Haven't used it and don't plan on using it. Not sure if I would call it cheating persay, but I think people that are using it are missing out on a lot of the game. To each their own though. I actually like the feeling that I get by travelling to my destination. It makes the world feel absolutely huge.

I never use it. I don't consider it cheating.

I rarely use it, unless I plan on topping playing soon but went to finish a quest real quick. That or when travelling from the College to my house in Whiterun, because making that journey as many times as I would have to would be tedious.

I don't really use it. I like the immersion of walking through the vistas and absorbing everything. I tried the carriage when I was in Iverstead, but he wouldn't move. I'd climb in the back and just sit there. svcked too because I was over encumbered and wanted to go home. I ended up dropping enough to hoof it back to Whiterun.

Lol dumb question xD

why Isnt there a choice for people that dont use it and dont consider it cheating? Seriously, if a feature is put in a game, why would it be cheating? Not everyone plays the same way.

As my opinion no i do not believe fast travel is cheating. And immersion should not be damaged either. Anyone who has ever played table top rpg understands the importance of fast travel. You are not gonna play out each day on a 5 day journey cross country to your destination. However most table top dms have a random encounter that can be generated while enroute. So lets have a chance that your fast travel gets interrupted by a dragon or angry giant, Maybe even the rival faction you have displeased.

Personally, I don't use it and I never have. However, I wouldn't consider it cheating by any stretch, Skyrim has a huge map and it takes quite a long time to traverse, on some occaisons people may only have about 20 minutes to sit down and play the game and traveling from point A to point B can sometimes take longer than that. Its a feature that appeals to casual gamers, for the hardcoe we mostly just ignore it, in fact I forgot it was there until I saw this thread title.

One of the disadvantages to using fast travel all the time is that you will miss out on MANY random events that happen while you travel.

Edit: I have used fast travel in Fallout 3 but only when my game crashed after I had reached a certain destination. So in that respect, fast travel can be useful tool if you're game crashes and you didn't save. Other than that, I don't use it.

When you start the game, you cannot fast-travel anywhere. In order to fast-travel to a location, you have to make the journey to the location in the first place. How's that cheating yourself of the journey? It is not that you are going to find completely different things every time you walk back and forth from one point to another...

It's a good feature and it saves me the tedium of being forced to go back and forth between places when I want to go somewhere really quickly

I love people who say "I'm not really into the immersion thing".

Why the hell do you play video games then?

My thoughts exactly

I must admit I used it a lot but as of yesterday I decided I was going to start walkign more and it made the game so much more enjoyable so I am going to try and stop myself from fast travelling and If I must use the horse and carts instead.

Keep it.
A good feature it is.
In the future, carriage/boat travelling should all be in real-time with the payoff of random quests being generated throughout the journey.

Even as an immersion fanatic, I do fast travel a lot...and by a lot I mean every chance I get. It's really easy to roleplay fast traveling. It's called walking. All you have to roleplay is that you walked there and it simply didn't show it out of consideration of your sanity. This is further implemented by the fact that time does move according to where you travel. For example, if I travel to Riften from Solitude, I arrive on the morning of the next day.

Besides, to fast travel, you already know the destination. That's another thing that makes it still immersive. You know where it is, therefore, you can simply walk to the point on your map.

I wouldn't consider it cheating per say, but it certainly breaks the immersion for me. I've used the carriage service once, but other than than I've hoofed across Skyrim. I don't even feel like fast traveling, cause there's so much to see and do. The one time I used the carriage was because I had to go to home to Whiterun and unload a bunch of crap and was eager to upgrade my house, so I just took the train.

Not cheating, its implemented by the devs. I use it, as a long time TES player, it doesnt break anything for me. Just saves me time walking from A to B.

pretty much this

I use it, because I can barely play. I play 45 minutes in the morning before going to work and I don't want to use that little time to only go from one place to the other. I've played 10 hours last week-end and I took my time for travel more, but I still used fast travel quite often. I don't even loot everything I see when I play in the morning.

No.

it's a feature built into the game. Is this a serious question?

i use it. but also enjoy walking around

I only use it when I wantto do things quickly, or I need to get home fast to offload that 334/335 in junk I got from that big ruin. Mostly though, I walk and run from place to place.

Fast travel is for when you need to make a quick trip to market or your house to pick up or drop off items. I should not have to back pedal the last two hours I spent exploring just so I can go lighten my load.

You've left out the one option that would probably have been the most adequate :

"I don't think it's cheating, but it breaks my immersion"

Now that carriages have been added back, I can safely disable Fast Travel, though.

Nah, not cheating, it's your game, if you want to use it, use it. I don't, because the game is more fun to me if I don't.