That sounds too difficult to perform. We want the collection manouver to be quick enough to make it viable. If it takes too long, it'll be a waste of time, as you'll get shot. Also, if you miss, the person will be freefalling, which is unrealistic.

Also, another problem. Some weeks back it was "agreed" (I lose the therm loosely) that you could only enter transport ships by going up their boarding ramps, and hitting E at the top (to increase realism). This doesn't fit with CAAM's suggestion.

Ok, radical suggestion: You know how pods explode when they hit something? Could it be coded so when the pods explode, E is automatically pressed and the player boards anything he's touching.

Essentially you'd simply fly into the escape pods, and they would board.

I forgot to mention, ships with ejection seats would include (by lore) X-Wings, Y-Wings, A-Wings, B-Wings, and TIE Bombers.

TIE Interceptors and TIE Fighters do not have ejection seats.  While that doesn't mean you can't simply bail out of your craft, you just can't use the eject function unless your craft has an ejection seat.

Also, the ejection system would work the same in space maps as well as ground maps.

And finally, on a side note, certain capital ships may or may not be allocated several escape pods which would function quite diferently than fighter ejection systems.