I've always relied on Berth-a-port to collect the funds from my harvesters, but the option to place a mission order to deposit all but operating funds could replace that. After that I use it to retrieve stranded ships and visit my more distant planets. I do a lot of deep exploration so I do sometimes wind up with some very distant clusters of planets.
It does certainly allow players to more easily congregate as well.
Maybe some other options could be:
- Longer range transporters ( transport across a sector or more)
- Discover Hyper-space jump gates where building a gate at both ends could provide greatly increased to nearly instant travel from one to the other depending on distance.
- Increase warp and wormhole speeds.
- Wormholes that go a sector or more.
- Have stranded ships emit a beacon that rescuers can lock onto and follow even while drifting and powerless.
I'd really kind of hate to lose berth-a-porting but I can understand if you feel you must ;)
It does certainly allow players to more easily congregate as well.
Maybe some other options could be:
- Longer range transporters ( transport across a sector or more)
- Discover Hyper-space jump gates where building a gate at both ends could provide greatly increased to nearly instant travel from one to the other depending on distance.
- Increase warp and wormhole speeds.
- Wormholes that go a sector or more.
- Have stranded ships emit a beacon that rescuers can lock onto and follow even while drifting and powerless.
I'd really kind of hate to lose berth-a-porting but I can understand if you feel you must ;)
I plan on living forever ..so far so good!