This game is too awesome to look at not to travel by foot at least part of the time, even if it's a long distance trip. I usually feel like the quests have a bigger sense of accomplishment if I hoof it the whole way. (Especially going from Markarth to Riften.) Now, if I'm off on some adventure and I suddenly realize I forgot some item that I need from my house (whichever one it might be), then I usually just fast travel back to get it. There are situations where it just makes better sense to take advantage of the fast travel system, at least for me. To each his own, of course. Typically, though... I'd say that I use fast travel maybe 25% of the time. Besides checking out the scenery, like others mentioned here, there are just plenty of cool things to discover or events to stumble across when I go on foot. I'm also tinkering with Alchemy, so it's a great opportunity to pick up ingredients.

Teleportation would be the same as fast travel but it would be better justified within the world. For instance, fast travel implies that you're really walking, but if you were really walking, then you'd have more chances of getting in fights in the meantime. If it was implied that you were actually being teleported and if they made it so it would make sense within the game lore, then it would be easier to suspend disbelief.

My fallout inspired suggestion would just make fast travel different so that it would better simulate the action that is implied, which is walking. The main thing is making distances matter in you decision making as it does with walking. Right now, distances don't matter if you're fast traveling.

Everyone does.

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On my first charcter I almost never used fast travel. I ended up with my questlog full of quests that I never finished since they required that I travel from one end of the map to the other mostly. When my log had 35 unresolved miscellanious quests and above that 10 ordinary, I simply was stressed. I couldn't enjoy the game anymore. I just wanted to stroll in the nature not having 45 unresolved assignments on my shoulder. If I solved a quest I didn't have a clue why, and for whom I was doing it.

I now take a quest, and try to do it immedeately. If that involves fast-travelling, so be it.

I don't, and I've truly never felt the need or desire to do so at 70+ hours in.

I find Skyrim to be a perfect size for traveling by foot or horse wherever I go, and there's always something to do on the way. I get distracted a lot, or pick up on side quests along the way. Sometimes I plan out my journey so I can hit multiple quests along the way, and it works out perfectly. It also prevents me from over-looting and becoming ridiculously rich too fast since I can't constantly sell off loot and have to be picky about what I loot.

Game is perfect for me without fast travel. Plus, it's too damn pretty in Skyrim to miss a single day! :thumbsup:

Negative, soldier.

I sometimes use the carriage from Whiterun to Solitude, that is it. This game is a journey enjoyed "slow".

In my Roleplaying file I use it to accelerate time but I'm not jumping from Markarath to Riften, that would be too far.

Once - when I got stuck in a crack in the mountains...

Never. Although sometimes the journeys can be a little uneventful and dull, it's far preferable to having your immersion stabbed, disemboweled, shot in the knee with an arrow, hanged, drawn and quartered, and burned at the stake which happens when you fast travel.

I go about half and half. If I have to go from one side of the map to the other, I fast travel. I will fast travel to a place that is near where I need to go. But, I don't always pick the closest location to where I need to go. If I see an area on the map that does not have discovered locations on it, I will set my path to take through there as I walk. This is when I have a place to be for the game.

When I am just hanging out in the world, I run everywhere.

I use the carriage if I want to move between the cities, otherwise I walk.

One of these days I will try a horse

Storm

I used it on my first character and finished the Main Quest in 32 hours. Since then, I have only used the carriage occasionally on my Thief, Assassin, and Paladin characters. I missed a lot of stuff on my first playthrough and I am very glad that I made the switch. I have seen a lot of neat Radiant AI things and found some awesome little places.

Anyone else seen "[Somename] the Lucky" yet? Definitely made me laugh.

Nope no fast travel for my current character

Well, in Daniels' defense, let us remember that carriage travel is fast travel, too. It is merely fast travel that is activated from within the game, not from the map. Any one of us - and I include myself in this - who uses a carriage, uses fast travel.

The term fast travel as we know it today is related to the mechanism introduced in Oblivion. Sure it existed in Morrowind and prior ES games in other more controlled forms but not to the level of ease and controversy the Oblivion system introduced. And is the one this poll refers to and what most people refer to when they say Fast Travel. While yes using a carriage to a major city is fast travel but at that point we are using the same vocabulary but different dictionary.

I would say that the carriages were put in precisely so that people wanting a more immersive experience could avoid fast travel from the map entirely even with the huge size of the landmass. So, I don't consider them the same thing at all..as the poster above said, something which is activated through the gameworld is obviously meant to provide a different play experience that just accessing a map or menu. God knows the game makes you spend enough time an menus and loading screens as is, personally I find it really detracts so I use only the carriages, and then sparingly. of course that means i'm like 70 hours in and level 24 lol. But hey, that's ok.

I haven't fast traveled yet.

It does sometimes get tempting, especially when I'm going back and forth between the same two places.

In that case I've done it once in 70+ hours of gaming.

All the time! It's great - it lets me spend so much more time exploring, picking plants, mining, and enjoying the scenery/countryside. Instead of constantly walking back and forth on the same paths to & from Whiterun.




Judging by Oblivion and Fallout 3, I'm going to end up spending LOTS of time on this game. I don't really need to artificially extend that playtime even further. :tongue:




Wow, that sounds unpleasant! I'm glad that I've never run into problems with this "immersion" thing that people keep talking about! oo:

Almost never fast travel, which is nice seeing as its so much more interesting to do that in Skyrim's world compaired to Oblivion's.

I will use carriages however to travel between major cities.

The only time I've ever fast traveled via the map is when I just completed a random radient story quest that took me to this cave that was very far from anything for a terrible reward (not to mention the quest itself was increadibly out of place for it to happen so far away), and my next faction quest took me to the exact same area, just 20 feet over to the next cave

I then went "are you [censored] kidding me?" and just fast traveled there.

Raident Quests are horribly basic in their programming. They really needed to of taken into account the distance, and the level/reward. Instead all they do are just basic one-goal quests where they give you a random dungeon to fight it out in. Absolutely zero thought put into them beyond that. That's why I don't really do them anymore..

Like I posted I didn't know I could and even now that I know I have no plans to do so. It's just too much fun to ride around and find things on my own.

When I first started the game and found out how far quests are (especially far ones) I did but soon figured out that fast travelling even once was one of the main reasons for instant CTD so now I have to walk everywhere

Sure do. It is fun exploring and all, but sometimes I do not feel like it.

I found in Oblivion that fast-traveling really ruined my experience. I adopted a "fast-travel system" where I could ONLY fast-travel between major cities. Period.

I've been doing the same in Skyrim and loving it. I do wish there were carriages at each city so I wouldn't have to use fast-travel at all! CK, here I come!