So this will be my 8th charcter? :confused:
Regardless I have placed a new rule with my new charcter =NO FAST TRAVELING! I personally have come to find out it takes away from the realism of the game, or in other words it's a snap back to reality it makes me realize that I'm just playing a game. So far I really like my new rule I've seen things I would have never seen on the road with my old characters because I always fast traveled with them. Things such as a spectral headless horseman, bird s**t, clever bandit schemes, DB assasination attempts, etc.

Is anyone else strictly traveling by foot/horse? For those of you with multiple characters, is one of your characters a travel by foot only character?

I use Fast Travel quite a lot, but I also walk quite a lot, it's kinda 50/50 with me.

But I always fast travel to that place with the Greybeards and places that are hard to reach.

I have a no-fast travel character, but she's been put on the back burner by level 11 or so. I still need to finish Thieves Guild and join the Dark Brotherhood on my first character, as well as finding the rest of the word walls and probably something else I'm forgetting right now. I'll get back to it sooner or later = )

I will do this after I finish my current playthrough (which is still my first haha). I used to do "no fast-travel" in the beginning and relied on carriages. The thing is that I started accumulating around 250 average weight in inventory (I still have no idea why, I think this may have to do with me stocking on resist element potions but never using them once) and I usually have to head back to a city to sell stuff I didn't need, and what's more is that sometimes the merchants don't have enough gold to trade soooo... yeah.

I should have a companion but since I'm a Stealth Archer it doesn't really work out unless I get a 1-shot-kill every single time (try doing that to a Draugr Deathlord). So yeah next character I'll prolly have a companion to carry crap thus meaning more time to explore and dungeon rather than doing a circular pattern of raid, head back, and sell.

I don't understand the poll. "Are you or are you not using fast travel? Y/N"?

my no fast travel playthrough is the one that showed me how broken magic was. i kept finding myself running out of mana, switching to a banded iron shield and pickaxe, and having a monumentally easier time killing everything that attacked me, despite not leveling any of the relevant skills, well into level 10. i ended up just using them all the time out of necessity and leveled block higher than my alteration...

so in short, im starting over that playthrough as a sword and board user :banghead: .

I kept starting over because I fell into the leveling trap again and again. But the fast travel? Of course I use it, when I want to go somewhere without any hassle.

I'm 60/70 hours into my first character. Still haven't used fast-travel once, though I do occasionally use carriages. Thankfully Beth listened to us and this time put a rp-friendly way of long-distance travel. I'm sick of magical teleportation that isn't mark/recall :dry:

I use it, but mainly because I hate wolves and they are freaking every where....and there's no horseback combat. So I'm either riding away or getting off, fighting them (1 sword swing each), getting back on and riding off. I have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDag6SDtHlo, so I did get to experience what traveling is like haha.

Really, though, I should stop using fast travel because a majority of the time, when ever I arrive, there's a freaking dragon. I mean, I like that I have 6 dragon souls in reserve, but it's a little inconvenient lol

Mark/Recall. How I miss thee. To dump all that crap I'm carrying into my house chest without having to walk like there's a stick up my bum... I would give up fast travel in a heartbeat for a Mark/Recall spell combo. Verily.

My next playthrough, I will do my best to avoid fast-travel, as it breaks immersion and had accelerated my (admittedly 100+ hour) first game far more quickly than I would have liked. I'll also take more care to do many more random guild quests between main quests.

I only let myself fast travel if I am adventuring and I fill up with loot. I fast travel to sell it off, then fast travel to exactly where I was. Other than that, no - unless you consider carriages fast travel.

This poll is more confusing than The Matrix.

I've tried to make a no fast travel game, but to no avail. The longest I've lasted was for an hour, I'm just to weak-willed sadly.

I don't use fast travel, but I've never forgotten I'm playing a game because of it either.

Of course I use fast travel. Why would I want to walk down the same road a hundred times, when I could be exploring new places?

I use fast travel because I have very little patience.

I don't think anyone truly 'forgets' they're playing a game, but games are meant to be immersive, even moreso than movies in many cases--and who likes to be jarred out of a movie with a good plot? Fast travel just breaks that fourth wall a bit. You can play without it, of course; I intend to next time through. There just came a point where I stopped and thought that it was killing the roleplay, and that I was missing out on a lot of the game because of it. To each their own, of course.

Yes, that place is hard to reach and should have had other means than just walking/riding to be able to access after the first pilgrimage.

I'm lazy and whenever there is an easy to use fast travel system, I gradually get drawn to it and loose a lot of my connection with the game, as I did in Oblivion.

I just wished that they would implement something like what I have suggested http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207074-how-to-have-a-cake-and-eat-it-too, and I would probably mod it in at the first opportunity.

And the High Hrothgar? problem should be solved by something like learning a spell/power/shout from the grey beards that would transport you to an altar there, whenever you cast it.

I'm pretty much an exclusive foot traveler - that's how I stroll.

The land is too... enticing to skip it. Plus I found it helps quests lengths a bit. Sure they seem short when you can practically teleport between the necessary locations, but when you are given one that requires you to travel halfway across Skyrim and you find yourself stopping to help someone then having to run from a dragon (or fight it) and then maybe get distracted by a Giant Shepard and you follow them for awhile at a safe distance, admiring the beauty of it all, just soaking in the Skyrim... well, it adds some time.

I sometimes take a horse, but the horse fails to entice me as much as enjoying a danger filled amble. If I could ride a better horse or even better a mammoth I dare say I would happily ride the length and breadth of Skyrim.

I use it occasionally, usually where quests seem almost deliberately far away. However, I prefer to travel via carriages and then travel by foot from there. I have used horses before, and they add a decent RP element which isn't actually inconsistent with carriage travel. However, I don't find them particularly convenient and I'm pretty sure my character can sprint for longer than a horse by now.

I used to have this problem until I tried the bow. Try using your bow to sneak hit / soften up the targets, then calm (cc) and Flame / Firebolt stunlock when they get within melee range

I'll tell you what, I've made one character and decided not to fast travel at all with him, hes currently level 28 and has been a hassle honestly. Maybe next time, ill only use carriages instead.