. All of them have material traders, while Colonia Dream has an amazing shipyard. Meanwhile, Bolden's Enterprise is in the same system as one of the four engineers in Colonia. TolaGarf's Junkyard is an asteroid base. Even then, if you're going to move to Colonia then you might consider joining one of the many player groups out there. Colonia really was built by player groups, so if you join one then base out of their own home planetary base or their home station. Personally, I'm based out of Phoenix Harbor in Centralis, the home of the Colonia Citizens Network.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bois living in Eravate:

Early on, I discovered that Mitra Estate in Farack is run by a brewery. Have never found a good enough reason to move.

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

I'm missing a very popular station near Epsilon-Eridae named "Babylon 6" !

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!

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.

Perrin ring in the lumbla system is where I frequent the most, for some reason they have every module I need at every time

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

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

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.

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.

I just realized you sound pretty similar to TheWolfPit.... "I find stations so YOU, THE PEOPLE, don't have to"

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

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.

Lol, Ehecatl and Hackworth orbital is also my home rn. Just kinda the first system I jumped too outside the pilots federation space. Colonia sounds pretty cool tho, gonna have to check it out.

*looks at ehecatl, sees 12/15 ships stored there* yeah I think that's my home currently...

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

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.

My first home station was Frey/Garatt Station. The first place where i found a DBX to buy, plus pristine metal rings, plus Bhoto System nearby with pristine Ice rings. Loads of mining took place back when mining missions were more lucrative than just selling all the stuff.

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.

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

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.

I love Kipling orbital on Pleiades nebula. I bought my Dolphin there, lot of amazing views in the region.

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.

“That poor sap....... WAIT A SECOND!”

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!

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.

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

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.

My first home station was McKee Ring in GD 219. It had a corvette and a lot of good outfitting parts. Plus, it bought void opals for a crap ton.

My original home base was Kurland Hub in Belarsuk. Right up until I was killed BERY quickly during a wetwork mission and wound up 100 light years from anything Wolf Society. Now I’m sort of nomadic; and just go wherever my mission (or wing) takes me.

my home is scully-power station @ IX why? I'm not sure, was the first LYR station I found that wasn't too busy but is rather central in the bubble

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.

I've been in Denebola for most of my ED career, mostly because there's a hazres site 2LS from Dirac terminal, but also because it's pretty close to a neutron star (which I often use sort of like a bus stop)

Mine was at Bilfrost system once. There are good passengers routes to Ruhanti system. one needs 15 minutes to reach Ruhanti's stations though, but worth the time if you hauling 4 passengers cabins

Jameson Memorial it my home station. Best place for me. I was however ganked by an idiot here after I returned from a long exploration journey.

Until i unlock Jameson. My home is flade enterprises in lhs 28. Its where they have the Corvette im close to unlocking. So I've just kinda been operating out of it in the meantime

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

Home right now is Meech Dock in Cemiess, I was in Dromi and watched a KZfaq 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.

Humm I didn’t know i needed a home station, been just kinda wondering the galaxy

I Sola Prospect is like: WE NEED TO MAKE UP FOR EVERYTHING

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.

I spent some time working out of Azeban Orbital during the early days. One hell of a view, one of the closest-orbiting stations in the galaxy right off an Earth-Like world.