If I dock in another player's capship and issue the 'follow' command to my capship, and if my capship is not in my sector, it will come to my sector. Then it stops. I can issue other commands to it while docked and it seems to work fine in-sector (like turbo, patrol), but follow does not. If I remember correctly this follow while docked originally worked in the same sector, but it might be my faulty memory. Regardless, I'm suggesting that the follow command also function when docked in capships or in stations.

Where would the Capship go if it's following you and you're in a station or capship? Will it attempt to dock in the station/capship or will it be satisfied with sitting outside the station, or continuously orbit it?

Imagine the capship you dock in is far from the jump-in point, it would continue to move toward you. Or imaging the capship you dock in is moving, it will follow along.

I'm not asking that the following ship dock with a station on it's own but it's an interesting idea, I would not object. But I think regarding the station scenario, into the NFZ is enough.