Promote Trident use in battle! Too often these things are just fat cows people stuff overloaded with XCs full of junk and putt around honking.

Add capship docks to the barracks stations in Deneb O-3 and Geira O-4.

+1 This should be the next priority for docks.

tbh I think all stations should have some level of docking capability for tridents. Commercial, military and capital stations are obvious first choices, but mining and to a lesser degree research stations would need to provide trident access as well- if we want to pretend VO is a real universe that is.

Maybe not full docking in which ship repairs and load out changes can be made or even having the protection of being docked, but at minimum an ability to directly transfer cargo to and from the trident. In fact, I still maintain that full docking ability should be the exception, while partial docking the rule.

"would need to provide trident access as well- if we want to pretend VO is a real universe that is."

Bullshit. Tridents can be loaded and unloaded via smaller ships, and that's all many small stations would need. Not every city has a rail road, and not every port is equipped to deal with oil tankers. It is not immersion-breaking for not every space station to have convenient ways of moving cargo to and from capital ships.

What should be added is an easier way to transfer goods between the hold of the capital ship and the holds of ships docked with it. The need to jettison the cargo and then scoop it up is the only thing odd with tridents vs. small stations.

"What should be added is an easier way to transfer goods between the hold of the capital ship and the holds of ships docked with it. The need to jettison the cargo and then scoop it up is the only thing odd with tridents vs. small stations."

Which is why I've always advocated external docking. Leave the tridents vulnerable and restrict changes to the ship itself such as repair and outfitting to full docking stations. I have also in the past suggested a manufacturable barge that players could load onto their trident to transfer large volumes of cargo at a time.

I will say for myself, it is immersion breaking. As a player who predominantly builds / trades on their main character, I would point out that I haven't had any desire to login on my main in a bit over two months. I have come to dislike the whole experience of moving cargo with a trident because of the inability to dock with important stations. Nor do I have any intention of logging into my main now that the capital stations have full docking capacity for tridents. I would also point out how many other trident builders have left shortly after completing their build.

Tridents in Deneb. Lol

Serco has no compelling reason to go to the broke end of the universe. With no turrets in GR to protect the border from invaders, no stations in Deneb for the Serco, drunk AI in skirms, coupled with this ridiculous suggestion of repping dents in Deneb...what purpose does this serve ARF? Just use repmods. I'm with fluffy. If you're going to do one station, you may as well do them all. Sol II or Itan capital is not a very strategic locale for a trident to be stationed.

Your baby-mode boohoo isn't wanted here. Some people actually play the border skirmishes. We already know that's not you, Ore.

This is about having a place to refit and reload player capships for battle. Not about easier ways to move cargo.

Only Itani scrubs and newbs who don't know any better play Deneb.