...should not be visible to players that are 'hate'. Like in conc station sectors.

If I am an Itani hated by Serco, the Serco station indicators should not be visible to me.

But put this way down the list, it's not important except for consistency.

+1

Some indication of the fact that you're not allowed to dock would be a good idea.

Just because you're hated with a faction doesn't mean you magically stop receiving docking information that is broadcast to the sector, or your star charts magically have station coordinate data removed. The argument could probably be made that they only broadcast docking bay info to those who have requested docking privilege, but that's a very thin argument, unless the station is a secret to begin with or has strict docking protocols.

As ARF suggested, a color change could be helpful (red for can't dock). This of course would dovetail neatly with another feature that has been requested for a long time: fully customizable colors for radar blips, even if only via the API.

I think it would be better if all station icons would be visible to all players, or at least if you'd had the station icon at one point then it would be visible from then on. You'd imagine that if we are flying ships through space then we'd probably have the technology to save locations.

"even if only via the API."

Yeah, we definitely more customization that is only available to those who can write plugins to do so. This will certainly help VO attract more players that have no programming ability.

Greenwall, making a function available in the API to do something is far simpler than having to make a GUI to support that feature that won't break under any circumstances. Is only making it available via the API the best solution, perhaps not, but considering limited resources, I'll take what I can get. Besides, the whole idea behind plugins is to add the ability to customize the interface in ways the devs may not have thought of; or didn't have time to do [edit]; or didn't feel it fit their design plan, but didn't want to prevent others from having that option.

Yeah, i'd really rather there be like a red (S) icon instead that says "There's a docking bay here and you can't have it."

+1 to the red S. Apply it to the S's in the nav-map too.

including conq stations? part of the non-S when you don't have a key has been a nice challenge, I think.

Including conq stations assuming you've owned a key to it at one point.

You'd imagine that if we are flying ships through space then we'd probably have the technology to save locations.

+1 to red 'S' on stations and navmap for stations you cannot enter

We'll look into this (having special "unfriendly" S-icons for stations where you are KoS or otherwise unable to dock).