i still cant get over people debating this

some complain its unrealistic (in a fantasy rpg where there are dragons, trolls, goblins and around 10 races including beasts) seriously thats a cheap argument.

Admins should really start locking this threads.

It's in the game, there's nothing you can do about it.

dont like it, dont use it.

For me it would be great! I didn't like either to see the silt striders were there all the time, waiting.

That's exactly right, they won't travel only for you. They don't exist for you alone and that is why that system in a game is unrealistic. Especially in a game where all the npc's have daily schedules and follow them. So having them there waiting for you always is very immersion breaking(for me) and since we all complained about static npc's in Morrowind Bethesda took out the stationary travel vendors and probably won't be putting them back unless they are dynamic and actually travel around without you and therefor are unavailable at times.

In red dead redemption, you could travel with coach.
This could work for TES.

you could hop on the cart and point out on the map where you want to go
(restricted for some regions which the coach thinks is too dangerous, and only travel on main roads.)
Pay 20 gold for 1 mile or something.

it would restrict fast travel and also make it more realistic.

heres a quote for you guys

""So much easier to get around these days. Not like the old days. Too much walking. Of course, nothing stops M'aiq from walking when he wants."" - M'aiq the Liar

get over it

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Didn't play RDR but that system sounds like one I'd like in Skyrim.

This

Same thing as sleeping in the wilderness in Morrowind: there's a chance "your sleep got interrupted" which means something attacked you.

Fast travel is not teleportation any more than waiting is time traveling.

Nice anology. :clap:

i haven't read a tes board in years and this topic is STILL debated? morrowinds was fine. oblivion's was more convenient if a character had an athletics skill i ran everywhere...but if no athletic skill was present fast travel was far less boring than the same tree 4000 times.

in morrowind there was pretty much nothing to see anywhere you went anyway, and anything was better than cliff racers constantly hounding you.

i'm all for either method being used in skyrim...if my ability to fast travel affects some roleplayer that's their problem i have better things to do then fight the same enemies on the same road for an hour because some idiotic quest in one county requires me to complete it on the other side of the country.

i'm happy to pay for travel in game

i'm happy to find travel stations (no silt striders in skyrim though, thats just dumb)

i'm NOT happy for random encounters. unless they're chance to spawn is attached to the difficulty slider...and 0% occurs at the normal difficulty setting. fast travel is a good chance for a bathroom break

i'm not happy at all and simply will not purchase the game if i'm forced to wander the frozen plains of skyrim for the entire title...and bethesda would be fools if they did that.

i would be happy to see mark and recall return. it screws up their quest design though if you can grab the loot and teleport out...just like levitation screwed up the level deign of having players pop back out at the entrance every dungeon.

the thing some of you role players have to realise is you can neglect the fast travel system if it's there....much harder for us to fast travel if it's not included at all. tes has always been about playing the game your way and as such should always be made to include features you can ignore if they don't suit you. i'm hoping the beast legs, spears, medium armour and crossbows return as well.

That's exactly why I want the fast travel to be in the game although I won't use it. I understand why others need it to be there. The only issue I had with oblivion's was my assumption (not necessarily true) that the devs built the entire world with fast travel in mind as a favored mechanics and that was the reason the Morrowind transport was left out. I'd never want fast travel out just because I don't use it, I just want a complementary system included.

Don't understand who would put up with losing stuff because the computer used a dice roll. Save game. Fast travel. You've been robbed, bandits took 200 coins and that dwarven sword you were going to sell. Reload save. Fast travel. You have arrived without incident.

Honestly, that system would be annoying for the player. A system like Morrowind as an option would appease everyone.

But they'll make a special trip, just for you! Same low price...

Daggerfall and Oblivion had fast travel, Morrowind did not.
Remember that Daggerfall had option for fast travel so one version cost some money and was faster, owning a horse also made it faster but does not remembering being attacked while travelling.

Not me it wouldn't.

I don't think that is a very good
idea becuase I don't want Skyrim
to be like Dragon Age at all.

Almost always random encounters? There are NEVER random encounters in Daggerfall when using fast travel.
Busted!

I'm all in for a fast travel option with random encounters like in Fallout (1&2), but restricted to the locations you've already visited.

I would assume Skyrim is many miles across, though being representative, it obviously won't be real world miles. That is why it should take days. And I don't mean you sit there and wait while it goes through game time. It counts down the days like resting counts down the hours. That's what it did in Daggerfall. Which meant if you had a quest that had to be done say in three days, if you were going to use fast travel you wouldn't be able to stay in any inns and have to travel recklessly which would result in more encounters.

Since this turned in to a debate about Fast Travel and how it should be done instead of the OP about it having consequences for those who use it, I will post the only answer I could think of to solve everyone’s problem from an earlier post I made.

The only way I can see how to cease this argument is to implement Red Dead Redemptions travel system. Have carriages and maybe boats or whatever to ride on in all major cities and in other believable locations, pick your destination (length from point A to B = cost amount), choose to ride and view the scenery or choose sleep (skip the ride), and also have the option to build a campfire anywhere out of harm’s way (away from enemies) to fast travel to a known location, sleep, save the game, and whatever else they want to add for us to do (alchemy, enchantment, repair items, etc.). Of course someone will find a flaw or reason to b**** about it.

Oh and I believe the system constantly moves around weather you are riding on it or not, meaning the coaches weren’t always at the same city all the time but would be on a schedule.

ala morrowind (for the most part)

People if you don't like fast travel don't use it, stop trying to get rid of it; I've had enough of these fast travel threads. :facepalm:
Does nobody realise it was optional to use FT in Oblivion!?

EDIT: Why does everyone continuously love morrowind like it was the only good game Bethesda made!?

Fast travel is not going to be removed, It keeps the action going and is entirely optional. I don't want to get a quest, walk for 20 minutes, then kill the bastard, walk the same path for another 20 minutes and turn in the quest. That would be extremely boring for me. But for the hundredth time, its optional and you can still play the game without using fast travel once.

This! A thousand times, this!

Map-click insta-travel: optional. Morrowind-style: there to use for everyone if they choose it. I don't understand what the obstacle to this is, personally.