Pretty solid question and one that's been bothering me since I first started playing this game on Day 1. To this day that thing serves no point (seeing as how you need 2 people to agree to brig someone so the opposing player has to brig themselves), but not once in the year since the game was released have they really discussed what to do with that spot. All it does is take up space. I mean, I'm sure at this point nobody even cares that it's there and just ignores it but it's kind of become a pet peeve of mine.
So, what would you folks replace it with? Or would you just have it completely removed? I think it should be a Pig Pen you can put Pig Crates in that help feed the pigs. That way if you're a solo player doing Merchant runs the Pigs won't drive you nuts crying for food while you wander around trying to secure the rest of your cargo (preventing much annoyance).
What would you do?