Thread: 2.0 Teleportation and you!

Originally Posted by Noir

First, I mentioned the rune system from UO. Not the game itself. Which I won't discuss here . FYI I played free shards not th official server, so the skill length varies a lot

Ok I see where you are coming from. Although I would find a similar system extremly easy to exploit in this game...hell it was ultra exploited in Ultima Online itself.

Ultima Online was very freeform and lent itself to players creating there own rules for the most part. MMOs these days will never allow such freedoms because we need to hold the hands of the casual players. On the note of the rune gate system...I would actually kind of like to see this happen.

Just so I could see how fast people exploded on the forums when people were handing out deadly runes.

I think the teleportation system is just fine the way it is. Some days I have only a half hour to play, and I'd never get anything done if it took that long just to get from point A to point B. I see NOTHING wrong with tele at all. Its not like you NEVER roam the map because of it. My ONLY complaint would be that it makes there be no reason to ride an airship, as I do not feel that 2 anima are worth 5k. But the fix there would be to make airships not to danged expensive.

in 11 we had to do quest to get teleportaion spells i think the same can be done here like visit crystal do quest get a whm teleport spell to travel to tand from

I have a full time job. so when I get home I make about 2- 3 hours to play and level. My LS friends that help me out by trying to get me caught up teles me to places that I haven't been cause I understand that I work and I'm barely on. In order for me to try to catch up with them I love the way how the system is now. This Isn't FFXI, I left FFXI after 10 years of playing it. Don't make me suffer cause I have a job and can't spend a hour out of the very few I have to walk everywhere. I rember trying to go to current areas on goobbue and get killed trying to get to camps due to mobs that are aggo. . . now I have to start back over at the city. . . No thank you

Originally Posted by dragorian

in 11 we had to do quest to get teleportaion spells i think the same can be done here like visit crystal do quest get a whm teleport spell to travel to tand from

Surprised it took this long for the "I think mages should teleport" comment

Originally Posted by Mirage

if the game didn't force you to traverse the entire god damned world for every little quest there is.

This is a good point. Many of the quests/leves require me to travel vast distances. The travel is not dangerous most of the time, so the real challenge is fighting boredom as I run across the map. Before chocobos, travel for these leves really sucked when I ran out of Anima lol. I think this is ONE of the reasons everyone likes the current teleport system.

Originally Posted by syntaxlies

Surprised it took this long for the "I think mages should teleport" comment

I know right lol, I hated that about XI.

I think the current system is fine with one exception. you couldn't teleport to crystals in XI if you hadn't been there yet. making you walk there the first time is not unreasonable. you can then bond to the gate and return whenever you want, provided you have the anima.

doing a quest to unlock the ability is also reasonable. but after that, i just say make us walk there one time. part of the fun when i first started was running around collecting all the gates, and getting killed by new and exotic mobs.