How do I check station economy type?

[nanite2000]

If I'm looking for a material trader, or if I'm just looking for commodities to trade, it matters what the primary economy type is of the station I'm docking at.

How can I find which is the primary economy of a specific station before I dock?

For example, in a system that has both Refinery and Industrial economy types, how do I know which is the primary economy at a specific station in that system?

I couldn't see anything obvious in the system map.

What am I missing?

 

[777Driver]

If I'm looking for a material trader, or if I'm just looking for commodities to trade, it matters what the primary economy type is of the station I'm docking at.

How can I find which is the primary economy of a specific station before I dock?

For example, in a system that has both Refinery and Industrial economy types, how do I know which is the primary economy at a specific station in that system?

I couldn't see anything obvious in the system map.

What am I missing?

The galaxy map has filters for economy type, along with a whole bunch of other filters. The system map will tell you the station economy when you click on the station.

Out of game you can use Inara https://inara.cz/galaxy-starsystems/

 

[nanite2000]

The galaxy map has filters for economy type, along with a whole bunch of other filters. The system map will tell you the station economy when you click on the station.

The system map doesn't tell you the station economy when you click on it, unfortunately.

The galaxy map filters are easy enough to find, but I'm stuck when I get into the system map.

Inara will only tell you the system economy. On Inara, if a system has more than one economy, then each station within that system will show both economies. It doesn't specify which is the primary economy for any individual station in such cases.

 

[777Driver]

The system map doesn't tell you the station economy when you click on it, unfortunately.

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I just did a quick check at one of my trade areas. One system is listed as Agricultural & Industrial, when I click on the stations they tell me the economy of each station.

 

[the100thmonkey]

 

[nanite2000]

Ah, you're right! It was off the bottom of edge of my screen, so I missed it.

Thanks guys!