I'll try not to use it too much on my first play-through. I don't want to ruin the game.

No, I'll use the paid carriages and boats :goodjob:

In Oblivion i used fast travel alot. After clearing out a dungeon and collecting my stash (im tight i take everything) i would fast travel back to town to sell it all. This always took many trips and there was no way i was gonna go walking back and forth through all that. Now if i had a wagon to transport all the goods i collected then i would have made only one trip and walked. So the one thing I need in skyrim is a wagon so i can transport my stash.

NEVER!

I want my first playthrough to be fun, not a speed run.

Yes, I won't lie: I will fast travel because it gets boring to run the same places 10+ times, no matter how interesting the view is it gets old at some point in a 1000+ hours experience. But, just to be clear, I use fast travel (as we know it from Oblivion) just because the game doesn't offer me a Morrowind-like paid transport. If they were both alternatives I'd use the Morrowind travel and never use fast travel.

thank you for this poll, becouse I want to state publicly that i will fanatically never fast travel in Skyrim. :rock:

Fast travel is like having a Babylon candle that doesn't run out! I have a bubbeling-candle!

Yup I will use it and always use it! I hate taking forever to get to places, I'd rather just get there so I can get on with what im doing

Same here. It saddens me that they abandoned a system that made sense and did its job well. I know modders can add it later for the PC, but I think a real trasportation should have been a game feature, it worked pretty well in Morrowind or recent games lik RDR.

Rather have the Morrowind system

Bring back the Daggerfall system

All the time. I love exploring, and I'll do it (especially at the start) HEAPS, but once I've walked to the same location twice I feel I may aswell use Fast Travel. It's a waste of my time if I'm having to wander between two locations all the time.

I hate fast travel, but I'd be lying if I said I won't use it occasionally.

i never even knew about fast travel in OB for my entire first playthrough then i discovered by accident while looking at the map i hope i do the same thing in skyrim

I have a question for those of you that never use fast travel (no flaming, It's a genuine question).

Do you still find it fun after 300h+? If yes, that's great.

I can do it for one playthrough, but that's it.

If one of you answer the question and the rest of you agree, don't fill the thread with the same answer.

I probably won't use Fast Travel much if it is by a magical map that teleports me. However, I will probably use Oblivion-style Fast Travel quite often.

Just like I did with Fallout New Vegas, I won't be fast traveling on my first play through, but once in a while on subsequent ones.

actually the fast traveling is not in question, everyone who hates it are eventually going to use it, since it is really usefull some times, i by my self used it alot back in oblivion, but recently i started a new game because i donwloaded a mod called open cities, that add all the citys in oblivion the the tamriel world, instead of being in separeted cells, in this playthrough i didn't used fast travel, only to go to really close places, per example, to move through the imperial city, since it wasn't opened by the mod, even tough oblivion wasn't "unique" i found some really amazing scenarious, and it was a really enjoyable experience, definitly, im not going to use fast traveling so often in skyrim , but i AM going to use it when i FELL is necessary

PLUS, probaly the map is going to be unexplored, diferent from oblivion, where EVERY CITY WAS ALREADY EXPLORED AND READY TO FAST TRAVEL TO.. in skyrim you will first have to find the major cities, before you can travel to them, now thaaats more like it. imagine finaly discovering a giant city , definitly it must be stunning

When I used to do the fast travel thing I also used to stop off at intermediate spots, but for a much worse reason: I hadn't figured out that I could drag the map around so I thought I was restricted to travelling to places displayed on the small portion of the map that was currently visible. Doh, etc.

At some point previously I'd foolishly accepted the "offer" of Fr. Maborel's paint horse--what's the opposite of "go faster stripes"? "Go slower patches", perhaps. Unsurprisingly I didn't bother to ride it around since it would actually be faster to drag myself along using only my upper lip than to wait for that creature to gather momentum. I'd still see it after travelling as it would materialise next to me looking miserable. Finally, one of my intermediate travels brought me to an Ayleid well inhabited by trolls, one of which chased the horse away. I never saw it again which was a bit of a relief, though I still felt rather sorry for it since it had probably been eaten.

Very, very infrequently.

It also depends if there are random encounters (both hostile or friendly) while fast-traveling. If there are random encounters, the fast-traveling wouldn't feel so anti-immersive IMO and i would probably use it a lot more.

if we don't have an alternative (transport, teleport...etc) then yes.

Can anyone confirm this?
I would LOVE if this were true. I don't want any locations on my map when I start to be honest.

I like the option to be there just in case but I don't remember using it too often in Oblivion, I like to travel and hunt animals on my way and sometimes by exploration or by simply chasing some deer I forget where I was going and find another dungeon and skip from one quest to another, at least that's how it was in Oblivion.

Never! I like to take my time for exploration and Skyrim looks very promising in that respect: more non aggressive creatures, variety in animal AI (that thing about the wolf packs sounds very exciting), caravans, dragons roaming freely on the map, I think there are enough incentives to walk and/or ride everywhere. Only a coherent system (similar to the silt striders from Morrowind) would make me sometimes use transport for RP-ing purposes, but otherwise fast travel is completely useless to me. I'm not rushing to "beat" the game or something, I don't mind starting a quest today and finishing it tomorrow.

well after i get skyrim i wont fast travel for quite a while unless i become hopelessly lost as i wish to explore this great land and its many cities and wilderness locations maybe try to stir up some trouble around town or pick a fight with a dragon