Space travel and how it works is such a GREAT mechanic for a 'loading screen'

The fact that friends can teleport to your ship, do stuff, as well as yourself all while the planet is being loaded with no impact at all to the game is just awesome, so, MASSIVE kudos to da chucklefish devs, every time I fly to a new planet and hop off the captains chair to go into 'cryo'-hop in my bone bed-, it's just awesome.

 

It actually takes far less time to load than it does to travel on almost every system, if not every system.

 

It would be cool if we could skip the animation

 

It's quite ingenious. I'm surprised more games haven't done something similar.

 

It loads the planet you're going to while it plays. Skipping it would make you have to wait anyways. Might as well have a pretty animation to look at.

 

Agreed. It's really neat.
This sort of loading screen solutions seem to be more and more common in games lately, witch is awesome.

 

Man, so true. I love when flying to another planet. The sound effects are great too, esp with nice headphones and an arcade machine on board

 

Not when the pretty animation is significantly longer than the load time and you see it all the time.

But of course it needs to stay because skipping it would make the game too easy, since hard == time filling, mindless grinding.

 

I think it's kinda nice and comforting since I can do other stuff inbetween planets. Like read up on the forum, prepare for the next planet and so on.

 

Reading the forum comforts you?

 

No it wouldn't, the planets load in seconds.

 

A lot of them do, actually. Any time a game has you stop - An elevator, a car drive, a cutscene, trolley ride, whatever, they're often used to seamlessly load the next part of the content. The harder it is to see the seam, the better. This game, because you can still play and move around and interact during these "loading screens" in warp, is probably the smoothest and most immersive transition I've seen yet.

 

I just make stuffs while I warp..

 

Hell you can LEAVE your ship mid transit and come back later and it will be sitting at the planet, did that earlier and it just made me smile at how awesome that is.

 

Sounds quite like a bug. Needs to be fixed!

 

I hope that is supposed to be sarcasm.

 

Space travel as a loading screen is neato. Now, the fact that the loading takes the same for any planet you visit since the engine and scope is the same is a little off.

30 seconds to go to the furthest point of another sector, 30 seconds to go to the planet right there in the background. Science!

 

Wat is faster than light?

 

I had some really witty reply ready to say to this, but then when I hit the reply button, I completely forgot it. I am so fucking upset right now, you don't understand.

 

Relativity my dear Watson.