I can't take the pointless travelling between planets...

Yes, huge and totaly empty building with static NPC is totaly useless. I really miss SWG whre you selected a ship from terminal (yes, you can have more ships, imagine that) and flew. Or you bought a ticket (yes, because there are money in Star Wars, yet in SWTOR somehow all shuttles are free) and made a small walk to the shuttle and flew.

Oh I still play eve. the nice thing about eve is you can stick your ship on AP and go make coffee or minimize the game and browse the web while you fly. Unless your not in empire. then its just warp to 0 jump warp to 0 jump warp to 0 jump. yea it can take awhile.

There should be an option to auto skip all the hangar bays etc.I can see still leaving some shuttle ports because some of them have quests. It was kind of neat visually the first couple of times I did it, I appreciated the level of detail that went into where they house my ship, where I take off and land at. After that though it was tedious. My husband and I play this together, we're always grouped and it's annoying enough to get places to do things. "Honey are you almost here?" "Nope, I'm past the 2nd loading screen, I'm almost on my ship." And if it's annoying to us who could not possibly be more patient with each other...

That's is imo, one reason some people have trouble getting groups for things. Even in my Guild, if someone says let's do a world boss tour, it takes people forever to get together because we all have to deal with many loading screens and tedious walks to get in one place. I have (on the alts I don't lay with my husband) even been removed from groups before for taking too long to get there. Well sorry, I'm a whole planet and shuttle and starport away but I'm loading as fast as I can.

I am one of the stop and smell the roses type of people but this even got to me after a while. I have in the options menu A box to autoskip movies if I choose. I'd dearly love another option next to that to auto skip space travel loading screens if there are no quest givers in the area.

And that's why there are jump bridges. If you're not in Highsec you ought be in an alliance that has some.

So even EvE has less tedious travel than TOR.

That's it, and the longer you play the worse it will get.

Personally I think they probably need one of both of these:


1. A fast travel point to right outside your ship (if not to inside your ship - might be some issues with this, maybe)


2. A speeder point to and from right outside your ship that unlocks like the rest (or again perhaps that takes you inside your ship - just reaches the one nearest spaceport than loads ship straight from there).


Because as it is.... well it's just plain annoying.

I only made it a few pages into this thread before my eyes glazed over, so I apologize in advance if anything I'm saying here has already been said.

Point #1: I'm almost done with Act 1, and one of the things I have noticed about Tatooine (and my forays into Alderaan) is that there's no "Imperial Shuttle" drop point. See, on Balmorra and Nar Shaddaa there were these wonderful shuttles that would take you straight to the drop-hanger on the imperial fleet. Adding something like that to every planet (twice if we want to be nice to the repubs) goes a long way towards improving quality of life. I don't care if I'm a 5 minute speeder ride away from the outpost, I'll go take a bio break and make a sandwich if I know that when I get back I can just shuttle straight to fleet.

Point #2: The fleet passes need to be sold in more locations, and their cost shouldn't be prohibitive to use. Limit them to level whatever-you-want, lower the price, sell them at the cantinas.

Point #3: There is no reason that I should not be able to mount in the spaceport. Yeah, I understand that there are buildings and palaces where I have to just suck it up. But seriously, you fly starships in and out of the building and my speeder is verboten? That's just silly.

I agree that travel is a heinous waste of time. It's actually a barrier in my mind whenever I make decisions. Oh I need something from the fleet? Ugh...I'll have to go through all those loading screens, then do the same thing on the way back...forget it. On my questing journey, I'd only go to the fleet after I finished the planet I was on and never in between.

I think having your own ship was a good idea, but the implementation meant a huge barrier to travel, and that's a bad thing. Something needs to give somewhere as this is a massive issue.

I love the realism of it. I walk my characters everywhere in game as well, to appreciate the realism even more.

NOT.

My Alliance Failcascaded :'(

Go back cause there are the Flashpoint Shuttles. You just failed to find them. As for the travel system, they want the feel of Star Wars. No where in any movie was there instant transportation. You either got in a shuttle, speeder, or a ship.