Themken: Which game? This subforum is for the whole X series.
X4 it seems.
OptiSTR: yes its X4, i thought i was pretty clear on that as you cant "summon" HQs in other games
also you cant built landing platforms in other X games
Stations automatically create a "build storage" when you purchase a plot. The build storage has docking for both S/M and L ships.
As long as you place enough money into the construction budget, the station will automatically generate orders for resources at the price levels you have selected. (It can take several minutes before the orders are generated.) NPCs will eventually supply it. Things that can slow this down are:
* a galactic shortage of a particular resource will cause many stations to bid max price for a particular resource; free traders will accept the closest contract to them with the highest value, which might never be your station until galactic production of that resource is brought better into balance;
* the HOP keeps trying to sell some resource to you, and their freighters are getting blown up before they arrive;
* you don't have enough money in your account, or you are underbidding the current market equilibrium for some resource.
While they did add an option for us to assign one of our ships to shop for build storage, this doesn't seem to work in practice. I still have to manually order my ships to supply some resources to build storage.