My thoughts exactly. While I can see walking around at a station having some gameplay aspects and would love it, adding a realistic cargo/refueling/repair scenario would be difficult. For that reason I don't see FD changing the way those activities work.
Exit poll of the official ship transfer poll
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My thoughts exactly. While I can see walking around at a station having some gameplay aspects and would love it, adding a realistic cargo/refueling/repair scenario would be difficult. For that reason I don't see FD changing the way those activities work.
Which is exactly the precedence that shows us that adding some "convenient" feature like instant ship transfers first is impossible to rectify later. (Whereas the other way round - removing a delay if it turns out to be as bad as some people seem to think it will - is always possible)
Looking at the design of both the loading cranes and the cargo pods, I don't think even if they did animate each individual unit of cargo entering your ship it wouldn't take longer than a second per 4 cargo anyway, although I expect even that to be too long for the highly motivated casual gamer... anything that messes with their bottom line, you would think it was a job for these guys 
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Official poll results now in: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/288348-Transfer-Poll-Results
Spooky. Who was the .29% that knocked the exit poll off?
Seems the exit poll was pretty accurate. Glad to see they're going with what the community wants.
Congratulations to Graxxor for a fair and accurate poll. [up]
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Yeah, that's been one of my major concerns about the instant ship transfer. Luckily it appears that instant is dead. I do wonder if instant will rear it's ugly head in the multi-crew feature, although I'm a bit less concerned if a number of players all want to login and join up on a single ship with friends. My preference would be to require all players to wing up and then transfer to a single ship but we won't know what FD has planned until the reveal.
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Thanks to all commenters for a minor threadnought and stimulating discussion which managed to go the course without lockage. Glad the results turned out similar to the official poll. I kind of feared what would happen if they didn't match! Tin foil brigade would have come out in force.
Anyway hopefully this will put this particular debate to rest for a bit.
Thanks again to all who took part in the exit poll...
Anyway hopefully this will put this particular debate to rest for a bit.
Thanks again to all who took part in the exit poll...
Maybe this also puts an end to the myth that forum users are radically different to all other players.
Based on one poll?
But have you seen the people outside this forum though? They're weird!
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Ok, that's me sold.No, actually based on 2 polls with matching results
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As was I. I'm very grateful they released that information.
Great thread, GraXXoR