Most needed: remove shuttle bays!

A lot of people citing "immersion" as to why this doesn't need to change. What exactly about the load screen draws you into this game more? It's a cumbersome setup and it needs to be streamlined.

They should add an extra passage or 2 to get to your ship just out of spite for the freaking lazy people. Really, it's not that big of a deal. What they did is give you a realistic feel for what it is to land at a planetary spaceport. BioWare even decided to make people with ships have their own private space station hangar so they can feel like special little snowflakes while the poor shipless folks have to foot it ;p. Really though, it's not a big deal to take an extra 30 seconds to run to your ship.

My reasoning in taking out the hangars is two-fold.

1. Instanced hangars add another "black load screen" that, for me, breaks immersion more than the idea of streamlining travel.
   • Current travel to ship = Class Hangar Door > Area outside Class Hangar Instance > Class Hangar Instance > Ship Door > Ship Departure Cutscene > Ship Interior > Galaxy Map selection
   • A more streamlined travel should be = Class Hangar Door > Ship Interior > Galaxy Map selection > Ship Departure Cutscene
   • Streamlining loading areas should be a priority, even if they are a personal instance.
2. Hangars are empty, save for your ship.
   • Good for ship exterior admiration, but nothing else.
   • Add vendors to the hangar bay perhaps - ship upgrade vendors specifically.
   • Even random droids or NPCs doing repairs on the bay would be welcome.

Those chunks of time add up. Is it the most pressing issue? Nope, but you have to wonder why it's there.

raid 0 SSD, ~200 meg copy transfers. 480ti video, amd Phenom II x4 955 with 16g ram.

~4:00 to get from taris to alderan.

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Love your summary, it's completely 100% right on the loading screens and the problem. You mentioned the 2-3 elevator type dialogues and all the pointless running through empty corridors and stations. There is no point to adding 1m of walking and dialogues just to got onto or off a planet.

This is even worse once you're 50 and start doing Dailies and PvP. There is simply no point to any of it other than to waste peoples time. Immersion is feeling like you're part of the game. What part of walking through empty corridors makes you feel like "wow, I'm really part of the Ilum offensive now that I'm in an empty corridor on a space station with 2 people and a droid!".

This is just as pointless when doing Flashpoints. For some unexplicable reason, they decided to make the respawn point if you wipe in a Flashpoint IN ANOTHER ZONE. You have to hit a loading screen to release, load the planet/zone you entered from and then load in the instance again. For the majority of us that don't have SSDs this adds an extra 2-3 minutes just to even get into the instance to run back to where you were. Even if you're lucky enough to have a top end CPU and SSD, you're still dependant on the other 3-15 players you're with and chances are, one of them will have a low end system and hold you up.

What is the benefit of horribly bad game design? Do I want to spend 5m per planet traveling when I only get 2 hours to play a game at night after a 9-10 hour day at work? That means that every night when I do my 50 dailies and PvP dailies, I'm doing anywhere from 30-40m of loading and walking through pointless, empty corridors out of my 2 hours of play time. 25% of my time is spent doing absolutely nothing close to fun.

But there are also a 100 other bugs, game design flaws and missing features that they need to fix or add. I'm not sure where this ranks, but I feel like it's in my top 10 things that need fixing/addition.

You do this when traveling to dozens of planets. I don't see why I need to travel through no less than two empty, non-gameplay zones to get to the main questing zones.

For example, to get from Imperial Fleet to Hoth:

• Start at Imperial Fleet
• Go to Hangar Elevator
• Go to Class Hangar (<-- there are no vendors here, you can't even begin private conversations with NPCs)
• Enter Ship
• Go to Bridge
• Use Bridge Map to go to Hoth
• Exit Ship
• Go to Elevator
• Go to Adamas Station (<-- there are no vendors, just tone quest giver tha t could be moved to Dorn)
• Go to Departing Shuttle
• Arrive at Hoth Dorn base (as Imperial)

That's very convoluted and wastes an incredible amount of time.

Yeah, I'd like them to change it so that you only get the flight cutscene after you have chosen a new planet to go to.

lol great post. Me and my friend got our ships and then got off them to quest. After we were done questing we thought maybe we can call in our ships or something to get back in but no..... we had to go back to the area where we got dropped off after the loading screen. Waste of time if you ask me.

From Imperial Fleet you should be able to immediately access your ship. The hangars can remain for mission instances, but that's it. It's annoying running through extra zones of nothingness, moreso even at lower level without faster modes of transportation.