Poll: Skyrim: how often will you be using fast travel?

[King of Wei]

I'll use the rule I went by in other Bethesda games: Don't use it unless the game screws you over. Like when I walk from one town to another and the game decides to crash when I reach my destination, I use fast travel to make up the time. Or when I go to the edge of the damn map to be sent on a quest to the opposite edge of the map. Otherwise I don't use it.

 

[CrazyMedic]

I only will use it between major cities or if they like put a cool player house in the alps but it is a 20 minute walk from town other then those two I will try to cut back but I might now be able to help myself fast traveling back to town from a quest.

 

[Steeltrap]

Ill probably use it alot.

 

[omega 616]

If I am on one side of the world and the quest is on the other side, your high if you think I am walking that. I will fast travel but if it's the next town over, I will walk.

I just don't want to spend more time walking than anything else, so I think it's an acceptable way to do it.

 

[Varitel]

I will probably start off not using it very much, but eventually I will be using it frequently.

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

most of the time in oblivion i liked to have a walk but if i was just in the mood to get it over with then a bit of fast travel is good to have it will be the same with skyrim

 

[dyre]

I'll slowly make my way to plot points, enjoying the scenery and ridding the land of highwaymen, but if I get a "visit each city and ask the leader to spare two soldiers to help you fight the demons," I sure as hell will use fast travel, not to mention console codes if I need them.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Pretty much how I'm doing it in Oblivion.

I only fast travel to a place unless I've been there. So I preety much walk to all the towns.

 

[sage42]

For missions or if there's something I want from a specific town I'll use fast travel., other wise I learned from Oblivion to explore the world.

 

[k-ossuburb]

I really hope that there will be a siltrunner esque mod

"Why walk when you can ride?"

Personally, I'd just love to be able to hear that again.

 

[Elfgore]

I will find locations at the begaining but near the middle of the game I will switch to fast travel because I have already found quite a bit of locations.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

Often. I like exploring, but when I want to get someplace, I'll use it to get there quicker.

 

[HazelrahFiver]

I'm sure that I will use it frequently. I won't want to at first, but as soon as I've been somewhere once, and then have to return at a later date, I will say, 'f*** it' and quickly use the fast travel. It's a shame and I hope I am wrong. It would be awesome to be so motivated by exploration that I don't want to skip wandering it.

 

[HazelrahFiver]

I'm sure that I will use it frequently. I won't want to at first, but as soon as I've been somewhere once, and then have to return at a later date, I will say, 'f*** it' and quickly use the fast travel. It's a shame and I hope I am wrong. It would be awesome to be so motivated by exploration that I don't want to skip wandering it.

 

[Therumancer]

The point of having a huge open world to explore is to explore it and look for treasure and stuff in all those little dungeons which define the series (and will hopefully still be present in the usual numbers). As a result I will tend towards travelling overland to begin with while I explore, but as I clear out areas of the map and so on I plan to fast travel through those areas as there will be less point in walking through places I've already explored.

If you fast travel constantly, right from the beginning, your going to miss half the game, but at the same time when you get to the point where your going to be doing the "Ultima Workout" you know find a clue/quest, travel to the other side of the world, etc... that's where fast travel becomes useful.

 

[Arluza]

I'll use it sometimes and often. I don't like going on a 10 minute trek to get from one city to another. I'd rather be able to get there faster and explore other places nearer the cities and expand out from a city at my own pace.

 

[Browncoat86]

It will depend on how fast I can travel on foot/by horse, and what my time constraints are like. For example, if I'm playing, and I have to leave to go to work in a half hour, and I know that reaching my destination without fast travel could take up to 10 minutes, I'd go for the fast travel option.

 

[electric_warrior]

I'll use it when I can't be bothered, which won't be often.

Unless I keep being killed by bandits or creatures while traveling about

 

[ultrachicken]

It really depends on the distance I need to travel. If I can see my destination from where I'm standing, then I'm most definitely walking. If it's far beyond my field of view, then whether or not I fast travel depends on the scenery and my mood. If it's on the other side of the fucking map, screw walking.

I think that these rules of mine will change a bit due to the random encounters with dragons.

I wish that Skyrim would adopt a system similar to Morrowind's, but where when you select a destination to travel to from the various fast travel stations, instead of a list it would present a map with the available destinations with your quest marker displayed so you can see which is closest. I hated how using the silt striders was such a guessing game.

 

[Rossmallo]

I'll walk initially, but if I get into a really story intense quest, I know i'll be like

"OH GOD OH GOD MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS FAST TRAVELLLL"