But that's the point. It sounds like fun, but now there is no need. The journey would be close to meaningless. Doing it in a long range ship is trivial compared to the FdL. I'd respect the FdL person, and they would (I assume) have a massive sense of satisfaction, dare I say 'fun', when they shoot their first trader there. Or go in a fast spawn in FdL shoot trader. Just like doing it in Eravate. So, that's the fun killed.
Fly back fast, summon mahoooosive ship, stack more missions, profit, fly back fast... no need to balance the speed of the return trip with cargo capacity. Reduces the potential for thought in the game, removes fun.
Of which none are suggested.
I don't get where the 'stop playing' bit fits in. Everyone keeps saying that, and nobody has very suggested it. You order the ship carry on playing while it is delivered and then go and meet it when it arrives. if you order it just as you're about to log off, then it will be there waiting for you. Combat zones last days. CGs last days.
Only, as noted, this restricts it.
Reasons given all over this thread.
Which are significant, as set out all over this thread.
Instant enables the most fun. But the hollowest, worst form of fun that is over in an instant (heh) and serves no purpose to make you feel as if you've gained. It's a hollow, candy-crush sort of fun. We have Arena that does that in spades. For some fun is being able to one-shot noobs, should all pirates be given a one-shot weapon because it's fun? Should we now forget the travel thing altogether because only pew-pew is fun, and fun trumps all? There are types of fun, and bashing the game balance does not make something more fun necessarily.
But flawed. So deeply, deeply flawed.
