Do you have a source where a dev confirms that fast travel doesn't cost any money?

Otherwise, at this point in time, all we have to go on for this particular detail is this German article.

It may be possible that the journalist Stephen Freundorfer might be compeletely wrong, perhaps we wrote incorrect information based on having heard about the carriage travel system, maybe he never used the fast travel system and was just guessing that there was a fee involved.

However, as for the translation, it seems pretty clear that Mr. Freundorfer claims there is some sort of fee charged for using fast travel. It's a very short word, "kostenpflichtig"

I don't see how it can cost to use fast travel. It's not a teleportation service as some people believe.

Anybody remember when Peter Molyneaux thought it would be a good idea to charge people real(U.S. Dollars/Currency!) money to fast travel in fable? What kind of response do you think that got?

Alongside the Fast-travel system from Oblivion will be a Carriage-system that takes you to other cities for a certain fee. This includes cities you haven’t visited yet.

http://www.psu.com/forums/threads/272164-The-Elder-Scrolls-Evolved-What-s-New-in-Skyrim-%28IGN-Interview-New-Info%29?p=5490686&viewfull=1

How many times do I have to post this !?!?!

IT DOESN'T COST MONEY !

Making it cost money is a stupid idea. While they aren't dumbing things down, alienating certain audiences - the ones who don't have all day to play and don't always want to spend 85% of their time walking - for the sake of others who don't like options they aren't forced to use... is just counter-productive.

We have known about the Carriage travel system for many months now. The Carriage travel service is limited to a few cities, per Todd.

This German journalist writes specifically that he played the demo and in order to use regular fast travel (not a carriage travel service) you have to pay money. He could be totally wrong, but this is what he wrote.

Or perhaps it's poor translation to the new and confirmed carriage system .
Devs won't say "aside from the fast travel system from oblivion" unless it's completely identical to that of Oblivion or they would have said "we have a new system" "we modified/tweaked/improved the system" which they didn't . It is just poor translation .
Did you have to money to fast travel in Oblivion ? NO !

Im not sure German Gamepro was even there....they did call they game at various points in there article The Elder Scrolls 5: Tuscany, Hot Pursuit, and The Old Republic....

And thats not what i quite when i read it.....

EDIT:And below.

EDIT 2: I forgot The Elder Scrolls 5: Cataclysm, and i want you guys to think about it this way...

Why go to the trouble of making a carriage system ( which i think has to consist of Carriages in places and a NPC to "drive" them, if there not real-time) if they were just going to charge you to skip the walk IRL?

Why would they keep fast travel and charge you for it if they made the carriage system, why not just get rid of fast travel?

Why charge you a (probably meaningless amount) of money to walk there? i guess as a convince, but thats what i thought the carriage system was supposed to do in part( along with providing an immersion-sensitive option for getting from place to place for whiny fans)

What? Why would they charge people to walk?

*flame removed, be careful who you flame, it could be a moderator or my mother*

I don't quite understand how this could be a translation issue.

The journalist, Freundorfer, wrote that it costs a fee to use the quest markers in his map to use fast travel. He wasn't talking about the carriage travel system.

He could be completely wrong, or misinformed, of course; however, if so, it would be due to an error on the part of Freundorfer, not a translation error

They were there. And no, they didn't call it Hot Pursuit or Old Republic, I don't know where you get that idea. Tuscany was merely refering to the scenery.

This is not a translation issue. The article is very clear that fast travel (not carriage travel) is not for free. What kind of cost is not specified.


Didn't know about the OP, but I mentioned it in http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1217303-german-game-pro-article/page__st__20__p__18253940#entry18253940 2 days ago. :shrug:

The translation of the entire article in the OP of the Gamepro thread seems to use primarily Google translation and that has a lot of errors and sentences that are hard to understand. Not to mention the fact that Google translated "Skyrim" as "Hot Pursuit" and "Tuscany" etc. in many places.

However, forum member -Glarthir-, who is German, translated this specific sentence about fast travel for us and that is the first time we heard that using fast travel costs money (or costs something, at least, as Faulgor mentions). At least, that is what the journalist Stephen Freundorfer is claiming.

(Link to Glarthir's translation: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1217303-german-game-pro-article/page__view__findpost__p__18267194

It kind of reminds me of Daggerfalls FT system. But without the chance of being attacked or finding an inn to rest in.

How did he know that it costs money to go to that certain city if he cannot use the fast travel system because he hasn't visited that city at that time .
Which suggests that the fee that he though was to use fast travel was merely a cost estimation for the carriage trip .

Apologies! I should have read through the entire thread. thanks very much for summarizing the key points.

I was reading the OP translation and I started getting a headache after reading about Elder Scrolls Hot Pursuit so many times, so I skipped to the last page and there I saw Glarthir's translation about the fast travel.

yay daggerfall style fast travel!!!!

That would be great. Reckless/Cautious, rest at Inn or Camp.

What ? it costs money to use your legs in daggerfall ?!

well, i get so rich by late-game that don't sell the dedric, just keep it as a trophy so a cost to fast travel is not a biggy, a little sad that they are going that way, hope its a a error

you could fast travel on ship stop at inns and do lots of fun stuff

This could use some clarification...

Idiotic :banghead:

No. It costs money to stay at inns while fast travelling.

YAAAAAAAAY :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

You made my day! I've had the worst day ever, but this actually made my day!

I would love it even more if boats were available, and such... but if not then this is a good trade-off!