In s4 station it seems to have the entry/exit docks set up since I always exit out of the same dock and cannot dock again through that one...but there are no force fields marking the bottom docks as exit only. I never checked the other home stations.

There is a waiting period before redocking in the "old" stations. Try sitting tight for a few seconds and then dock in the same bay you just left. I'm not sure about exiting from the same dock every time though.

The top two-docks of the old stations are now the exit docks. It doesn't have the purrrty glowing FX on 'em, but that's what they act like. In other words you can't redock 'em no matter how long you wait. Just fly back down to the other docks to dock the station again.

This thread doesn't matter. We're all getting pretty new stations soon. The thing I don't understand is why s18 has a new station, if the old ones were "small outposts in the middle of nowhere", isn't s18 about as nowhere as you can get?

I'd rather see an alien station be placed in s18. Organic structures similar to the Furies would be nice. Like a beehive type place. The docking stations would have these nasty, gooey claws that snatch your ship when you dock. Yum!

yeah!

Has anyone ever explored the idea of catapaults? I keep seeing the commercial of the new Battlestar Galactica on the sci-fi channel, and I can't help but notice how cool Vendetta would be if ships got thrown outta the docks really fast like that. That would be an easy way to stop station miners from blocking the exits. Or prevent players from spawning inside each other. Etc.