I enjoy the fast travel, but only after I have hoofed it all over the world. It comes in handy when heading back to town sometimes, and visiting my fav. locations. When I rp with my chars I don't use it too often, but once in a while I do to get to places quicker to keep playing in the story/quest/made up quest in my head. Voted occasionally

Just like in OB, depends. If I'm sitting down for a long gaming session and I really want to get immersed I skip using fast travel. If I am just hopping on for a quick couple of minutes because I have other things to do but I have a quest bugging me I want to get done and its on the other side of the map, fast travel all the way.

Sure wont.

Now that the Carriage system is in. I'm going to try to use it less ( fast travel)

yes i will use it occasionally,specialty wend i am mostly encumbrance.

I will use it occasionally too, mostly when I do not have a lot of time to play, or when I just want to get somewhere quickly. But I will also go exploring, as that is one of the more fun parts of the games, to see what you can find off the beaten trail.

Gotta say the only time I'm going to use it in Skyrim is when I'm on say a 5th play-through of the game and I don't have a lot of time on my hands.
I started a new Oblivion character yesterday and even though I've played the game countless times, I still didn't use fast travel.

I think the key thing is to not play the game when you don't have much time on your hands. You have to give yourself at least a couple hours of solid game-play otherwise you will probably use fast travel

Absolutely, 100% Yes, I'll be using it. Nothing wrong with it.

I've used it exactly once in Oblivion after a door wouldn't appear because I missed one tiny piece of conversation. Had to go back for one sentence and then try again, while the fact that a doorway was not there because some conversation wasn't finished had already broken immersion for me.

Voted 'never' because I don't intend to use it.

Sometimes, whenever I want to go somewhere I havn't, I won't fast travel to the nearest point to travel there, maybe nearest city and then I'll sneak in the woods from there, hiding from dragons and giants and trolls and.. and slaughterfishes in the forest, the ones with wings.

I of course, voted "all the time", but I did not notice the above disclaimer on the poll.

IMO this invalidates the poll, as there is no such thing with Fast Travel (which is really just foot travel, but lets you skip the tedium).

FT does not 'magically teleport" you to anywhere. reasonable time passes, and the PC is assumed to have made the walk. Teleportation would not take the same amount of time as it would to walk there.

FT is broken, and exploitable (as we know), but in context is still not "magical", and IMO we should just hope that its fixed this time around.

As much as I have loathe fast travel since its intro into the medieval-esq genre (PoK) I use it when doing dungeon runs when selling items. I'm for fast travel being a spell or earned ability.

It is an "earned ability". You have to have walked somewhere first, the slow way, before you can fast travel there. (except for the starting main cities in OB. Which is roughly equivalent to being able to carriage/silt strider/boat there. Just doesn't cost a few gold.)


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Personally, I'd be all in favor of a chance of "random encounters" to take you out of fast travel.

I intend to walk to any new destination the first time, then use fast travel for future trips.

I enjoy walking and exploring, but travelling the same route repeatedly loses it's appeal after a while.

I really hope there is a mode with no fast travel unless you use something like a silt strider in Morrowind.

I will fast travel quite frequently after I have uncovered most of the map on foot.

I only started fast traveling around 200+ hours in oblivion so i figure i can put a "never"

Very infrequently/Never the big open world is an important part of most TES games, if Skyrims environment/world isn't interesting enough to walk through I'm not sure if the rest of the game is worth the time and if it's interesting the walking and exploring will be part of the fun so there won't be a need of fast travelling.

Anyone else notice that certain dungeons carried the best loot to sell in Oblivion? Like Fort Wooden Hand? I hope I am not spoiling it...
Anyways, if it is like Oblivion, and I keep finding the same 3 creatures in the woods that I can kill in 3 hits, and there are hardly any harvestable plants, and the same annoying bandit at crossing X, I will definitely use fast travel a lot. I mean, the scenery was nice and all, but it all started to look the same after a while, and I figured out how to replicate the foliage effects in game maker's 3D system. :grad:

I am glad about the tidbits and hints about adding more mysteries and danger into the game. So maybe it won't be anything like Oblivion and I may never use that magic map system. However, I will surely use the other methods of .... fast travel. I also like the idea of having bandits come out on the carriage ride and ask for your gold, or totally try to slaughter everyone. It reminds me of one of the books in Oblivion about the person who was sent to the marsh for some contract, with flesh eating bugs, and having a conversation during the ride with other passengers, and overheard some cultists or something, anyways I'm not doing a great job of explaining it.

Never!

I'll end up using it eventually.

But not on my first playthrough, I want to experience everything.
(GOD I WANT THIS GAME SOOOOO BAD) :banghead:

I clicked 'all the time', but of course you can only fast travel to places you've already been, so 'occasionally' would be the more accurate answer.

In any game that gives the option, I walk short distances and fast-travel longer ones. Even in Morrowind I take the boat or silt strider for any non-adjacent towns.