Why is chocobo porting so limited?

[Adrian74]

To be honest, whitebrim is one of my worse locations to go, and I had to go there A LOT for all my animus relics....It's getting annoying. Lately what I do is teleport to camp dragonhead, use the chocobo porter and meanwhile do something, check the forum, take a cola, whatever.

[DoctorPepper]

The obvious answer to why it's so limited is teleporting. There is no good reason to use chocobo porters other than RPing and going afk for a couple of minutes because teleporting is pretty much always faster. I understand that some people might just like the scenery but how much time will the average person waste on that? I think the devs realize that teleporting fills the gap that porters don't cover.

[Squintina]

The obvious answer to why it's so limited is teleporting. There is no good reason to use chocobo porters other than RPing and going afk for a couple of minutes because teleporting is pretty much always faster. I understand that some people might just like the scenery but how much time will the average person waste on that? I think the devs realize that teleporting fills the gap that porters don't cover.

I use porting if I'm in a city and going somewhere, while I get up and grab a snack. It is cheaper and I have to get up anyway .

Or if I'm in a town, and there's a porter, and I know I have to go somewhere close by (same map or one near it), I'll see if the porter has that location because once again, it's super cheap, and often under a minute so I can read and email or a forum post real quick. If they had more connections, I'd use it even more often.

Sometimes it can actually be convenient as a variety of port locations don't have teleports (they have one near, but not at, the camp I'm going to). So it saves me some choco-riding time.