Im not completely trusting this. Remember that translated article awhile back claiming rivers would dynamicly overflow and change patterns?

I remember them doing this in daggerfall. Its supposedly to pay for whatever inns you stop by and buy food and drink from when you travel.

I would have to agree, I don't understand the point in changing it. The land's awesome enough to benefit exploring with or without fast travel and having it in but needing to pay for it makes no sense and is a huge mistake. My guess is that it sounds like they got the Carriages confused with Fast Travel, that could've happened.

Don't see how that works but if they really must then fine,
I c you might get a carrage when ft but that might not be an option, I don't want to pay to travel down a montain then through a completely unpopulated section? It's not like I can wipe out my mobile and call a cab. Also i may have my horse, which i dont remember being coin operated. As said above if you walked/ran it should consume stamina and leave you with a 'fatigued' effect when you arive that stunts your stamina dependent on distance traveled taking into account if you were on horse back or not.
A hard core/role play mode fixes this as fast travel would make you hungry thirsty and tired and there fore cost gold in the way of supplies, a more sensible in game representation of having trekked home.

My guess is that the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFKhuSXTdk has possibly influenced the system to be used.

Yeah. Attaching a consequence to it makes it a part of the game system, instead of a way to just skip part of the game.

Never use fast travel but I still like this. I might even use fast travel occasionally now when it has some drawbacks. Bethesda should remove fast travel entirely and just have many types of carriages in many places that all cost. Theyve done that (at least somewhat) in Skyrim so I suppose im satisfied. I'll just keep ignoring fast travel.

lol good arguement

I'll be modding this out right quick. QT is a time saving feature only.

you mean your all but FORCED into doing so if you cant pay to bad your walking and might die or get lost along the way or just give up and play another game altogether. all i can say is if they're sure about doing this gold needs to be more available or make the price minimal. because with how things are those long distance fetch quests are almost going to be not worth it.

I think gold will be plenty available. Always has been in past games. This will just be a minor disincentive to fast traveling all the time.

I think that charging gold for a walk using one's own legs is absurd, and that any such 'disincentive' is insulting and unnecessary; (As well as a major pain in the...).

I'd love this. U can't teleport wherever u want in just a sec unless u pay for that!

I would have preferred something more visible and explained, like buying scrolls of relocation and using them to fast travel, and resupplying the scrolls in magic shops.

Hmm, I like it!

Not exactly realistic. But fast travel itself isn't very realistic either. It's a step in the right direction but I wish they'd take a step further.

Further how?

NBD to me, I could care less if it takes money. It would only cripple those at the beginning. By 1/4-1/2 way in the game, you won't have a problem.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207074-how-to-have-a-cake-and-eat-it-too

I'm almost certain it was a mistake and they meant that fast-traveling using carriages (confirmed) costs money. Costing money for traditional fast-traveling would be both illogical and absurd.

Agree that it's absurd if it's just a replacement for normal walking, especially for shorter distances. I assume there will be some carriage type thing or etc.

For longer distances, I actually think it's fine to charge you. If you can't handle the inconvenience of walking, I'm OK with the game saying that your character refuses the inconvenience also, and catches a carriage. I loved the Daggerfall system.

And I do think the disincentive is a good idea. Just a sliiiiiight nudge encouraging you to stay in the game. If you don't want to, you don't have to, but it's good to give you a small material penalty for using a kludge.

Assuming they're saying you're using a carriage, that needs to be more than just implied. Have carriage stations set up at all the cities and larger towns, have a little animation showing you leaving and arriving via carriage. Most of all they should be restricted to public locations and not take you to dungeons and the like. Simply opening your map, clicking on any location, having some coin magically disappear from your purse and having a message or whatever tell you you're taking a carriage there is just way too abstract.

Yes there can be carriage stations on each town and village and some other places in the roads, and maybe some other accessible non-roads places as well, scattered around the map, and you go to any place that has a carriage station and pay to be transported to any other station, for a fee.

You could also gradually fill the boxed and containers at the back or roof of the carriage with your luggage from your previous house and, then pay more to transport them to a new station, and wait until you gradually move them to your new home.

If it does end up being normal fast travel that costs money and not just carriages then I wont be using normal fast travel.

I think that's nuts. I have no problem with (and would use) carriages, but one should always be able to open the map, pick a location (reachable on foot), and resume play from there, provided the PC got there without incident.

You are advocating player sufferance because its in line with your personal views on 'role playing' / simulationism; When other players do not all or always ascribe to that. In FO New Vegas, my PC had a broken leg and needed to return to Goodspring... and was limping. There is no justifiable reason to inflict upon the player the tedious and uneventful trek back to the doctor.

Some might erroneously exclaim, "But he had a broken leg! He could not fast travel" ~and this make no amount of sense at all... The PC would be limping all the way back, and it would take 4 times as long... the PC has his own problems to deal with, and the player should not be forced to live them as well... If the PC were attacked along the way, then let the player resume mid-way where the ambush occurred and deal with combat while limping... but once it ends, if they are so inclined, they should be able to have the PC set off for the Doc's on their own once more, and pick up the game when the PC arrives.