Did you want fast travel?
Posted Sep 24, 2022, 6:40 AM UTC
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Not really but I can accept it as necessary with the 2nd continent in development.
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BUT THEN WHATS THE POINT OF MY BIGBOAT?
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u want to travel for a hour?
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I am not gonna lie I kinda liked the remoteness of port ratt and the far desert. It felt like an actual trip to go out to those places. I know it's roleplay bullshit, but I would like the new continent to be isolated.
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i have my compass tho aint care
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It really breaks the game's identity and a number of systems (horse necessity, ferries, griffon etc), but there is no other way to go to Port Ratt
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Just get a good ship or PA could implement a new air bloon that takes 10-15min from velia to port ratt
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I played Maplestory back in the day. Keep the airships and just lemme teleport.
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Fuck I miss the old maple
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It makes exploring that much more special imo. I've played for almost year and still havnt gone to Port Ratt. But when I do get there, I think it'll leave a more meaningful experience.
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I played 6 years. Never been to port ratt 😂
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It depends. I don't want to teleport from place to place but I'd like some zeppelin for example that passes by the big cities and you can drop off there.
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U mean like a Hot Balloon?
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I mean more like the means of transportation in WoW classic for example multiple people on it and able to move on the fly
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This one for sure
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It is a teleport from the city to a hub where you can then teleport to any other city
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Have nothing against fast travel, but I cannot accept the fact that this is supposedly the 'new content' that they were developing for fucking years.
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I’m normally as hard on the game & PA than anyone but I don’t think you’re looking at it from a logical perspective.
The moment this was announced and they explained it’s purpose (which took a fucking hr) I said to myself “oh, this will be for the port ratt /haso expansion so we all won’t need boats.” And sure as shit they said they’re trying to drop the expac by the end of the year/early 2023.
So technically the magnus is a pre-cursor to haso, which is releasing soon. In short, what they’ve been working on for years is releasing soon. Which is great because the game desperately needs new real, fresh content.
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Not really but I guess if it’s just travel between main cities it’s fine. I don’t have to use it after all but I will feel like I’m wasting time not using it though.
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I think they can implement it just fine with a big cooldown.
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Yes that's my thought exactly, only between the main cities in each continent would be great and said below, with a cooldown.
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There will be a cost so you might wanna think twice before using it
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"Thanks for buying mount skill resets. Our new content will invalidate your purchase. Please buy Abyss travel resets going forward."
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Hate it. It's dumb.
The world is already smaller than it has ever been, with current travel speeds.
Is this trash solely a marketing ploy to appeal to chipmunk brains who don't play the game because they think that taking 30 seconds to ride from calpheon to heidel is an unacceptably long time?
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Pretty sure it's not really meant for adjacent cities more for Val to anywhere or hidel to snow region.
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Heidel to snow region takes like 2 minutes. I've played games with loading screens longer than that.
Shit, my modded install of Rimworld takes a good 10 minutes just to reach the main menu and that's on the quick side for that game.
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That's an extreme under estimate, average afk time is 8 to 12 minutes. Not that it matters the unified storage is all most people care about.
Key word is modded buddy, any game that takes that amount of time to load in it's vanilla state isn't worth the time to play cause it's unoptimized trash.
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That's an extreme under estimate, average afk time is 8 to 12 minutes
???? Just fuckin ride there manually. Complaining about it taking longer when you take the slower option smh
Even if you're some kinda plebeian who only has a t8, it's still like 5 minutes tops.
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Don't forget, this is great justification to put less effort in the between places. One of the reasons why Valencia is really, really easy to keep adding content to--besides its size--is because all of the areas around the obvious desert are really, really pretty.
If you just teleport inside the city, why would you spend any time off the path, ever...? Mountain of eternal region looks so, so much worse as soon as you look at it from any angle other than from the road.
It just feels like a continual slipping of production quality because "nobody notices".
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that's right, it's like mission creep, it always gets more MORE MOOORREEE
law of diminishing returns, more isn't always better
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I think its more planning for the future for haso, grinding carracks is the alternative and even then it takes awhile to cross the ocean.
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Same. With a good dream horse and the addition of autosprint to artisan 1 training, crossing the landscape is not really an issue, active or not. I can get by an additional method of travel to Port Ratt, but this was totally unneeded.
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Perhaps it will be nice to have but do we really need it? I find it already quick to get to all places that I need to travel to.
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What the fuck are you smoking
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Same for me. But the thing is I never use auto sprint or anything. I always manually ride everywhere so I get across the map fairly quickly with doom or Pegasus.
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with haso area comming out i think we need it
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Did I? Yes
Do I currently? Nah some of the games charm is traveling on horseback
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This is part of the essence of the game, if you want fast travel, change game.
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We got maps ctg compass I feel thats enough but if it makes others happy then thats fine with me I do not need to use it
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For teleporting we have the compass and the map, but if they added teleport between cities it would ruin the best part of the game. Press ALT + C and knock everyone off their horse whether they are afk or active while traveling to your destination. C:
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How to destroy a sandbox mmo.
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In what way is fast travel going to negatively affect anyone? I am perma arsha and I run into someone on the road once every 2 weeks, one person dies and we go out separate ways. The content is no longer on the road, it's not 2016.
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So why don't you go play wow or those other mmo that have fast travel
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Because I like BDO right now
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My Carrack seems useless when Fast travel deploy
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I'm curious if fast travel will be a sub like kama/combat book/ VP
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Don't give them ideas!
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I spent billions in mats for a pegasus, why would I not want to ride it?
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Why would it stop you from riding it?
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I bet if had a Ferrari he wouldn't use it once because airplanes exist. He also never walks because running is faster.
See? That's what happens when you confuse stupidity with min/maxing. Not only him, many bdo players have that narrow point of view.
OmG I PaiD MoNeY FoR It NeVeR UpDaTe AnYtHiNg
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Yeah I don't really get the whole debate over it. It's an option to use, not mandatory.
If anything it saves me time, as a working adult, time I'd rather use actually playing the game, not sitting there watching my horse get to the destination.
Plus I highly doubt they'd make it be a warp from anywhere, which is what the map or compass does.
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Where is new class?? Port ratt expansion under development for 3 years now? Noone will come back to the game for floating egg teleport 😑
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I'd been saying before, if they wanted anything past the ocean (so Haso, whenever it comes) to be relevant, they had to make it easier to get there somehow, people aren't gonna make a 20 minute boat ride twice just for a grind spot. I'm guessing this was mainly decided on because of that.
Unless it turns out you can't even use it to get there, in which case idk what they were thinkin
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They had already discussed/pitched the idea of airships (and in fact the one flying around Balenos/Serendia/Calpheon is supposed to be a teaser for this) as 'fast travel'
so I'm kind of unclear why you need a literal teleporting rock when they already had a plan in place
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Lets think about this logically here for a sec.
The biggest thing that takes time between getting from the mainland out to Port Ratt (and Haso eventually) is the ocean. In the ocean, currents and wind direction are the only things slowing you down. Now lets say they do add airships, and treat it similar to boats that it also has wind direction slowing you down (or it doesn't because its an NPC driven thing, but instead it moves at the slow ass pace of the NPC boat that goes to Port Ratt). What did this accomplish, in regards to making it easier to get to Haso and back? Nothing. See the problem?
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See the problem?
Yes, the part where they had already killed the idea of private airships around 2019. They wanted it to be like the ferries that already run, just as larger airships.
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I like the idea of making some of the further flung cities more popular/accessible. Many of the newer players don't have alts to keep outside of the core so there are things that they may miss without the ability to fast travel to easily. However, I am seriously tied to my Peggy and if they make her obsolete, I will be heartbroken. Horse travel is part of the heart of this game.
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Indifferent. More interested in the storage sync.
I think the storage not being in sync adds to the game in combination with no fast travel
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