Dying on foot gameplay loop still awful

So I took a mission to steal some documents from a base and this was my experience.

1 - Fly to the base.
2 - Sneak onto the base.
3 - Find victim to copy credentials.
4 - Sneak through building looking for locker.
5 - Get scanned by guard.
6 - Head immediately being blown off for stolen identity and if ran away then again head blown off scenario.
7- Get sent to prison.
8 - APEX back to the original station I got mission. 4 jumps.
9 - Request ship transferred to station. 5 min wait even though it says ship is in the same system but not exactly where.
10 - Get back into the ship then decide what else to do.

Half my experience was just waiting. Doing nothing game related. Time punished for the playing the game and trying a mission.

To be honest, I logged out and went to go mow the lawn. All my excitement this morning to try Odyssey on release and even being understanding that servers melted down and would come back up. All the excitement gone.

I've already failed the mission. Why the real time punishment? Why not just reload into your ship that was landed just outside the outpost or even in orbit. We already teleport into our vehicles as is. You can't tell me the computer code isn't there.

They have already blown my head off without trying to arrest me!

Did they clone my body just to send it to a prison and make me take a APEX taxi somewhere to then wait for a ship to be transferred to my new location?
 
It's a pretty shabby game loop and I to logged out with disappointment.

Frames are pretty bad on the ground also, so much for optimisation!
 
Next level awesomeness -
Died again in CEOS last night with a 1000 credit bounty. Do not pass go, proceed directly to jail 360ly away.
Figured I would just get myself home this time and buy a Diamondback.
Took a shuttle to a system that sells them:

Bought one. 1.5mil removed from my funds.

No Diamondback for me to fly home in at the station.

Maybe it's a glitch? Bought a second Diamondback. 1.5mil cr removed from my funds.

No Diamondback for me to fly home in. Neither of these two ships even show as being owned by me at another system.

Bite the bullet and transfer my Python to my current station and sit on my hands for ONE HOUR.

Get in my Python and fly back to CEOS and dock at a station.

My two Diamondback's still don't exist ANYWHERE. Even after relogging.

YOU OWE ME 3 MILLION, FRONTIER.
 
Next level awesomeness -
Died again in CEOS last night with a 1000 credit bounty. Do not pass go, proceed directly to jail 360ly away.
Figured I would just get myself home this time and buy a Diamondback.
Took a shuttle to a system that sells them:

Bought one. 1.5mil removed from my funds.

No Diamondback for me to fly home in at the station.

Maybe it's a glitch? Bought a second Diamondback. 1.5mil cr removed from my funds.

No Diamondback for me to fly home in. Neither of these two ships even show as being owned by me at another system.

Bite the bullet and transfer my Python to my current station and sit on my for ONE HOUR.

Get in my Python and fly back to CEOS and dock at a station.

My two Diamondback's still don't exist ANYWHERE. Even after relogging.

YOU OWE ME 3 MILLION, FRONTIER.

So like, 10 minutes of mining.

You'd think each outpost/station would have a brig that they put people on-foot in where they can post the fine and have their rep set back to above "hostile" if it's hostile and you can leave from where you were "killed" or do something else.
 
If only they had some sort of "Alpha" where everyone could give their feedback on stuff like this and then they could incorporate that into the final game...
 
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