Horizons The Best Parking Places Should Be Reserved for Local Faction Allied Visitors

Chaparral

Chaparral
So it may be the Imperial in me leaking out - but I really prefer the parking places in the far back of the station. I hate cruising through the mail slot at 80+ m/s (below the speed limit) and having to hit the brakes to park in a "slot close" spot. Or worse yet, overshoot the spot and noob flip back to find my spot.

Yeah yeah I COULD memorize the spot locations, but c'mon - if I've run enough missions for the local controlling faction to earn my own space - pretty much with MY NAME on it. Shoot I'd even PAY 100 credits every time I land to get one of those sweet spots in the back of the bus.

Don't get me wrong, I really do relish those warm and fuzzy greetings from the station command folks - but I deserve some VIP treatment here.

I do understand this may not be possible in open play at busy stations - but how bout for private group and solo?
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
Indeed the compass works - Thank you for a very practical and cogent suggestion! I was looking for a slice of immersion and "belonging" to the local community. Parking seemed like a harmless perk for status.
 

Nardypants

Nardypants
It's easy even without the compass. I never use it. Just come in the slot in the same orientation everytime. Provided you use the same pad size most of the time, you only have a couple numbers to memorize. I mostly land on large pads when I do lots of landings (trading/missions) and after I noticed that 24 and 25 were right in front of me and below, it took me no time to figure out where the others were.
 

DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
Commander Danicus said:
So it may be the Imperial in me leaking out - but I really prefer the parking places in the far back of the station. I hate cruising through the mail slot at 80+ m/s (below the speed limit) and having to hit the brakes to park in a "slot close" spot. Or worse yet, overshoot the spot and noob flip back to find my spot.

Yeah yeah I COULD memorize the spot locations, but c'mon - if I've run enough missions for the local controlling faction to earn my own space - pretty much with MY NAME on it. Shoot I'd even PAY 100 credits every time I land to get one of those sweet spots in the back of the bus.

Don't get me wrong, I really do relish those warm and fuzzy greetings from the station command folks - but I deserve some VIP treatment here.

I do understand this may not be possible in open play at busy stations - but how bout for private group and solo?
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The best parking spot is pad 25
pad 24 is ok
everything else I can take or leave.
Thats all you really have to know for large ships.
 

D.G.Cerberus

D.G.Cerberus
as I finally realised from a thread in the last couple of days showing the placement of all the pads.....(I was wondering why I keep getting the "close to mailslot" pads these days) - there are only 3 large pads at the back of the station versus 6 at the "front" near the mailslot. Law of averages then.
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
All true about those large pads. Not too many to choose from. But I would humbly suggest people with a bit of play time in have many different ships to run around in given the mission profiles that favor medium and under-sized ships. Pretty sure folks don't reconfigure one large ship for everything. So the quantity of potential "slot close" spots does increase quite a bit when you factor in the small and medium ships. I do want to point out that I'm not really struggling with parking, it's more about looking for a quality of life perk after grinding for local rep. I must say it is truly awesome how folks in the community have really sussed out how to optimize gameplay in Elite. You guys are great!
 
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