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

[Derek_the_Dodo]

In Oblivion I first of all didn't realise that it was an option. Then when I did I abused the fuck out of it and have ever since. My main character is a mage character, and I always had this little ritual that I did whenever I fast travelled. I would jump and cast a healing spell on self in third person and pretend that this was the animation for a teleport spell at which point I would select a destination.

I wouldn't say the game was better or worse before fast travel, I'd just say it changes it. If I fancy heading off into the forest then I will, but if I fancy finishing a quest long forgotten about that's miles away then I'll pick it up from where I left off instantly.

I'm not going to explore the whole map in one play through anyway. I think it makes more sense to explore certain areas on the world depending on who your character is. I had a great game playing as an argonian exploring the waters of the rumare and all the little rivers, not doing a single quest. And because of me not having explored all of these areas before, fast travelling past them usually, it meant I got a load of new content. The characters who chose to focus on various quest lines would be more concerned about stopping the oblivion crisis/ mannimarco/ the blackwood company than popping off into a random fort every five minutes to loot things so it makes sense for them to fast travel though.

 

[ullr123]

I generally have 2 times when I fast travel. If I'm trying to speed something through. Ie. I'm going out in half an hour and want to finish the quest and have travelled along the path before and already explored it. Although usually don't use it for that reason. Other time is if I'm fully loaded and about to go into a ruin, I'll just fast travel back, sell/drop items at my house then fast travel back to the ruin.

Even if a quest is on the other side of the map I'll walk but do other quests along my route.

In Syrim though I have had to add fast travelling to another city from the one I'm in so that I can get to a merchant with some gold.

 

[Hop-along Nussbaum]

Generally, I used the wagons to get to the major cities, and then run to the quest site, complete the quest and fast travel back to turn it in. No point in discovering the same ground twice.

 

[Hop-along Nussbaum]

Deleted by author. I covered the same ground twice. How ironic.

 

[portchd]

Depends. Late game, when I've explored most locations, and a mission requires me to go from one side of the massive map to the other, I just cannot be bothered to walk it all.

you could buy a horse, also, (I don't know werether this bothers you) if you are on your horse, and you fast travel, you will take less time to get to your destination. A horse is a nice way to play the game, you can get place quicker, and still have all the scenery, if thats what you want.

 

[gigastrike]

Only if a death sents me back halfway across the world and there was nothing important that happened along the way.

 

[DasDestroyer]

If the travel distance is more than about 1/8 of the map, I'll fast travel. I'm lazy, simple as that.

 

[Dog Killa]

Absolutely never, it would ruin immersion and the whole experience for me.

 

[Awesomebob]

I've been using the horse drawn carriage mostly. Every now and then, if I need to sell 349/350 weight capacity I'll fast travel home to offload some stuff.

Later playthroughs I will use it 100% of the time, but as long as the game is stilll "new" I want to see all that amazing landscape.

 

[castlewise]

I will use fast travel under the following circumstances.

1. If I have just finished a dungeon. One of the "rewards" is that I get to just bounce back to town and sell my loots.

2. If I am in/near a major city and travelling to another major city. The carriage rides are just fast travel that costs money.

3. If I am "running errands". For example, if I'm working on my smithing and trying to hit every smithy everywhere buying up all of their raw goods, making armor, and selling it back to them.

 

[tzimize]

Pretty simple, really, there are purists out there who hate the addition of fast travel and there are some who think it's a useful tool. I think it's okay, I use it when I'm just too lazy to go from one place to another by foot, but I do try to explore as much as possible since we're given this massive, open world and it's a bit of a shame to just skip through it.

It is tempting, sometimes, to just skip the journey and go somewhere, but Morrowind had some decent ways of getting around and I think I preferred that as it made the experience a little richer because when you couldn't be teleported to a place, use recall or hop on a silt strider you were forced to walk which meant that you might accidentally run into a side quest or find a nice bit of loot you would've otherwise skipped with fast travel. Plus, sometimes it's just nice to take a stroll and look at the scenery.

However, that's just my opinion it's obviously different for different people. So, what's your opinion?

I get your point, but when I've traveled past a place a couple of times...it gets tedious. I like to spend my time actually exploring, not running to and fro known places.

I dont use it every time I can, but every time I want to. And I am glad Bethesda allows ME to make the choice.

 

[lapan]

I'm using it a lot. I dont want to have to wander the large distances of the big map every single time, especially considering the companions who cant follow me as simply as i can wander the world itself, since they cant use horses and wont climb some of the mountainpathes i will take. Not fasttraveling just increases the risk their pathfinding will fuck something up.