» Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:56 am
OB Fast Travel (FT) just needs random encounters, but really, it needs to be Red Dead Redemptions FT with random encounters.
People need to see the difference between FT and Traveling services, Traveling services are good for roleplay perspective, but FT doesn't need to be tied to them like in morrowind, I would rather want it like in Daggerfall then.
I'm still rather annoyed that the OP continues the same flawed arguments in the opening post for the third time, even though that they have been discredited. Inserting a passage telling you understand the difference, yet leaving in a passage which contradicts this directly, is not very convincing. Saying you understand that OB FT isn't teleporting doesn't mean that it's okay to keep calling it teleporting. The three prime factors that is supposed to discourage not using OB FT, are still not objectively valid and therefore still not qualified for use as sweeping qualifications.
Not utilizing Morrowind’s system to its full extent, is still not a proper argument because FT being tied to specific play styles creates a roleplay bias against playing characters that aren't using those play styles, and so goes against the whole argument of including traveling services for the sake of roleplay value. FT is a mechanic for the player not the character, and so should be available to the player regardless of what kind of character he plays. This is of course ignoring that mark/recall/intervention is still not actual FT but rather functions like FT as a side effect, hence the bias, when real FT is tied to traveling services.