Please give me one single example where the pilot teleports himself and his body on to a drone and then fly it! Enlighten me please!
And think about the information needed to be transferred if it actually where a telepresence thing, not mentioning keeping that direct line open without cutoffs over thousands of LY's.
Unmanned drones here now has an auto system to prevent them from crashing when the line is broken... and yes... it happens. Quiet often infact.
1) It happens in Star Trek all the time, another science fiction reality that is equally real to the Elite: Dangerous galaxy.
2) Who cares about teleporting the body there, I have zero interest at all in the in-game lore justification for how I can remote control a spaceship, because I am a real life human being playing a video game where I fly a spaceship and the reason I am that kind of person is because it is fun. If I wanted to do things that aren't fun instead, I'd do those things.
I have no, none, not one need for an explanation as to how mechanics in games work. It's really neat having them, and it's great when it informs the lore and makes the galaxy seem more alive. But when it creates real, actual barriers in real life to for example playing with friends, or flying the spaceship around, then all it takes is going "hey, it's a video game."
I mean, after all, a lot of dudes I've shot in open literally vanished from existence, and I've yet to see an in-lore explanation for why combat logging in a thing, or how players can log in or log off, or so on.
And that's okay because no matter how in depth the lore gets, it's still not real life, and I don't need explanations for why I can fly a spaceship.
As for "actually being on their ship," there is zero way that can happen at all anyhow, because
their ship isn't real. So it doesn't bother me at all that my in game avatar (also not real) that I never look at anyhow (because I'm flying a spaceship or working the turrets or whatever) is or is not in the cockpit. Additionally, even if I were in VR and looked over and
whoa a dude is there I don't really need an explanation for how he got there, or how I got there, because I know how he got there or how I got there: I logged into a video game.
I mean, yeesh. Play the game how you want to play it, nobody is stopping you. Just don't crew with people not in the same station as you. It will literally never, ever affect you whether other players are logging into each other's ships without docking. It only affects them. So let them do what they want, you do what you want. You can just pretend multicrew doesn't exist at all, and then you don't need an in lore explanation. You can just pretend they all met in the other station if you run into a ship with four dudes on it. It does not matter at all.
And because it does not matter, it is really, really petty and childish to try to make it matter to people who just want to fly a spaceship because you think that you have moral superiority in your video game entertainment selections by virtue of preferring more "realistic" games set in a galaxy where people fly spaceships with glass canopies and spaceships can just barely get over Mach 2 with some work.
Just look at yourself.
