As I said, I'm not against external views via EVA or some kind of repair (or in ship (expandable) screen drone cam like NeilF suggests). What I'm against is having some external viewing system that has nothing to do with inner mechanics of the game par being eye-candy. And yes, the example I gave for abuse come to think of it makes for some interesting play, but if it is going to eventually happen lets not have it by some silly detachment of the game. If you are going to allow for that, give the drone something more to do, allow for it to be a mobile repair drone with a camera, give it a set speed where it will lose contact if the main ship powers away. Also, make it a damn bit of expensive equipment to lose if you have to hyperspace out and leave it.
On your point about the galaxy being too big, I would dispute that the galaxy is too big to have these sorts of traps. The game has just been released and is in its "foundation mode" so to speak. I personally believe, as time passes and ED grows in detail and player base, the core systems are going to be a wealth of multiplayer action, I think that is only a matter of time. EVE for example had a tiny player base when it started, back then the core systems were mostly bear. If you travel around those core systems now, you can't move without passing hundreds of ships in those systems. I think what you'll find happen in ED is a hell of alot of those ships flying around in these systems will be players as opposed to being mostly NPCs. It's going to get a hell of alot busier as time unfolds, the ability to pull off group stunts is going to increase massively. It's happened before, just like this, it'll happen again here.
