Only using the carriages. Have to make the trek otherwise. Thems the breaks.

I never use it, though I do use the carriages to move between cities.

I never fast travel I only use carriage (and only to the cities I already know - first visit to he city is on foot). And I always sleep at night, I really watch the time, I leave the town for an adventure only early in the morning after a good sleep, and when its afternoon my main objective is to find a bed. If it takes me too long to clear a dungeon where there are people I sleep in their beds after I kill them and in the morning I head to a town to sell goods I took.

Recently I started go out at night more, because night are pretty (I figured I haven't seen aurora borealis very often) but it's still RP.

no fast travel, ever.

game is way more enjoyable then(imo), for a variety of reasons.fast travel almost makes it "laundry list" like instead of" hey im in a fantasy wrorld and to get from A to B i need to actually make these treks, on my own 2 feet or a horse" it makes the journey of this game so much more immersive.yes it consumes more times,but i have lost count of the adventures that have unfolded by doing this.sure sometimes(rarely) nothing happens out of the ordinary, but it doesnt devalue it at all.i highly reccomend playing the game this way....i will never do it any other way

Only fast travel when I know the path i will be walking I have done many times already, but even then I prefer the carriage I wish they would have done what was done in a few games like RDR and GTA4 where you can watch the scenery go by as you wait out the travel time it takes or press a button and just skip ahead to the destination. If they had that all they would need then is a fellow traveler hitching a ride with you to start convos or just tell stories or even have the driver do it. I mean they do this in the begining of the game. In fact i thought for sure the first time I got on a wagon it was going to be something like that instead of blink you are there.

New to TES and to single player RPGs, loving it. Keeping my fast travel to a minimum and end up spending most of my time gathering flowers and catching bees and butterflies lol. The little discoveries and mini adventures along the way to wherever I'm going make the journeys fun Oh and I'm also not stealing *anything*. Any other non-thieves out there?

I haven't used fast travel with this character. Mind you I'm only level 8 but I kind of like the challenge of hoofing it around Skyrim. The things you run across are fascinating, sometimes creepy and I don't want to miss out on the vast world. I may change my tune later on, once I've gone everywhere, but for now I'm enjoying the discovery one gets from running/swimming/sneaking from here to there...

+1 to no fast traveling

Also i can't wait for modders to add more things to the life/encounters in the world. Would make it even more enjoyable.

I mainly use a horse
Fast travel from time to time but quite rarely.
I still remember my first journey by horse. Started in Riften and travelled to Winterhold by this route :
Riften->Ivarstead->Riverwood->Whiterun->Rorikstead->Morthal->Dawnstar->Winterhold
Took nearly 5 hours (includind on-road exploration). Quite an adventure and one of the best experiences in Skyrim :thumbsup:

I tried not using fast tra- um, excuse me, wolf *gets off horse, whacks wolf a couple of times*.

Anyway as I was say- one minute, theres a spider attacking me *spams mouse button to kill spider*

Once again- bloody hell, a frost troll.... just forget it....

If i′m doing a questline i love fast travelling. Yesterday i rode from Whiterun to Riften, only on the road but sometimes stopped to watch interesting things like a firemage figting a frostmage or a traveller with dog fighting spiders (unfortunately the dog died ). Anyway this little "journey" took me 20 minutes of real time and if i had no fast travel i would go insane at the end.

Ive been walking a lot, It will be fun to see how long it takes till I get tired of it. but it is a completely different experience. I fast traveled a lot in oblivion, I think everywhere and I became very disconected from the world outside of towns Only played that game like 400+ hors though lol

Exploring without a goal in mind is one thing, its awesome to just adventure around, but when you've got a specific goal to finish a quest, fast travel is essential for those of us with a limited amount of time on this earth.

That's a good point. That one of the reason I gave up horses (that and I don't like the idea of my companion running behind me while I ride on my horse, just rude... )

Apparently fast traveling makes dragons appear more often, especially in Whiterun

I walk and fast travel. There's just to much stuff to do and not enough time for me to spend it walking for twenty minutes. If I don't feel like doing a quest I'll go exploring.

sadly skyrim was pretty much designed with fast travel in mind, making it much more tedious than it should be to not magic your way across the universe. speaking of which, magicking your way around the universe was a perfectly viable means of travel in morrowind, only it was actual magic and worked in conjunction with all your other means of travel to let you actually get to even more specific locations than fast travel in the blink of an eye.

seriously, just give the minor villages carriages and we would never have to walk very far at all to get somewhere. as it stands, its "use fast travel" or " sprint sprint sprint bear sprint sprint spider sprint sprint sprint walk walk walk walk walk walk....troll walk walk sprint sprint sprint sprint walk walk walk..."

and thats if your not an alchemist :shakehead: .

Radiant thieves guild quests broke my spirit. Fast travelled hardcoe for them.

BRB walking from Riften to Markarth, back to Riften.

I couldn't do it. I used to be a walker like you, until I took an arrow in the knee....

I tend to have better things to do with my time than stomp wolf/spider/bear #235415671483614736478361736871836176876817

I do like to explore out radially after I finish an area though, see what's about; that's fun.

I don't get much time to game, so I don't intend to spend what little time I do have, walking backwards and forwards from the thieves guild to the other side of the map. When I feel like exploring, or if something isn't too far, I walk. Failing that, my character has mastered teleportation. No stranger than invisiblity. Doesn't break immersion.

Some like it, some don't - if you don't, just forget it exists and stop whining :'(

I just use carriages, but only if I walked to a town at least one time (per character). I try not to use the actual fast travel, but there are moments where I do use it.

For example last night I cleared a fort and found a book that I searched for a long time and had only 15 more minutes to play. It would have taken at least 40mins to get to my home in Solitude, so I fast travelled and read the book, since I only read books at home.

But things like that doesn't happen all too often. Most of the times I stay in or near Solitude, when I know I only have about an hour left to play.

Fast travel or no? Depends on what you want out of the game. If you are an objective junkie, like my wife is with games (she LOVES the Lego series on xbox...say no more), she only fast-travels.

I prefer the journey, the planning, gather food in prep, lining up my route between objective points, having item "stashes" in my houses, and ignoring heavy loot (not like money is a problem in this game). I'm not interested in rushing through to get to the next game. I actually LIVE in Solitude...I spend about a week 'at home' smithing and doing alchemy, visiting the bar at night, arranging my stuff. No, I'm not nuts...I find that this way, when I journey, it has more of an impact...it just means more to me.

But if I had kids and a wife who wasn't a Sims/Lego addict, I'd probably fast-travel

Your going to stop fast traveling?

Some of us have yet to start.

:angel:

I walk to my objective and then I fast travel back. Walking everywhere is just a bit much for me, but I do it as much as I can take, as there are many great things that happen while I walk that I would miss if I teleport.

Even if there were options for in-game travel between smaller settlements like Morrowind had, I'd still be using fast travel. Not a chance I'm going to waste even that much time hauling everything back from clearing Ruin X than it already takes.

(Where is my 'fast travel when overloaded' perk, Bethesda?)

Avoiding it for exploration's sake (which you have to do already) is one thing. Avoiding tedium is another.