1) Make some kind of capship part (or parts) drop at a decent rate in Deneb from capital ship explosions.

2) Connect UIT space to Deneb somehow.

3) Write a new chapter in the backstory to justify UIT involvement in Deneb.

4) Add a UIT team to the Deneb battles -- a three way game.

/vo wins

Yeah that's all we need, another reason for the Serco to have a big cry that Deneb is tilted against them.

UIT are mercenaries; they don't need their own team, they just need an incentive to fight for one side or the other. Capship parts could be that reason.

+1 to #1 and #2.

Hey, I've seen UIT HACs with my own eyes in game. They exist! They truly want to come out of the shadows and fight glorious battles with their red and blue relatives.

+1 for a nice generous rate of SSS drops from Deneb capships explosions, not dent parts

+1 for uit to have a faster, but not single wh to deneb (like the large stormy dual wh single sector described in a previous post about this with the wh's far apart)

-1 for a uit team... they already can join the serco or itani military if they like

+1 to a clandestine UIT involvement in which UIT players can engage in various acts such as sabotage designed to cause the Serco / Itani conflict to flare up.

+1 to Kierky. Yer right, it won't improve the imbalance in Deneb. +1 to sending all the smurfs and their lemonhead friends to Deneb to fight against each other though. Give the UIT 4 stations while yer at it.

Ore: sorry, you do not meeet the requirements of someone who can comment on Deneb.

+1 to the UIT getting 4 stations in Deneb. Good idea Wally!!!

leave the Deneb station on the EO WH Itani, put one station on the serco WH and make the other Itani station the new magic UIT WH

I don't really give a fuck about RP reasons any more I just want people to come together and be killed in harmony

you mean like in an arena?

the arena could be the large stormy dual wh single sector system between uit and deneb ;) You'll just have to fly there.

Serco won Deneb this past week, I think the secret was that some Serco actually showed up. Looking at the stat board it seems none of the whiners contributed to the vistory.

I haven't been to Deneb in a long time, so hopefully its a bit more crowded nowadays. However, from what I remember you could organize a team effort or go solo, but in any case only play PvE as there were usually no PC enemies around. Solo'ing dents is fun for a couple times, a team run on a HAC or Connie is also fun for a couple times, but both get old pretty quickly. At least queen and levy hunting gives you badges and drops. So, the team that shows up (the most) is the team that wins.

-1 OP, however, as that is simply not consistent with the back story.

In the spirit of OP, however, I think it would be good to give UIT a better reason to join. This should consist of a better bonus (more credits?) and maybe lessen the impact on opponent standing. Maybe even allow them to fly nationalist hardware after they achieve certain rank, but forbidding them to take the hardware home until they reach "general" rank (under pain of status loss followed by turret shooting). This allows a UIT to *eventually* acquire an SCP/valk as UIT, but until they really invest in the nationalist cause (say reach Itani POS plus the badge for 10 HAC kills or 10000 casualties or something) or they can just grab one, run, dodge the turrets, and screw the consequences.

Other suggestions that have been aired many times that would also help make Deneb more popular that I'll just repeat in the hope it helps are:
- reducing travel time
- getting some useful drops
- giving serco a station
- better pairing of players, e.g. by making fewer missions available or limiting/timing the bigger battles somehow.

Extend Grey to Deneb. Make fun things in the new systems (Fun things in other suggestions)