Station landing pad size information should be in-game

[Cross]

Unless I'm totally blind, nowhere in-game does it provide information as to what sizes of landing pads any given station offers. New players would probably greatly appreciate being able to know that information without having to use third-party information...

 

[Factabulous]

Nav Panel for the station. Click on the station - look in the details. Has the Max Landing Pad size. Hopefully it's now correct (has been broken before).

But anyway, you'll learn them coon enough

 

[metatheurgist]

All outposts max at medium pads. All large stations have Large pads, as do all planetary locations. Done.

 

[Cross]

Nav Panel for the station. Click on the station - look in the details. Has the Max Landing Pad size. Hopefully it's now correct (has been broken before).

But anyway, you'll learn them coon enough

Is it there? I was sure I looked everywhere.

 

[phoe]

I'm having problems with this too.

If you're looking through the available missions you can't be sure that where they want courier data / cargo to go to can accommodate the ship your in.

Opening the galaxy map is no help if you've never been to that system before, because it doesn't have the solar system data to show you.

At very least, buying the market data should provide the maximum pad size for each station, and tell you that it's suitable for your ship.

 

[Florenus]

I'm having problems with this too.

If you're looking through the available missions you can't be sure that where they want courier data / cargo to go to can accommodate the ship your in.

Opening the galaxy map is no help if you've never been to that system before, because it doesn't have the solar system data to show you.

At very least, buying the market data should provide the maximum pad size for each station, and tell you that it's suitable for your ship.

When you take mission, read description.
In the "Destination" section it will tell you if target station is an outpost (in brackets).
Outposts don't have Large landing pads. That's all you need to know really.

 

[GroG79]

At very least, buying the market data should provide the maximum pad size for each station, and tell you that it's suitable for your ship.

With the market data you can toggle both planetary/orbital and ship size

 

[Maymo]

@phoe
The game doesn't let you take missions if your ship is the incorrect size for the destination.

"Ship too large" will be clearly stated in red with the unavailable missions.

It's therefore impossible to take a mission that your current ship is incapable of doing.

 

[phoe]

Call me dumb, but why the hell don't they;

A) clearly flag it up as unsuitable if it's too small
...or...
B) don't display stuff that's unsuitable at all unless you filter for it

Many of us are casual players, who don't want or need to learn stats to do our thing

 

[phoe]

@phoe
"Ship too large" will be clearly stated in red with the unavailable missions.

It's therefore impossible to take a mission that your current ship is incapable of doing.

Thanks, that's all I needed, something simple (like me) by way of explanation !

 

[Para Handy]

Just in case there is any lingering doubt, (Outposts are the only destination that does not have a large landing pad):

The loading screen does tell you to actually read the mission description before accepting it:

 

[varonica]

I'm having problems with this too.

If you're looking through the available missions you can't be sure that where they want courier data / cargo to go to can accommodate the ship your in.

You can't take missions for stations with a landing pad you can't land on in your current ship, this really only affects the large ships because all locations have at least medium and small. It has been a bone of contention in the past because people take missions in small ships and then swap to large ships and suddenly find they can't land, but that's their problem, not the games problem.

 

[cheesenbiscuits]

There are lots of pitfalls in ED,it's kind of part of the game and a learning process. There are just so many little details to know,it would be impossible to put all that information front and center.

 

[phoe]

With the market data you can toggle both planetary/orbital and ship size

If you can do this, it's still extremely cryptic in the way you need to access it, when it really doesn't need to be.

 

[phoe]

There are lots of pitfalls in ED,it's kind of part of the game and a learning process. There are just so many little details to know,it would be impossible to put all that information front and center.

If they can tell you you might need an SRV to do a planetary scan job, they could definitely say "you'd need a smaller ship"

 

[Para Handy]

If they can tell you you might need an SRV to do a planetary scan job, they could definitely say "you'd need a smaller ship"

I look forward (NOT) to your complaining when you take a high-value assassination mission only to find that the target turns out to be hundreds of thousands of ls away from your arrival point. (The only time you get a mission with a drawback that is not advertised.)

 

[phoe]

I look forward (NOT) to your complaining when you take a high-value assassination mission only to find that the target turns out to be hundreds of thousands of ls away from your arrival point.

LOL I'm a lover, not a fighter

 

[varonica]

If they can tell you you might need an SRV to do a planetary scan job, they could definitely say "you'd need a smaller ship"

They do....it was stated earlier by Maymo;

"Ship too large" will be clearly stated in red with the unavailable missions.

If you have a large ship missions with only small and medium pads will be in the unavailable mission section and state "ship too large," if you can't interpret this as saying you need a smaller ship to complete the mission then it doesn't matter how clear they make the information, you aren't going to see it anyway.