Choice of owned ship to enter

Didn't see this one anywhere - sorry if it is already in a list somewhere.

Rather than have another commander to play (although I suppose we could have both options) how about being able to choose your ship to enter at the game menu - much like we get to choose our group or whatever.

For example, let's say I head off to do some exploring. I am 5000ly's out and have been going for weeks. I might continue or I might head back, but either way I am completely unable to participate in any other activity such as community goals, or practice combat, or play the game in any fashion except explore for however long it takes to get back. This will definitely limit how far I am willing to go - if I know that once I start I cannot trade or do missions or anything except explore until I return.

I think it would be nice to be able to explore for a week or whatever takes your fancy, and then, once a little bored with that, rather than having to head all the way back before being able to play the game in any other role, if I could choose to enter the game at my stored vulture, or perhaps my stored T9, and play a little trading, or combat, or take part in a community goal, raise my rank somewhere ... whatever ... and then maybe next time carry on with my exploring. This would allow players to play any role at any time, and also not have to worry about centralising your ships.

I know it could be argued that this might hurt immersion for some but personally I have no trouble playing many roles and switching between them in different sessions - do it all the time in role-playing games.
 
HOPEFULLY in the not too distant future, we will have the ability to have more than one commander.
Another reason I hate this online play business, if it was a single player game we could have multiple saves and switch between them.

I'd love to play as a pirate or just a nasty SOB or even a pure bounty hunter now that the profession has a better income but I don't want to wreck the faction standings I have built up with my present commander.
 
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