-1 Alloh.

their ships silently discarded (no explosions).

I think it might be better to have the ships stay behind and float in space while NPC's clean them up, perhaps flying within a certain distance, inserting a delay which is supposedly the NPC taking over the computer of the ship, followed by the ship autodocking. Later, if or when we can sell ships to stations and the stations offer them back, these ships could appear in the buy list. The money does not go to the previous owner.

Or something else. Just no disappearing.

Yeah, I agree. Disappearing would be acceptable to me in order to save dev-time, but from an immersion standpoint it would be non-ideal. As for an RP reason for requiring the ships to be outside, when the ship isn't being transfered, it can be due to the risk of explosions if something goes wrong.

Hmm, though I'm not sure how telefragging would work considering that we're transporting conciousness, not matter. That shouldn't actually cause any explosions at all (sadface), just break a person's mind.

So maybe that's not a good rp excuse after all.

I guess a variation would work: the process of extracting a conciousness has strange electromagnetic effects, so it's safer to perform it outside the station to avoid impacting the station's electronics. The implanting of the consciousness is somehow safer (yeah, lame, deal with it).

/me hopes this will never be implemented.

Just fly yer goddamn ship. : ]

Interesting idea but I favor the usual method for transport, even it is tedious to go a long distance. I meet other players...new, old and in between. Rp for pirates/anti-pirates, nationalists and just about every other guild would be negatively affected by instant teleporting. -1