Obviously horses will return, but wouldn't it be cool if your character could get in a small boat and use a paddle to explore a lake? Or as some have speculated, you may possibly even be able to ride a dragon. I personally think riding dragons sounds unlikely, but I don't see why they couldn't work in drivable boats, or maybe even another type of creature that the player could ride.

Realistically? Most have settled with the dragon representing Akavir. Yes I believe there will be a dragon, but i think it will be like the fragon from Merlin - an advisory capacity, get quests from it (sure if you're strong enough maybe kill it) or perhaps a clan of maybe 5 or so dragons. - So no to the riding a dragon idea.

But for transport, Horses, carriages, other means of traversing land. I think they should abolish fast travel BUT have these alternate types of transportation (like stilt striders from MW). Going into your menu and clicking somehwere to appear there isn't very RP'ish is it? But going into town and paying for a boat ride, carriage ride somewhere definatly is. It would also encourage people to ACTUALLY explore the world BSG have spent so long making.

The best part of Oblivion was not using fast travel, and walking places, sometimes going off road just to have a wander, and coming across goblin caves or dungeons (admittedly, the dungeons were generic and not the best, but still)

tl;dr remove fast travel and include alternative travel options.

I would not like to ride a dragon but I would like to have a boat or my own pirate ship for example. That would be amazing.

I don't want fast travel for a start it was kind of stupid in some ways, the idea of quick traveling to pass time, we didnt have that completely in Morrowind, but did it ruin it? No you had a sit strider and mages guild travel systems to me that was enough, but horses I will accept as well because it means its more realistic.

If they take out fast travel they better add something to keep me entertained on the road. Like skipping

a sleigh ride pulled by a team of Bosmer.

definatley add something like they did in Morrowind. So 'fast travel' wouldn't be to just anywhere..

furtunately, an Oblivion mod added boats and carts for 'fast travel' service.

I want the next adoring fan to be my personal mount. Fast or not as long as I can prod it along with painful spurs.

Yeaahhh... Masterblaster with Bosmer!

A better way to add a new means of transportation is by looking that the one that was taken away before but it does what it does.

For starters, dragon are not really like that of Erogon or whatever fiction dragon were depicted. Unless ya with the Empire, they will think ya a lower being snack. They are not ganna let anyone ride on their back. They are too highly gods and pride to be like that. Before we go asking for more mount, we need to clear the basic for horse. Namely, mounted combat, control where they at, their waypoint, storage, even healing them. I would like an system to be incorporated in making Horse useful. Hell, riding a Horse can level up Athletic just running on full speed.

As for "fast travel", Articus kind of have the idea and I would add Teleporation spell, namely Mark and Recall. We can even add steroid to it and have more than one Mark area (like slots, which can be overwritten) and recall it anytime one like, like one Mark at Home, another at a Quest Place, and another at a Market Area. Then we should let the "Mage" Guild have the service of Teleporation, but only to the Guild Hall they visited, so the player cannot just go to the other side of the map unless the Quest let it.

Bosmer?!

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EDIT: Just saw your post Qawsed, I definately think we need mark and recall back, but perhaps 2 marks? 1 was balanced and fair, but more than 2 would be unbalanced and sort of take away from the game a bit. But I would be happy with mark and recall from morrowind, with just the one mark.

Mages guild teleportation: Hmmmm .... It WAS useful in MW but im not sure ... Perhaps if it wasn't instantaneous, like you were sent to limbo and then slowly summoned into the other mages guild (yes only to ones you have visited so they can get an 'imprint' of you or something, w/e). Maybe not even as I said it, but something so that time passes (like with stilt striders, it took for eg 3 hours from Balmora to Seyda neen.)

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there should be fast travel stations, so you come across a horse drawn carriage, and hell take you to any of your discovered locations.

They need chirvine for the snowy mountains. And banshees.

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I liked the way the gondalas worked in Assassin's Creed, maybe they could do something like that...
Other than that, what about large beasts (sorry, i'm thinking of Silt Striders :facepalm: ) where you just sit on them and they travel faster than on foot.

I just don't want fast travel to return, make... fast-er travel :biggrin: