Orbital Bases, Traveling, and Load Times

It's fine, it really is. The whole point is to peovide a space station for the planets that don't have starship class spacesports. Don't be lazy is the real answer.

That cannot be true since there is a shuttle sitting there that you have to use to get to the oribital base. have it so when i click my door to get out of my ship i load the planet and am standing outside that shuttle or something. it should not take me 14+ steps to go from the fleet to ilum or from one planet to another.

So how to you get from the shuttle to your ship? They can't dock to your ship!
It's to add some "realism" to the fact that you aren't putting a shuttle on your ship

Don't know what the philosophy was here.

If anything, immersion is broken since the space stations and spacedocks all have the same layout.

It's a telling reminder of the finite resources of the dev team to make a ginormous world, not a reinforcement of the world's ginormousness.

that argument is moot. i use a laser sword in space, having me do something tedious for realism after that is just poor game design.

Seriously the Orbital bases have to go. It takes forever to go from planet to planet for absolutely no reason.

1. enter hangar (a couple of seconds)
2. run to ship (a few seconds)
3. space bar through take off movie (a second)
4. load screen (a few seconds)
5. run to map (a few seconds)
6. activate map and pick planet (a couple of seconds)
7. run to door (a few seconds)
8. space bar through movie (a second)
9. load planet (quite a few seconds, can be a long time)
10. run through hangar to elevator (a few seconds)
11. take elevator (a couple of seconds)
12. run to shuttle (a few seconds - depending on how far away, and shouldn't this be Taxi stand?)
13. take shuttle (what's this?)
14. take speeder to destination (quite a few seconds, can be a long time)

This is absolutely ridiculous. I have had friends quit half way through leveling because of how tedious it is to go anywhere. It should not take 14 steps and two loading screens to get to where I need to go ever.

I know there is story on some orbital stations and quests to pick up on arrival. Fine have us go there the first time we arrive at a planet but after that just have me 'use a shuttle' to get down when i travel to a planet.

Have an option to disable take off/arrival movies. After the first time you see them there is no reason I have to sit through them or spam space bar again and again.