Whenever a new patch arrives in Star Citizen, the first thing you get to choose is your primary starting location, and that can be a hard decision if you are new to the game in Alpha 3.23.
Well, each major city in Star Citizen comes with its own advantages and disadvantages, but after summing up all those benefits and threats, we have come to a conclusion!
Best Starting Location
Lorville at Hurston is the best starting location in Star Citizen Alpha 3.23, and a lot is contributing to it. The very first benefit of being in Hurston is that you are fairly close to all other Stanton planets. Like, if you choose to reside in ArcCorp, the travels back and forth to Crusader or MicroTech will be a real pain, but Hurston is almost located in the middle of all the other three planets, which makes it a great starting point.
When it comes to specific Alpha 3.23 reasons, Hurston hosts most branches of the Distribution Centers, including Hurston Dynamics, Covalex, Sakura Sun, and Dupree Industrial. Also, you can find large pools of water at Hurston to test the new water render systems or accept Kopion missions to hunt these aggressive creatures inside dark caves.
Other than that, Hurston allows access to a wide variety of missions. For example, if you start from ArcCorp, you may not receive group bounty-hunting missions from Northrock or Eckhart, which are some of the highest-paying bounty quests in the game, but Hurston will give it to you!
Moreover, the space station above Hurston, Everus Harbor, is one of the best stations in the game, featuring both armor and weapon shops, with the landing pads located on the outside wings of it, making the landing and take-off process pretty easy.
Moreover, the capital of Hurston, Lorville, features one of the best ship dealerships in the game, covering a wide variety of brands. So, if you are going to buy a new vessel, you may actually want to pay a visit to Lorville eventually.
Other than that, finding the landing zone and hangar area in Lorville is much easier compared to cities like Orison or Area 18, which is another plus for newcomers.
Hopefully, the developers have fixed the bug with Lorville’s weather affecting player movement inside buildings, which makes the experience in the city much smoother.
Of course, Lorville is not as beautiful as Orison or New Babbage, as it is most of an industrial city with a pretty polluted sky, however, the benefits are big enough to ignore the dirty look of the city.
