There's an option to show only large landing pads only with the market information, and that doesn't work. I can't find that information in the system map, either. It seems the only way is to jump into the system and check navigation panel.
How do I see on the map what landing pads a place has?
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Use M and S ships.
Why would I do that?
To land where you want to land.
Don't remember if the nav panel tells you explicitly but the icon of the station will tell you once you become more familiar with them.
In the system map it tells you the largest pad available, and you can access the system map remotely for any system you have previously visited (or has a large enough population that the info is available anyway). Any ship can dock on any pad that is the same size or larger than it's requirement. The ships pad size is stated in the shipyard when you buy it or switch to it.
In the navpanel, there are stations having the same icon while not all of them have large landing pads.
But where? I'm looking at the system map and I don't see it.
Yes, and I'm making an example, see attachments: The system map clearly shows that the place has large landing pads. The navpanel clearly shows that it doesn't (I'm in a T9 and need a large pad).
In the system map, I don't see that information anywhere. Since the information on the galaxy map is wrong, how can I remotely see if I can land at the place where I could sell my cargo?
EDIT: See 3rd picture, that's worng information right there. Or what?
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Hara Chemical depot (and Odyssey settlement) only has a medium pad dock, I don't know why the in-game commodity tool is showing that appropriate pads are available if you were actually in a large ship when you took that screenshot.
You will need to find somewhere else to sell your cobalt unless you have a small enough amount that you can transfer to a medium ship with enough cargo space. I'm not close enough to be able to see what alternatives are available.
With experience you will get used to where you can dock a large pad ship so you can access station services (rather than just landing nearby with Odyssey settlements like Hara).
You could try just going there & requesting docking permission to find out for yourself
You will need to find somewhere else to sell your cobalt unless you have a small enough amount that you can transfer to a medium ship with enough cargo space. I'm not close enough to be able to see what alternatives are available.
With experience you will get used to where you can dock a large pad ship so you can access station services (rather than just landing nearby with Odyssey settlements like Hara).
You could try just going there & requesting docking permission to find out for yourself
Selling it isn't the problem, I went somewhere else. But I go for trade opportunities that show up so nicely on the right side of the trade interface, and that doesn't show the size of the landing pad. I need to know if I can dock before I go there or I'll only waste my time instead of making money. Using smaller ships isn't helpful for that at all. Try trading in a T9; cashing in about 4--11 million profit per trip within the same system or within only one jump is just too much fun. And it's my best source of money.
I guess I'll make a bug report.
I guess I'll make a bug report.
Yes, that looks like a bug for sure. The only other option, and one that I'd suggest most use, at least I do, is to sign up with an account to inara.cz. I believe you can get all the info you need there. I'll not comment on whether it's good or bad etc.. it doesn't bother me either way and inara is definitely worth checking out either way. It really is a top tier resource for nearly everything you need. The only thing it doesn't handle is building ship loadout configurations. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I wish Frontier worked out a partnership with them so that an inara frontend could be built into Elite itself so you could use it as if it was an ingame resource.
Have you found many systems where the landing pad size was reported incorrectly? Or just the one?
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It seems to be a problem for multiple places. I haven't explicitly verified in detail if all places seem to be affected since I merely want to know if I can sell my cargo at a place that would yield great profit when trading in my T9, but I have found that I can't dock at a place because it doesn't have a large pad despite it showed as having large pads. Since landing pad size is being reported incorrectly, this is definitely an issue: There is no way to know if you can dock before you enter the system and check on the navpanel.
I'm not sure if creating an account is necessary. I would like to automatically provide information to 3rd party sites like some players do, these tools are invaluable. But how would I get that to work with the steam launcher on Linux?
Yes, things like this need to be inside the game.
This is Qureshi Market in the Lung system, and this looks like a large landing pad to me. I've landed in my Federal Dropship on it and on the other picture, there's an NPC Keelback on it that docked before me. The place is shown to have medium pads, not large. I wonder what it says when I'm in a large ship ...
If someone's in a large ship atm, what does it say?
If someone's in a large ship atm, what does it say?
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One way you can tell the size of a pad is by looking at the heat deflector things (the bits that move up & down in front of your ship as you undock). Small have one, medium two, large pads have three. Your pic shows a medium pad.
Oh, good to know, thanks! The pad looks quite large compared to the ships so I thought it might be a large pad ...
Good luck landing on any pads that a Fuel Star has!
Although at the moment unmaintained, there is a linux version of EDMC available. On linux you just need to set it up, link it to eddn, inara, edsm and what ever else you want to use, even most plugins work well. It just runs in parallel and watches a directory for your journal files, if the game writes a new log, the relevant data is automatically uploaded without any further action on your part.
When you sign up with inara you see the option to import your CMDR log, it can be done via steam or frontier accounts, and a couple of other ways that aren't relevant to your circumstances. Both should work with Linux though. o7