Zone transitions

[Enur]

One of my favourite places is the mining village north of black brush station. Its little. Has no purpose. But it makes the mines beside it feel alive.

But we cant enter the mines, we cant see all the miners work. We can see the hole where the road from C thanalan to N thanalan begins. We cant travel it though. We are ported right through it with a magic telep.... who am i kidding. Theres a loading screen. And we travel for i dont know how long until we reach the hazy blue ceruleum fogs. I wish there was a labyrinth inside, sidequests a la rid the mines of boogeymen. But alas, theres just the floaty stars of teleporting...


Edit:
But even then, its crammed right inbetween mutamix's camp and the cutters cry. Theres no room for the desert thanalan was advertised to be. The largest expanse ingame so far is Sagolii. And thats a very small area for a supposedly sahara like desert. Western coerthas is getting there. its large and expansive, but ultimately empty. Like a big sandbox with tall railings. theres no mountains to climb here.

Forelands had potential. It has the biggest mountain on aldenard. but we cant climb it proper. we cant even land on the uneven slopes. The areas should imo have the expansiveness of HW areas, with much less obvious zone borders and the detail in the landmarks of ARR areas. Designing a big empty desert shouldnt take that much longer than filling a tiny village of smallfolk, buildings etc. We are told the areas are big and take a long time to traverse. But in reality they are small and almost claustrophobic. I fear that in SB they have gone down the same route as the new mab shows othard the size of Aldenard, yet despite this we arent getting much larger zones. Nor more for that matter. it took two expacs to fill out aldenard and they want ot fill an almost bigger continent in one?