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

you seem to be missing the reason those stations are there. There are Missions in them and shuttles to the Flash Points. Then on your ship you have access to your Cargo hold, a rest point to speak with companions to get more Missions as well as Flight Missions. So no, none of it is a waste for those of us who are not bypassing content to get to the top.

For the record, I preferred SWG before they changed to that system. There were longer shuttle waits (a bit too long) and specific travel lanes between certain planets. The galaxy had a sense of scale to it. I don't think you should be able to help everyone in every corner of the galaxy with their PvP in 2 mins.

I think SWTOR has their travel times about right. Were they going to fix anything, I could see them shifting the balance of the wait times to a space travel countdown on the ship which would let you take a bio break or what ever and still retain that sense of distance..

And if you're going from 1 planet you've been to plenty of times to another planet you've been to plenty of times to help a guildmate, then back to the original planet afterwards.......... why do you need to go through all that?

There's no "content" to bypass at that point just artefact (of once used content) loading screens to look at for the nth time.

I do find it a nice change a pace on the few occasions you jumped in the airlock by some of the plot encounters.

And if you could speeder straight onto your ship, would losing the time to run through the space port and loading screens really do anything to any sense of distance?

You still get from 1 planet to another in seconds once you fly your ship.

Personally I find it plain bizarre that it takes longer to get through a space port than it does to get from a planet on one side of the galaxy to a planet on the other side.

The loading screens and pointless repetitive running don't do anything at all for immersion, they are just artefacts of story content.

Loading screens? Fades? Or cut scenes? What number of 'loading screens' are you tallking about?

Amen brovah

Personally I think it is too easy to change planets, the ride between planets should take 5 minutes or so in order to reinforce how much distance is being covered in the journey.

A lot of people would be fine with that as long as you eliminated having to click boxes constantly to start the trip.

Read words, does help sometimes: because - there - is - no - instant - helping - other - people - your - character - is - not - physically - close - to - in - SWTOR.

Please try to understand this...

Or it could (should?) be argued that 'why can't I heal my team mate that is on the other side of the map?' I've been on that side of the map before! or 'why can't I just jump past all those little pests to the end boss? I've been here before!' is of course also 'bad game design'