2022-01-13 FYI

[Neils Iyssada]

Martianant, that is what I was thinking. Perhaps you must be in the same system as a ship to take a berth aboard it, unless it’s an empire ship with an officer.

Yes this would make the game more interesting regarding empire interaction and even empire management.
It would make Ringworlds more useful, even if they are a bit unconvenient to use.

As for ships it would be perfectly usable to request a berth in the same system, if you make sure we can properly retrieve a "bugged" ship stopped in the void between 2 systems. Like a beacon produced by the ship, or exact coordinates to jump / deadhead to it (while avoiding collision).