The Oblivion Fast Travel System: Does Anybody NOT Use It?

[wrecker77]

You are never the only one.

In oblivion I tended to use fast travel only if I was in a rush or needed to go to some place on the other side of the map.

Side note, Fallout 3 also had a fast travel system that I used at every convenience. The world was extremely difficult to traverse and I would waste all my supplies by the time I got to my destination I wouldn't be able to do whatever I had planned on doing.

As for Skyrim, I'm either going to use it always, or not at all. The game looks very pretty and I can only imagine the spectacle of distant mountains and such. But If I learned anything from open world games, Fuck Mountains. Pain in the ass to navigate around or through and for not much gain.

 

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honestly, why would I spend about twenty minutes walking somewhere if a 20 second loading screen gets me to the same place?

After I hyper enchanted my gear so that it made me run faster than Ma'iq and shadowmere put together I used fast travel less. But mainly because I could literally run from Anvil to the imperial city in about a minutes with it on. God help you if I had taken skooma.

I wasn't aware you could have that kind of affect with magic - probably because I was too busy enchanting perfect invisibility or 100% damage reflection sets to experiment with attributes. Which skills or attributes were you enhancing, out of interest? By how much? I'd enjoy travelling in Oblivion far more if movement wasn't such a chore.

I'm pretty sure it was a combination of the 'reduce burden' spell and simple 'increase speed' enchanting. I would get base forms of those spells and then go to the mages guild and make it the most powerful version possible, then enchant clothing/armor/jewelry and such.

100% chameleon was my favorite.

The only attribute enhancing spells I ever saw only governed skills and stats, I can't remember ever seeing something like- oh. Right. Agility. I see. Interesting. It didn't even occur to me that it could have such a pronounced effect. I'll have to go experiment some.

yeah, do things that increase the speed attribute as well.

it been a while but that is the strategy i used i believe.