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

Working as intended, and working just fine. Keep it just the way it is!

There are enough options available to keep travel time short, like fleet beacons, quick travel and emergency fleet beacons, I think the orbital stations are a good idea they give you a sense odmf the fact they are actually different planets.

Also not all the planets use orbital stations only the smaller ones(they are the majority though I guess) and to be fair it kind of makes sense although I admit it could be more fluid, say remove the loading screen from the lift it go with mass effect 1 style where you watch your character stand in the lift and go up.

Probably so the game knows which ship to draw. I'm surprised there's a separate hanger for Force users as they share the same ship model.

Agree with you. Cool post.

You can in a party, but not if you're in an Op group (as the hanger is effectively a story instance it's limited to non-ops groups).
They see your companions and can't pinch stuff out of your cargo hold.
If you go on a space mission they don't get to see anything, just you sitting there for 5-8 minutes.
Not sure what happens if they try to exit the ship while you're doing a space mission...

I love the posts defending it like it's some god send for immersion, walking through the exact same dock, corridor and space station add infinitum is immersing?

It's pointless.

I can only wonder how critical you're going to be of those who are anti-current system actually advocating a system that wastes so much time that you can AFK and do other things!

I am waiting with bated breath.

The thing that bugs me are the fetch quests where I'm instructed to go alllll the way over here, but the next guy needs to me to backtrack alllll the way over there so I can get another thing and return to him, then go alllll the way somewhere else in order to drop off a thing to satisfy some other dude.

Running, running, running.

Yep would like to cut out some of the requirements to get to my ship please. Totally over the shuttle/docking bay/running through the spaceport bla bla bla thing. Might be 'immersive' for some but certainly isn't for me.

Someone posted earlier in the thread about an swg kind of system, that worked great. You would simply click on your ship you wanted to either launch into space directly or fly to a spaceport on another planet. The whole thing only took a few seconds.

Hey for the people who want immersion have an option for cutscenes or something available for the player to toggle on. I'm more interested in the 'game' aspect as in where Im heading to complete something as opposed to the repetiveness of getting to my ship etc......I guess we should be thankfull we don't have to go to the bathroom and eat food every day ingame as well lol.

Being able to do other things isn't wasting time; it's better time management.