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So,i saw some Streams where the beginning Cmdrs are starting from a very nice placed Station.It hangs above an Ring.

My Question is,where can i find such a nice placed Station outside the starting Zone or is it just to bait new Players and let them drop when they are outside the starting Area?
 
There's definitely a good few stations in the Bubble (and elsewhere) that have really nice views. Sadly I can't remember the name of any off the top of my head (I'm really bad with names) but they certainly exist.

Edit:Artemis Lodge in Celeano

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My Question is,where can i find such a nice placed Station outside the starting Zone or is it just to bait new Players and let them drop when they are outside the starting Area?
There's two very nice ones in the Colonia region
- Mortimer's Charm in Kinesi - Orbis-style station a few kilometres over a rocky ring orbiting an ELW.
- Foster Terminal in Coeus - dockable megaship actually inside an icy ring around a gas giant.
(and three other ring-associated stations which are also pretty good)

The capability to add ring stations was introduced in 2.3, so you need stations added in the last two years or so - that's why the vast majority of bubble stations aren't, but there'll be some here and there.
 
I just wonder why Elite has very small Amount of it (thats my Feeling).Im a very visual Guy and always love good looking Spots,like a Haz Res (for BountyHunt) with a Star near by.

So many possibilities but Elite doesnt use much of them imho.
 
The asteroid bases are fab, bit harder to find the entrance as a beginner. Use the docking computer! I am at LHS 20 at the moment as there is a great ringed planetwith many and frequent conflict zones and HZ so no shortage of shooty stuff fun. Theres well equippedoutfitters and plenty to do. Have fun. Scary Avatar mate!
 
So,i saw some Streams where the beginning Cmdrs are starting from a very nice placed Station.It hangs above an Ring.

My Question is,where can i find such a nice placed Station outside the starting Zone or is it just to bait new Players and let them drop when they are outside the starting Area?

I Carinae, Somerset Station. Ringed earthlike with varied rez sites
 
I just wonder why Elite has very small Amount of it (thats my Feeling).Im a very visual Guy and always love good looking Spots,like a Haz Res (for BountyHunt) with a Star near by.

It's a case of "Science trumping Fun". Because while it might be Fun to have spectacular scenery, Science says that putting a giant space station in orbit around a ringed planet, in any plane other than the same plane as the ring, is a really bad idea, because it's asking for that station to be sandblasted/pummelled with high-relative-velocity ring particles twice every orbit. Keeping it in the same plane as the ring avoids most of the potential problems with stray ring debris.

That being said, FD have a long track record in making Beginner Space "more interesting" than usual. In the precursor FE2 game, the standard starter location was in Ross 154, a hand-crafted system deliberately designed to give a spectacular view of the looming ringed gas giant Aster from Merlin's only surface starrport at the start of game (1 January 3200). The Ross 154 system survived the transition to ED and I believe Aster is still one of the few named gas giants outside of Sol system. Then, for the preview trailers and tech demos for ED back in 2014, they hand-crafted the 17 Draconis system specifically to give it a spectacular view, of an Earth-like orbiting a gas giant with another moon passing perilously close, all much further above the galactic plane than Sol is so that there's a nice view of the Galactic Core as well.
 
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So,i saw some Streams where the beginning Cmdrs are starting from a very nice placed Station.It hangs above an Ring.

My Question is,where can i find such a nice placed Station outside the starting Zone or is it just to bait new Players and let them drop when they are outside the starting Area?
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