*Sits and waits for Earth Space Dock to load*

Meanwhile, on Earth Sapce Dock, all the newly commissioned f2p Lieutenants are happily beaming in...

If you're sitting in the load screen how do you know what the FTP players are doing?

Well before i changed instance was recruiting noobs into my fleet and helping a few out

cannot believe the amount of leutenants that have been beaming in

Loading and log in are not the same thing. Gold members bypass the login que, but that has nothing to do with loading screens. That said my loading screens are very fast.

Earth Spacedock is just about the only slow loading screen I ever get, probably because it is getting a lot more use these days.

Starfleet Academy is a busy place nowadays.
More people to fight the Borg. Excellent!