I understand the "want" for these changes, but they really aren't necessary. We already have aethernet shards all over. Usually, the distance from wherever you are, to wherever you are going is accomplished within 20 seconds. Sometimes it does take longer... and so what if it does?

I know others don't like saying it... but swap to a job with peloton or movement speed increases if it is that big of a hassle.

I don't agree with collision detection. Everybody should already have a mapped hotkey for "target nearest NPC." The "crowding of NPCs" is only a problem for players that don't map something to handle that function.