Bug or feature?

My friend and I piled all our coal into one ship and managed to get it to the next sector; however, when we beam to his ship it's still in orbit of the first planet. We can now move between these two planets that are light years apart effortlessly. Is this is working as intended or a highly exploitable oversight?

 

That sounds like an oversight to me.

 

sounds perfectly working as intended to me.
Your saying on a multiplayer server with 50 players, whenever one player changes worlds it should force all other players to the knew one even when they are mining and working on their current?

Story/Lore/Realism wise its quite out of place, if thats an issue you could simply never use the one ship.

it also brings an issue of players working together still needed full materials each, which still isnt a problem or an oversight. However if two players push ahead as one, but the other is still waiting on the build a furnace things get tiresome.

 

It does seem a bit cheaty if you friend has not defeated the boss to unlock the next sector (but otherwise it's the only practical way to run multiplayer or otherwise it would be very difficult to ever meet up with your friends).

Perhaps they can restrict it so that you can hop between ships in a sector, but you can only hop to ships in other sectors if you've unlocked them?