Different functions and features accessible to players inside stations...

Station Management

• Modular functionality at stations: Owner (NPC or Player Org) makes decisions on what modules to purchase/build and make available.
• Venues (need better term) submodular ownership - can be rented from station owner. Example: "Sidney's Used Ships and Salvage" operates as a business renting storage, market and functional modules on "L-5 Station", which itself is run by LunaCorp.

Shipyard Functions

• Ship hull repair
• Ship system repair
• Powerplant refueling
• System installation (purchases in market)
• Ship painting

Manufacturing

Trade/Market function access

• Commodities market
• Equipment / supply market
• Ship hull market (including outfitted vessels, new and used)

Organization or agent access

• Licensure requests
• Agent contacts (Military recruiting, for example)
• Interface for Org staff/officers

Bulletin-board access

• Ingame jobs and advertisement postings
• Civilian matchmaking service (miner needs escort)
• Official announcements (Corps, Govs, and DEV/SYSTEM)
• Newsfeeds

Additional Comms options

Istvan A compromise between JumpGate (minimal station interface) and E&B (walkabout avatars) might be to have an improved "in-station network" for comms. Since the player isn't navigating the ship (docked/landed), the usual control panels could be set aside in favor of a "communications bank" full of "holos" of people on your channel. This is a better interaction environment for chat than JumpGate has, but retreats from modelling anthropomorphic avatars walking about.