Make Docking Rings Allow dock for all

[lIceColon]

Also, there's no way to make Docking Rings work like Jump Gates (which permit jumping even when hostile).

perhaps make docking work like the way you go to conn- the ring itself is an always neutral "base" that is labelled according to its faction, the defences in its perimeter are hostile. and when you successfully dock with the ring you are redirected to the actual base thingy. and then when you depart the base, you are again redirected to the neutral docking ring.

so when you dock with manhattan you are docking with li_base_01_ring or something (sorry im not a dev, dunno the actual names :|), but you are redirected to li_base_01 which is the actual base for manhattan.

actually now that i think of it, you could even implement 2-base system for any planet, ie you will dock either with the lawful side of the planet, or the underground/unlawful/blackmarket "side" of the planet depending on your reputation (or your choice if you are friendly with the planet). and maybe when you (un)dock unlawfully a dice is rolled based on your equipment to see if you actually made it through the atmospheric defenses to successfully reach the unlawful settlement

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No atmosphere? GTFO.
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