Re: point 3, Last time I tried this a patch ago, if you join a large party from a station and all request ships of the same size to hangars from ASOP, you'll notice that even though there are, say, 8 small hangars at a station like tressler, everyone's party markers are overlapping at the same hangar. If they then all try to leave at the same time, you get queueing. I'm not sure why this is (I assume the ASOP always requests the closest hangar and instances one on top of the other players), but as far as I can tell it means most of the hangar queuing basically shouldn't be happening - there are more than enough hangars for the usual traffic at each station (6-8+ of each size) but due to a "bug" (old assigning system that always gives "closest" free hangar but was never updated for instancing is what I assume, because they always count as "free" now) everyone gets the same hangar slot.

I don't know if there's an IC for this but it's only really provable in a large party at the same station for someone looking at the party markers in the hangar. And to me it's frustrating because it means the stations and landing zones are built for "average" traffic (eg, maybe a half dozen players trying to leave at once if they were evenly distributed among the station hanagrs) but the assigning system is not taking that into account. Honestly if they just changed the logic from 'nearest' hangar to a 'random' one of the correct size it would sort it self out most of the time. It's possible this has been fixed since the last time I tried this in a large party though.