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

/signed.
Remove those useless airlocks where you walk to the ship.
As it stands now, traveling to other planets to help friends takes way too long.

Don't put words in my mouth, I only indicated I wanted the useless steps removed not that I wanted them replaced with more tedium.

Why can't we travel to a planet click leave and load up on the surface?

and from the surface to the ship. It's not alot of time saved in actuality but it's a hell of a lot of tedium gone.

Plant A -> Spaceport Shuttle -> Spaceport -> Take the Elevator -> Class Airlock -> Ship -> Traveling Console -> Class Airlock -> Elevator -> Plant C Spaceport -> Spaceport Shuttle -> Plant B.

There you go. Too much? Depending on individual's perspective.

I agree that the droid is annoying, makes me not want to use my ship. I wish I could just deactivate it or push it out an airlock.

So at what level do the orbital station come in. Ive only got to lvl 30 and not used one yet. i go to spaceport-ship-pick planet-land at planet then on my way.

Traveling I don't mind it's the time it takes and the steps it takes. It's really a haul between planets. I get it, time sink, yeah. I also understand that you're traveling to planets, yes. Point is that the game needs a good flow. Going from Alderaan to Taris is a multistep process that takes several minutes. If you're helping a guildie then two people have to make the trip separately.

Just put in a planet shuttle that costs a flat rate and exchange the time sink for a money sink. I'll gladly pay a couple thousand credits to bypass 10+ steps. And when I want to get to my ship and do space battles, then I'll go do that.

I have a feeling something will be added in because these threads then to get pretty long. So someone should notice.

My only complaint about travel in this game is the damn orbital stations.

There is no valid reason to have those above most of the planets. They are needless, irritating, and idiotic time sink.

I only read the first 5 pages so sorry if someone else had this comment.

My biggest gripe with the planet to planet transitions is that the time in space takes far too little time compared with the run through the airlocks/shuttle etc. Someone earlier wrote out what it is like to travel by plane going through an airport. Well this game is like flying from NY to LA in 5 minutes with a 2 hour taxi ride when you get there.

I do not mind the time sink of it at all, but the above is immersion breaking for me. I doubt anyone wants any additional time to even out the above imbalances thus making it twice as long. But IMO, more time in space is needed, and let us actually land our ship on planet more often, thus cutting out some of the necessity of the space station transit.

I get frustrated putting the ship into hyperspace only to be to the next planet by the time I hit the back hatch. Then it takes me 4-5 times as long just to run to the shuttle. Then perhaps 10 times as long to run through some of the ground spaceports (DK for example).

I guess my solution would be a couple to 5 minutes of flight time at least. Cut sequence of whatever length that starts as you leave your ship down to the space port on the ground, with an option to go to the space station if you have a quest there or just wanted to go there. Run through the space port as it is currently, with maybe more vendors or nonsense in the spaceport to liven them up. Monitors to assess pvp action throughout the galaxy from the spaceport to see where you might want to travel to would be an idea

I have absolutely no problem with this segment of the game.

There isn't a face-palm image big enough to convey the nonsense of the above.....