Main Window | Interface on the stations Elite: Dangerous Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

After docking on the station in the place of the radar you will see the menu with three items: Starport Services (main interface window available without coming off the ship), Enter hangar (I you need to buy or swap the components of the ship or the entire ship) and Launch (choose if you want to leave the station. All of the further options are described below.

Munitions

This window enables you the refill of the ammunition for each weapon and hardware (cannons, missiles, afterburners, radiators etc.).

Repairs

In the Repairs window you can repair each of the ship's component separately or all at once. Repairing single components may come handy if you want to save some money.

Other function is the repair of the ship's integrity. Integrity differs from the technical state as the latter is making the component work or not when our ship's health is down to 0% whilst the first makes the ship infallible. If the integrity is down to 0% it lowers the health of the ship by 30 % independently from the earlier made repairs. Low integrity may also cause the fallibility of the components.

Another function is the renovation of the paintwork for our ship. Which with time outwears because of time and collisions.

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board shows the new missions when the old ones disappear (due to time). The missions are divided into two parts, those who are available right away and those for which particular requirements have to be met. More on that in the Earning your first money chapter.

Contacts

Here you can manage your financial actions with the Pilot's Federation and the local government. In order to pay your fees you will have to contact the PF. Each unpaid fee after 24 hours changes into the bounty on your head and gives you the wanted status. In this situation you will have to go to another constellation where you are not wanted and pay your own bounty using this window.

If you want to withdraw all your money given to you for a successful hunt on other player, you will have to contact the Local Security Office. In most cases the rewards are given to you only in the constellations in which you had capture the wanted. More on that in the Earning your first money chapter

Another contact on the list is connected to the military missions. Taking such mission requires from you going to the spot of the conflict, choose the side of it and profit from each enemy ship you will kill from that point. This window will give you your credits.

A black market shows only in some stations. You can sell there the illegal cargo or the stuff which you wasn't able to transfer on time (the deadline will pass and the cargo will be marked illegal).

Weaponry

This window enables you buying the weaponry and other ships components. Prices of each component are lowered by the value of the component which is already mounted in a particular slot. The first bookmark shows the hardpoints on which you can mount the new acquisitions. The second bookmark enables you the change of the color of your ship if you had purchased any earlier on the game's page (for the real money). For now you can't buy new skins for the in-game currency but this may change through time.

This screen also gives you the information on your ship such as power use, cargo capacity or fuel capacity. Watch out: Not every station sells the equipment - more on that in the Fight and Weaponry chapter.

Shipyard

Shipyard plays the role of the ship store. Besides the available models you will be able to find here the holographic pictures of the offered ships and their details. You will be able to sell your ship while buying new one, thus lowering the price of the model you want to buy. Last two bookmarks show you the ships which you have docked and the locations of them. More on that in the Ships chapter.

Market

Market is a very simple interface which can be used to buy or sell a particular goods of daily use (medicaments, food, computer parts etc.) It can be used only for further trade. Sometimes you will find here something which is vital for completing your mission. There are also demand and supply indicators, list of the constellations and the supply of a particular good on the station. Based on that, you can plan your trading route. Not every station has its own market more on that on the Earning first money chapter.

Unified Cartography

The last position on the list of the station's services is the interface used for the galaxy maps selling. It is very useful for those who are not interested in exploration and do not have any component for scanning on their ships. For the searchers and the cosmic tourists the pieces of information on this maps may appear as a very lucrative business model. Prices of these maps are of about thousands of credits. The rules are simple: Maps with details about the star systems around the station are the cheapest, the ones connected to the constellations far away are the most expensive. Minimum distance of these maps is the 20 light years.