Personally, I feel as though that in this particular instance, the veil between realism and gameplay should be blurred. The only real way to ensure realism is to basically calculate the jump range of/fuel capacity/scooping capabilities/SC transit time to make sure that the time it takes your ship to be brought to you is the actual time it would take for your ship to arrive. A flat rate based on distance would not be realistic. Personally I feel as though the fact that transferring to a different ship is near-instant sans the loading screen, where as realistically speaking our pilot would be getting out of the seat, walking to the airlock of the ship, locking everything up, exiting the ship, moving through the station corridors to the hangar where the other ship is located, waiting for it to be brought out of storage, moving in to the airlock, unlocking everything, and then sitting down and waiting for the holodisplay HUD to boot up and the ship to be brought to power. Not to mentiont he fact that refueling a ship wouldn't be an instant process, nor would repairing/repainting a heavily damaged ship. Or even having commodoties being added to the cargo hold. All of that would, realisticlly, take a few minuts up to the case of heavy repairs taking at LEAST a few hours. We already blur the veil between realism and gameplay in instances like these so to make people wait an arbitrary amount of time for a ship/module transfer would be silly.
Now granted in later on down the line, situations like these are made slower by the fact that we are able to get out of our ships and explore stations and actually have to swap ships manually...then maybe. Perhaps we could head down to the space strip club at the local Pilot's Lounge and have a few drinks with buddies while we wait for our fancy combat ship to be transferred a couple hundred light years? Haha.
In any case, that's my reasoning for my voting for Ship Transfer to be instantaneous. At least for the foreseeable future.
Now granted in later on down the line, situations like these are made slower by the fact that we are able to get out of our ships and explore stations and actually have to swap ships manually...then maybe. Perhaps we could head down to the space strip club at the local Pilot's Lounge and have a few drinks with buddies while we wait for our fancy combat ship to be transferred a couple hundred light years? Haha.
In any case, that's my reasoning for my voting for Ship Transfer to be instantaneous. At least for the foreseeable future.
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