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

there is no difference in traveling to a planet or traveling to another zone in wow or any mmo for that fact......you will have to travel in mmos get over it

there is no difference in traveling to a planet or traveling to another zone in wow or any mmo for that fact......you will have to travel in mmos get over it

^^This. A thousand times this. But the reality is the self-indulgent whiners simply do not want to face facts and verifiable evidence.

It's just much easier for them to complain rather than bring constructive criticism to the table.

I have no problem with it! I just would prefer that they do the loading in the background.

if travelling would mean to travel with my character or at least watch his ship fly to and fro - but the majority of the travel time is spent watching loading bars.

Goal: Get to Republic Fleet.
Steps:
1. Find Shuttle
2. Chose Orbital Station
3. Wait for the loading screen to complete
4. Run through Orbital Station (1~ minute of running)
5. Click Elevator, Chose Airlock
6. Wait for scenery change (10 seconds)
7. Run to Class Airlock Room (1~ minute of running)
8. Enter Space Ship
9. Wait for loading (20~ seconds)
10. Run up to the Galaxy Map inside your ship. (5-10 seconds)
11. Click Fleet
12. Wait for scenery change
13. Run down to ship exit, click door.
14. Wait for loading screen (1-2 minutes depending on performance)
15. Arrive at Fleet
16. Do your business.

16 Steps? Really necessary? This whole process takes like 10-15 minutes or even more, depending whether or not you're close to a shuttle, assuming you even know where the closest one is.
Get your **** together. We don't like _pointless_ traveling like this. Your game is NOT FUN.

However in SWTOR you wouldn't be able to do that, you'd have to sit at your PC for the entire journey negotiating Loading Screens.

So whilst the maximum journey time in SWTOR is shorter, equally this is more than negated by not being able to do it AFK and indeed literally having to sit their and start at loading screens before running a bit to another loading screen.

This is just bad game design.

Well this one doesn't take 25mins. It takes 5mins. So no need to go watch TV. Also if you have long load screens you can go get something to drink. Water is good for you.

But you can't because you don't actually get anywhere, you get from 1 side of a loading screen to another, an in game journey of no real distance at all.