Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Rhomagus]

One: you posted the wrong link...

No I didn't. You need to learn to read directions there sport.

I really don't like to be obnoxious so I'm going to post this without altering the text at all.

Click bottom right corner where it says Aetheryte.

And need i bring up the ill effect that aetheryte portals have on the body yet everyone travels with no penalty.

What do you think anima costs are supposed to represent. Marshmallows in your pockets?

I'm not going to dissect the actual literature for you but I can say that it provides a reason as to why you can teleport on a whim.

[Bled]

No I didn't. You need to learn to read directions there sport.

I really don't like to be obnoxious so I'm going to post this without altering the text at all.





What do you think anima costs are supposed to represent. Marshmallows in your pockets?

Anima returns over time hardly an "irreversible affect"... and those are the words right from the link.

'As a precaution, most city-states strongly discourage over-teleporting, as it can lead to irreversible damage...'

They may as well be "Marshmallows in your pockets".

and i see you conveniently glanced over the leve envoking restriction..

[Rhomagus]

and i see you conveniently glanced over the leve envoking restriction..

I don't conveniently glance over anything. It's not a restriction. To use your ridiculously bolded words, grants use Please show me how granting use restricts it. Your justification in your post is unfounded. And yes I'm referring to your original post. I did read it, and I read it again. That's what I do.

Anima returns over time hardly an "irreversible affect"... and those are the words right from the link.

Has your character gone beyond the recommended 100 anima? No, okay, then. You have nothing to show what could happen if your character did. Since your character cannot, and you cannot determine what "overuse" would be lore wise, you have no precedence.

[Bled]

I don't conveniently glance over anything. It's not a restriction.

"Guildleves also grant use of aetheryte portals, ensuring quick travel about the region."

how do you interpret this then? As i am seeing it aetheryte portals are the means to teleport and Guildleves grant use, thus if you do not have a guildleve you should not be able to teleport based on lore.

Yet we can teleport regardless.

in order to grant someone with something one must first not have said thing thus need to be granted the ability to do so. With a presence of power granting use one might think that there is a restriction to said ability.

[Rhomagus]

"Guildleves also grant use of aetheryte portals, ensuring quick travel about the region."

how do you interpret this then? As i am seeing it aetheryte portals are the means to teleport and Guildleves grant use, thus if you do not have a guildleve you should not be able to teleport based on lore.

Yet we can teleport regardless.

in order to grant some one with some thing one must first not have said thing thus need to be granted the ability to do so.

I don't see it as a constraint. I can be granted permission to pass regardless of whether I can actually pass or not. I can be granted permission to continue regardless of whether or not I could actually "continue". Granting something only opens up opportunity, it doesn't restrict it. It's semantics that have nothing to do with the design philosophy of accessibility and whether or not that should be diminished arbitrarily.

Besides, in one of my other replies I stated that game mechanics trumps immersion.

The storyline doesn't matter to me when it comes to explaining game mechanics as my level of immersion is satiated and deep enough to the point that my suspension of disbelief isn't so shallow as to try to explain away instant travel as a threat to immersion.

It is a worse threat to immersion when the storyline advocates something you should be able to do in game. The introduction to XI was notorious with this. Or when the storyline explains an old feature and said feature is pulled out from the game.

That and retcons introduced by multiple writers.

[Bled]

I don't see it as a constraint. I can be granted permission to pass regardless of whether I can actually pass or not. I can be granted permission to continue regardless of whether or not I could actually "continue". Granting something only opens up opportunity, it doesn't restrict it. It's semantics that have nothing to do with the design philosophy of accessibility and whether or not that should be diminished arbitrarily.

You decided to "dissect" my post based on lore, and i feel the lore dose not match up. Please don't turn around and then try and claim its semantics and play it off like your last posts were troll posts.

a video game even given less restrictions in no way compares to actual design philosophy of accessibility, we the customers have no ability to be inventive that only falls to the developers running the game.

[Rhomagus]

You decided to "dissect" my post based on lore, and i feel the lore dose not match up. Please don't turn around and then try and claim its semantics and play it off like your last posts were troll posts.

a video game even given less restrictions in no way compares to actual design philosophy of accessibility, we the customers have no ability to be inventive that only falls to the developers running the game.

No but we can add suggestions and promote particular design philosophies. An open "laissez faire" design philosophy opens up the game to a wider audience rather than a restricted one in the MMO genre. If you're able to attract more demographic areas, you're better suited for sales and retention of customers.

I specifically said they were not troll posts.

I did say I'm not serious. That doesn't mean I'm a troll. What timezone are you in btw, maybe you should get some sleep.

And it really is getting down to semantics. To the point where my interpretation of a word is different than yours. That's an uncrossable valley. There's no point in continuing with that aspect of the conversation considering that's not what the thread is about anyways.

And I only "dissected" your post because you got snarky and said my Star Trek metaphor didn't apply when it totally did. You then continued to post false information by your own incapability to follow directions and tried to make a point that I didn't link you to the right area.

I'm happy to converse about other subject matter.