How about whenever a player teleports to a space station their mech is spawned in a mech bay at the station. I'd like to be able to fly around the outside of the station without having to fly my ship back from where-ever I was exploring. I'm not sure if this would get too weird with lots of players.
Ok sounds interesting but the only problem is the spawn animation shows it going out to space you would have to make new animation possibly.
I would argue you don't need any animation at all, it's just sitting there at the mech beacon when the world loads.