I didn't miss anything.... Correction... Your friend CAN join you at anytime provided there is enough space.... I randomly drop in on friends unannounced all the time. I love being able to see what they're doing right from the roster screen. Correction ... there is plenty of acknowledgement that they are fixing changing lots of things. They release a weekly update with planned patches and changes... This one mentions a rather large number of them, many they are keeping secret for the time being but will be implemented before Xmas... A previous update mentioned a rather large patch coming that is still in certification and will be added "soon". Correction... The story is fine there just isn't enough of it. But having played any MMO you'd know the stories in them usually suck and are meaningless anyway.... Still we'll see if they improve on it in the future. As far as Communication and being pulled to orbit well I won't argue that but the game is constantly improving so it's only a matter of time before that gets patched in.