At this point in development, are there load times when going from orbit to planet or space to planet, or is the aim for there not to be?
TL;DRThe goal is no loading screens and seamless travel from orbit to planet without leaving your seat, though that may not be achieved in the first version, and they say they are working toward it.
The goal is not to have loading screens at all. The goal is to have everything be seamless. But again, we're pushing the internet in ways that it hasn't been pushed before. So we're kind of doing it in all of this. And I know, listening to the fans' reaction to the demo, a lot of folks are concerned about external shots breaking immersion and stuff like that. A lot of that stuff we're going to keep to an absolute minimum, so try not to bounce you out of your ship. I want to make it where from orbit all the way to the planet, you're sitting in your seat looking out your window, living through it all. Hopefully that's the goal. Maybe [not] version one, but we'll absolutely work towards it. That's what we're trying to do. I understand what you're saying. It's like, I want to live through it, right? You don't want to break the immersion by staying outside of the ship and blah, but we're getting there. We're working towards it. It'll happen.