There exists two standards of Fast Travel for recent TES players.

The first being Morrowwind's system of Ships and Silt Striders, suplimented by various spells such as Mark and Recall.

The second is Oblivion's "Optional" Fast Travel that allowed you, from day one, to get from any of the major cities instantly by simply touching it on the map. This was then suplimented with the ability to fast travel to any location out in the world, provided you had been there before.


These two systems have created a great divide between players with one side favoring the immersion of true to life travel and the other the convience of instant fast travel.


This is why I suggest a Magic Map Quest.

Those who don't want fast travel, or want the immersion of Ships and Carriages will get what they truly want and that is to use the world to travel. They are happy. They say "Give me a Mark/Recall spell and a boat to Solitude and I'm Happy."

Those who would prefer to have the option to touch a point on the map and just *POOF!* appear there instantly. Well they can use the Ships and Carriages to get to all major(and maybe some minor) towns from day one and then eventually they go on a quest (similar to Nocturnal's Skeleton Key Quest ie: Early on but not too soon) and are rewarded with the Magic Map of the Hero of Kvatch! Legend says he was able to simply touch any point on the map that he had previously been and *POOF!* he appeared there.

In this case, everyone wins. Even the Devs, who would need to put little effort into restoring Morrowinds Fast Travel Hubs in each town and we know the "Magic Map" already works... Well, a little effort, writing a decent Daedric quest to find a 200 year old Magic Map and, of course, adding some Boats and Carriages outside of towns.

As I see it, this could be no different then the Skeleton Key. Some want the challenge, some don't. Both remain immersed in their respective worlds.

See? Everybody wins.

This would require bethesda to actually add a transit system, which i seriously doubt they'll do... Besides I don't think those enjoying the oblivion fast travel model would enjoy their fast travel being called a "magic map"

Is this a joke?

Christ another one there are a bunch of other threads for this, if you want the Morrowind system so bad play Morrowind

Magic Map quest sound good to me. It reminds me of king's quest 6 though. (Alexander pulls out his magic map)

everyone always think they got the answer everyone can agree with, but there are gonna be a whole bunch of unagreeable people on this thread any second

If you want oblivions system go play oblivion? yea it's a terrible argument.

+1

^^ because there are already a couple threads on this, no need to create another.

I don't see this as a huge concern. I mean, of course BGS is going to make the game they are going to make and there is nothing we can do about it but from, say, a modder's perspective, adding one quest and some travel hubs is not a huge workload. It's a plausible solution to what appear to be a long running and impassioned debate.

And I don't think it needs to be called a Magic Map by name. I'm just throwing up broad strokes here.

^ thank you for pointing that out.

do you see me petitioning for Oblivions? no but a bunch of people that played Morrowind don't want the ES games to change at all

I agree completely with you, and if you didnt like Oblivion's fast travel system dont use it

Sure, but I'd prefer not talking about what should be modded in before the game is actually released..

@Mnit Please see my response to Swarley. Terrible argument.

I dont see why these threads keep comin up, we all kno were goin to get an oblivion type fast travel or atleast somethin similar (maybe to add immersion u get this 'magical map' in the tutorial)

No WE that enjoyed morrowind just want the ES series to keep doing what they did right, such as the morrowind travel.



Shut up, dude.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159604-the-we-want-fast-travel-alternatives-thread/

This one isn't full yet. Use it please.