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Intrepid - Time spent travelling?

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  • blatblat Member
    Arya_Yeshe wrote: »
    It will be pretty crazy when you decide to travel far and then you won't see for friends for maybe weeks or even months
    CROW3 wrote: »
    Restricting fast travel has been an intended constraint since very early in Ashes ideation.

    You’re going to know every inch of your home node just by the volume of travel between adventures, gathering, and node events. This is a good thing in the long run as the node develops and other nodes start encroaching on your home.

    I love this and really hope it is the case. I want far travel to feel far, for the world to feel big not just be big.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 27
    My main issue with restricted travel is not being able to make it to impromptu social events - especially with devs.

    Obviously, socializing is more important to me than zergs.
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    Dygz wrote: »
    My main issue with restricted travel is not being able to impromptu social events - especially with devs.

    Obviously, socializing is more important to me than zergs.

    Well it looks like travelling through a node by mount will take about 3.5min. So if your friends are 3 nodes away that's a 10.5min run by mount. It's a lot of running, but probably not that bad. It's a bathroom break, small snack and getting the coffee made with a fresh cup. Achievable in a 2 hour session.

    A 3-5min queue time for many games is reasonable, from when you boot up the game to when you get in the action.

    If you only want to socialize online with a group of people then that is what discord is for, and can be done at any time everyone is around. Ashes of Creation is a game first, and games are fun because of the rules/restrictions. If you only want to socialize/roleplay with a 3d character running around in a virtual world there are plenty of Roblox games that are free to play, have open worlds with 0 combat, and you can RP all day without any interference. Pick your theme; wolves, horses, western, medieval, magical...There is no real "game" there, but that isn't required for roleplay.

    My belief is that for the "game" designers, the game play should come first.

    The vast majority of Ashes players aren't going to be setting up impromptu social events with the devs. They are going to be playing "the game".

    It's like sitting down to play a game of cribbage with a friend. The game's rules don't have anything to do about socializing or talking or anything. It is simply how the cards work and the pegs move, that's "the game". The players create the socializing while playing "the game".

    If "the game" results in pvp zergs, as many games have, it can be next to impossible for a small group of players to even play most of the content in the game. It's the game of cribbage, but the other side gets more cards every round. Now "the game" starts to lose its appeal to many players. This has happened enough in other games that they are trying to limit the prevalence in Ashes.

    I'd say this is a much more important aspect to deal with, for the health of "the game", than impromptu social events.
  • akabearakabear Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Actually, I never expected to enjoy the casual journey from point a to point b until I played New World.
    As a casual MMORPG, when able to be side tracked multiple times and/or just pickup unplanned things on the way made the journey all the more enjoyable.

  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    akabear wrote: »
    Actually, I never expected to enjoy the casual journey from point a to point b until I played New World.
    As a casual MMORPG, when able to be side tracked multiple times and/or just pickup unplanned things on the way made the journey all the more enjoyable.

    Do you mean that you enjoyed the journey in New World? I didn't play it at launch (thankfully), but when I did pick it up recently I actually quite liked it. The world felt full of things to pick up/gather, and it felt like doing so was a good thing to do. So yeah, travel didn't feel that bad.

    But also, there was instant travel to different waypoints on the map. I'm sure if that wasn't there the travel would have felt more like a slog at some point.
  • AzheraeAzherae Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    For me, it's no different than BDO, as long as that Node-to-Node autopathing that Steven planned is still happening.

    Travel times are 'long' only for people who have very strict access to game time. For a person with 'a need to do other things', 'Travel Assist' is sufficient in my experience.

    And if we choose to believe that corruption will be a meaningful deterrent to standard unprompted kills, I'd assume 'nonhostile person obviously using Travel Assist' would be one of the safest, so we could just divide the 'expected attack rate' by 2 or 3 for them.
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  • SirChancelotSirChancelot Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I've wondered how many people will want to push scientific nodes to max for the better fast travel options.
  • Tahiti02Tahiti02 Member, Alpha Two
    I totally disagree and don't see any issue with the current design. You're not really supposed to travel from one corner of the map to the other all the time. Each node and the surrounding area will be its own little region where you will spend most of your time. Yes, you will have caravans that travel across the map, but big risk = big reward, and obviously a bigger time commitment.

    We don't need fast travel or reduced traveling time, we have that in WoW and most modern MMORPGs where you just teleport where you need to go and do the stuff and that's it. What's the point of the world in that case?

    In Ashes traveling will be a journey, it will allow players to feel like going from one corner to another has a purpose and is an accomplishment on its own. Fast travel would also kill pvp since big guilds would be allowed to instantly get to any conflict within a short time, thus giving them even more power.

    NO FAST TRAVEL AND NO REDUCTION OF TRAVEL TIMES.
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 25
    Tahiti02 wrote: »
    I totally disagree and don't see any issue with the current design. You're not really supposed to travel from one corner of the map to the other all the time. Each node and the surrounding area will be its own little region where you will spend most of your time. Yes, you will have caravans that travel across the map, but big risk = big reward, and obviously a bigger time commitment.

    We don't need fast travel or reduced traveling time, we have that in WoW and most modern MMORPGs where you just teleport where you need to go and do the stuff and that's it. What's the point of the world in that case?

    In Ashes traveling will be a journey, it will allow players to feel like going from one corner to another has a purpose and is an accomplishment on its own. Fast travel would also kill pvp since big guilds would be allowed to instantly get to any conflict within a short time, thus giving them even more power.

    NO FAST TRAVEL AND NO REDUCTION OF TRAVEL TIMES.

    My argument here is not against the current design of travel times. It's more about how travelling time ends up being a large % of player time.

    If its 250 hours to level 50, and 125 hours of that is just pure travelling, then the game designers should be just as invested in making that content enjoyable and fun and not just the combat aspect, which could be 75 hours of it.

    Mario cart is fun, racing games are fun, roblox jumping obbies are fun, controlling mounts with abilities is fun... There are lots of ways to make travelling/movement fun. That's the point I am trying to make.

    People can complain about WOW all they want, but the dragonflight expansion was very well designed and the travelling was great AND FUN. The flightpaths aren't "teleports" and I mostly used them when I wanted to go to the bathroom or the dragon's abilities were on cooldown. Otherwise the dragon flying was even better than the flight paths!

    Sounds like Ashes may have some fun systems with their mounts too. I am fine with that.

    A HUGE part of this game is travelling. That is fundamental to the game design. It should be fun, or we are spending most of our time not having fun.

    All of these other systems they are showing are things that we aren't even expected to be spending the majority of our time doing.
  • OtrOtr Member, Alpha Two
    I've wondered how many people will want to push scientific nodes to max for the better fast travel options.

    I wonder if their democratic vote style will prove superior compared to the other ones.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Well it looks like travelling through a node by mount will take about 3.5min. So if your friends are 3 nodes away that's a 10.5min run by mount. It's a lot of running, but probably not that bad. It's a bathroom break, small snack and getting the coffee made with a fresh cup. Achievable in a 2 hour session.

    A 3-5min queue time for many games is reasonable, from when you boot up the game to when you get in the action.
    My Bartle Score is:
    Explorer 87%; Socializer 73%; Achiever 47%; Killer 0%
    I typically play 5-8 hours per day, so I could be much farther across the map than 3 Nodes away.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    If you only want to socialize online with a group of people then that is what discord is for, and can be done at any time everyone is around. Ashes of Creation is a game first, and games are fun because of the rules/restrictions. If you only want to socialize/roleplay with a 3d character running around in a virtual world there are plenty of Roblox games that are free to play, have open worlds with 0 combat, and you can RP all day without any interference. Pick your theme; wolves, horses, western, medieval, magical...There is no real "game" there, but that isn't required for roleplay.
    My belief is that for the "game" designers, the game play should come first.
    Socializing is more important to me than combat. Yes. As you can see by my Bartle Score.
    I would way that Ashes is primarily a competitive PvP game with a heavy focus on Risk v Reward.
    Which is why Steven is paranoid about zergs, while zergs are a much lesser concern for me.
    Ashes is designed to cater to Steven's playstyle not mine.
    Which is why I merely shared an opinion rather than criticize the Ashes design.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    The vast majority of Ashes players aren't going to be setting up impromptu social events with the devs. They are going to be playing "the game".
    Typically, players don't set up social events with devs. True.
    Typically devs initiate social events with players. Usually after Livestreams.
    Also, it's fairly common for players to initiate social events with players after podcasts. So that really depends on how frequent such podcasts are - which remains to be seen.
    Again, I don't really expect that to have an impact on the design of Fast Travel in Ashes because Steven wants to do everthing possible to reduce the impact of Zergs. Especially on PvP combat.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    It's like sitting down to play a game of cribbage with a friend. The game's rules don't have anything to do about socializing or talking or anything. It is simply how the cards work and the pegs move, that's "the game". The players create the socializing while playing "the game".
    It doesn't really have anything to do with that.
    Poor analogy. But moot in any case.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    If "the game" results in pvp zergs, as many games have, it can be next to impossible for a small group of players to even play most of the content in the game.
    This has happened enough in other games that they are trying to limit the prevalence in Ashes.
    Yep.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    I'd say this is a much more important aspect to deal with, for the health of "the game", than impromptu social events.
    Yep. That was a long and windy and oddly oppositional way for you to basically say, "Oh. We agree."
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Xeeg wrote: »
    My argument here is not against the current design of travel times. It's more about how travelling time ends up being a large % of player time.
    Maybe...
    Depends on how each individual allocates time for activities during their play sessions.
    For instance, how much time does it take to travel to a Dungeon or Raid v how much time the individual stays at the same Dungeon or Raid during their play session.

    And how much of a concern it is to an individual will depend on playstyle.
    It may be less of a concern for a playstyle that is: Explorer 87%; Socializer 73%; Achiever 47%; Killer 0%
    It may be a great concern for a playstyle that is: Killer 87%; Achiever 73%; Scoializer 47%; Explorer 0%
    Especially if the travel time is 30% or more of the game session and the playstyle is Explorer 0%
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    It's like sitting down to play a game of cribbage with a friend. The game's rules don't have anything to do about socializing or talking or anything. It is simply how the cards work and the pegs move, that's "the game". The players create the socializing while playing "the game".
    It doesn't really have anything to do with that.
    Poor analogy. But moot in any case.

    Well the analogy is that the game itself doesn't need to create rules that hinder the game play in order to have socializing.

    If someone wanted to add the rule "Every 5 peg movements, players must take a 2 minute break to socialize." to cribbage in order to encourage "socializing", it would add nothing to "the game".
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    I'd say this is a much more important aspect to deal with, for the health of "the game", than impromptu social events.
    Yep. That was a long and windy and oddly oppositional way for you to basically say, "Oh. We agree."

    Apologies. I took your original comment as an attack at the game design and was being oppositional by defending the anti zerg vs impromptu social event argument. I'm not sure we agree, seeing as I do not value the social aspect of fast travel versus the game play that results from Ashes' design.
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    My argument here is not against the current design of travel times. It's more about how travelling time ends up being a large % of player time.
    Maybe...
    Depends on how each individual allocates time for activities during their play sessions.
    For instance, how much time does it take to travel to a Dungeon or Raid v how much time the individual stays at the same Dungeon or Raid during their play session.

    And how much of a concern it is to an individual will depend on playstyle.
    It may be less of a concern for a playstyle that is: Explorer 87%; Socializer 73%; Achiever 47%; Killer 0%
    It may be a great concern for a playstyle that is: Killer 87%; Achiever 73%; Scoializer 47%; Explorer 0%
    Especially if the travel time is 30% or more of the game session and the playstyle is Explorer 0%

    Sure, I was using the 250 hours to level 50 as a baseline. I doubt Intrepid is allocating 100 hours of that to pure socializing. If you want to socialize 70% of the time, it may take you 450 hours to get to level 50. But the travel time will remain.

    It won't be possible to get to level 50 without travelling, but you can socialize while travelling or doing anything in the game. Or you can socialize while standing in town doing nothing to advance in the game. Socializing is independent of the game. People can socialize standing at a bus stop, or the grocery store check out, or in the forums for a game that is in development.

    And the travel time is not just "exploring". Much of the travel time will be travelling places you have already "explored". There are likely way more people who enjoy "exploring" versus travelling the same route over and over and over for years. By the time Ashes launches, most of the Alpha 2 players will have explored a lot, and what is left is the game play.

    My main argument in this thread is that regardless of your Bartle score, if you wish to get to level 50 you will be required to travel a certain amount. Due to the lack of fast travel, much of that travel time will be repetitive A to B style and not "exploration". Therefore, the game designers should make the travel enjoyable somehow.

    I am imagining mounts with fun cooldown abilities, but I am not proposing any specific solutions. Just pointing out that this is an important area for the devs to focus on, just like biome design, questing, combat and crafting are important in the context of the journey to level 50 and beyond.

    I also don't think the solution to this is just "more obstacles" when your game objective is to get from A to B. When your objective is to "explore" then all of the cool game systems already shown are great. But after you explore, your bags are full, and you want to get from A to B, cool gatherables and mob packs aren't going to make the journey more fun.

    This is why I am saying that the act of travelling itself should be a fun experience, regardless of the other systems. Exploring new areas, stopping to gather things or look at the scenery is irrelevant. Many games have just a basic mount that moves faster than running, but you can just click auto run and mildly mouse steer your character. This gets old after a while, and especially when doing it for long periods of time.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Well the analogy is that the game itself doesn't need to create rules that hinder the game play in order to have socializing.
    Explaining the poor analogy in greater detail does not make it any better.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    If someone wanted to add the rule "Every 5 peg movements, players must take a 2 minute break to socialize." to cribbage in order to encourage "socializing", it would add nothing to "the game".
    That is a moot point.
    Who said anything about adding a rule - other than you?


    Xeeg wrote: »
    Apologies. I took your original comment as an attack at the game design and was being oppositional by defending the anti zerg vs impromptu social event argument. I'm not sure we agree, seeing as I do not value the social aspect of fast travel versus the game play that results from Ashes' design.
    The game design is very good for the target audience.
    So. We agree.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Sure, I was using the 250 hours to level 50 as a baseline. I doubt Intrepid is allocating 100 hours of that to pure socializing. If you want to socialize 70% of the time, it may take you 450 hours to get to level 50. But the travel time will remain.
    Your baseline calculation is flawed.
    And it's worthless to use as some standard measure.

    Explorer 87%; Socializer 73%; Achiever 47%; Killer 0%
    Killer 87%; Explorer 73%; Socializer 47%; Achiever 0%
    Killer 87%; Achiever 73%; Socializer 47%; Explorer 0%

    If the individual player's playstyle is Explorer first and Killer last, 70% travel time probably would not be a concern.
    If the individual player's playstyle is Killer first, and Explorer second, 70% travel time probably would not be a concern.
    If the individual player's playerstyle is Killer first and Explorer last, 70% travel time would very likely be a concern.

    And, that's just Bartle Score - which doesn't really factor in Gathering.
    Players who focus on Gathering mostly likely also would not be concerned with 70% travel time.

    Ashes will have some players frustrated by the travel time and many players not frustrated by the travel time.
    We currently do not have enough info about Mounts and Caravans and Science Node Fast Travel to evaluate travel time in any meaningful way.
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    If someone wanted to add the rule "Every 5 peg movements, players must take a 2 minute break to socialize." to cribbage in order to encourage "socializing", it would add nothing to "the game".
    That is a moot point.
    Who said anything about adding a rule - other than you?

    Actually, you did when you posted on the thread.
    Dygz wrote: »
    My main issue with restricted travel is not being able to impromptu social events - especially with devs.

    Obviously, socializing is more important to me than zergs.

    Implicit in your comment, due to the topic of the thread, is that you would prefer a rule that fast travel was possible and give zergs a boost because it lets you socialize with devs.

    Then I attempted to explain that impacting game play by making rules to promote socialization isn't required, because you can socialize regardless. My analogy was fine for that explanation.
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Sure, I was using the 250 hours to level 50 as a baseline. I doubt Intrepid is allocating 100 hours of that to pure socializing. If you want to socialize 70% of the time, it may take you 450 hours to get to level 50. But the travel time will remain.
    Your baseline calculation is flawed.
    And it's worthless to use as some standard measure.

    It's coming from Intrepid, 4-6 hours for 45 days, 250 is a nice round number. Give me a break here. My original post was about how much Intrepid expects of that time to be travel time. That is the whole point of the thread.
    Dygz wrote: »
    And, that's just Bartle Score - which doesn't really factor in Gathering.
    Players who focus on Gathering mostly likely also would not be concerned with 70% travel time.

    I don't know what the Bartle Score is, but if it doesn't differentiate "exploration" from repetitive back and forth from town to depot/turn in quests, or travel time that has nothing to do with the goal of exploration, then it is irrelevant for the topic of the thread.
    Dygz wrote: »
    We currently do not have enough info about Mounts and Caravans and Science Node Fast Travel to evaluate travel time in any meaningful way.

    Hence the basis of my thread. Cheers.

  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    dyz, as an explorer who also plays an mmorpg for the hero journey, what do you think about going back and forth to the same spots to do whatever you want to do in the game. or after you've explored the whole map, you need to go back to the same places that you visited over and over again (this would constitutes as the whole map since you already explored it).
  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Sure, I was using the 250 hours to level 50 as a baseline. I doubt Intrepid is allocating 100 hours of that to pure socializing. If you want to socialize 70% of the time, it may take you 450 hours to get to level 50. But the travel time will remain.


    Ashes will have some players frustrated by the travel time and many players not frustrated by the travel time.

    since ashes is mostly a PVP game, don't you think most people who will play it will be mostly killers or socializers? players will most likely be explorers third or last...so its entirely possible that many players will be frustrated by the travel time (or as xeeg's said, not the travel time itself but how you travel) and only some players will not be frustrated by it?

    seems to me that most people who will play ashes wont be the explorer type, they will be the killer type. so if the logic behind removing players frustrations is based on majority of players, something about boring traveling should be done in ashes, according to your logic.
  • OtrOtr Member, Alpha Two
    Dygz wrote: »
    Ashes will have some players frustrated by the travel time and many players not frustrated by the travel time.
    I am pro travel, with convoluted paths which change depending on season, where players get lost and die because they took a wrong turn.
  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    damn xD
  • AszkalonAszkalon Member, Alpha Two
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Well it looks like travelling through a node by mount will take about 3.5min. So if your friends are 3 nodes away that's a 10.5min run by mount. It's a lot of running, but probably not that bad. It's a bathroom break, small snack and getting the coffee made with a fresh cup. Achievable in a 2 hour session.

    And i don't want it to shrink. ;)

    I want that we have to use Time to travel from A.) to B.) This way fast-travel Methods are much better and feel more significant. Also, i know the World of Verra will be huge - but this would be kinda negated if the Developers would for Example create Mounts or other things which reduce the Travel-Time down to one tenth or so from what it "should" actually take to travel from Point A.) to Point B.)


    It will be impossible to make "Everyone" like the Game anyway. The Developers should not cave in and let the Players have several Heart-Stones like in WoW or other Teleporation Methods.

    The House/Home/Family-whatever Scroll/Spell is quite enough. Travelling should be seen as something huge ingame. Not as a Joke. ;)
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  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Aszkalon wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Well it looks like travelling through a node by mount will take about 3.5min. So if your friends are 3 nodes away that's a 10.5min run by mount. It's a lot of running, but probably not that bad. It's a bathroom break, small snack and getting the coffee made with a fresh cup. Achievable in a 2 hour session.

    And i don't want it to shrink. ;)

    I want that we have to use Time to travel from A.) to B.) This way fast-travel Methods are much better and feel more significant. Also, i know the World of Verra will be huge - but this would be kinda negated if the Developers would for Example create Mounts or other things which reduce the Travel-Time down to one tenth or so from what it "should" actually take to travel from Point A.) to Point B.)


    It will be impossible to make "Everyone" like the Game anyway. The Developers should not cave in and let the Players have several Heart-Stones like in WoW or other Teleporation Methods.

    The House/Home/Family-whatever Scroll/Spell is quite enough. Travelling should be seen as something huge ingame. Not as a Joke. ;)

    I just checked the mounts page and they are probably already doing what I am talking about, the mounts look cool. They probably have fun abilities. So maybe this thread doesn't matter.

    The whole inspiration for the thread came from playing Mortal Online 2 where running was brutal and boring AF. It had a similar "no fast travel" design.

    I get the game design behind the time requirements, I just want to enjoy myself while playing the game.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Actually, you did when you posted on the thread.
    Factually, I didn't.
    You won't see anywhere in the quote where I said the design should be changed.


    Xeeg wrote: »
    Implicit in your comment, due to the topic of the thread, is that you would prefer a rule that fast travel was possible and give zergs a boost because it lets you socialize with devs.
    It's not implicit in my comment.
    It's just your flawed inference.
    Fast Travel is already possible via the Science Metro Super Power.
    And I said nothing about actually adding anything else to give myself or zergs a boost


    Xeeg wrote: »
    Then I attempted to explain that impacting game play by making rules to promote socialization isn't required, because you can socialize regardless. My analogy was fine for that explanation.
    You attempted to mansplain a point I had already conceded.
    I prefer Fast Travel so that I don't miss impromptu social events. But I also don't care about zergs.
    Ashes is PvP game that is concerned about zergs - which is why it has restrictions on Fast Travel.
    No where did I imply that the Fast Travel design should be changed to accomodate my preference.
    I merely shared what my preference is and why I have that preference.

    And then you made up a bunch of other stuff in your own head about what I "implied".
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    Dygz wrote: »
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Implicit in your comment, due to the topic of the thread, is that you would prefer a rule that fast travel was possible and give zergs a boost because it lets you socialize with devs.
    It's not implicit in my comment.
    It's just your flawed inference.
    Fast Travel is already possible via the Science Metro Super Power.
    And I said nothing about actually adding anything else to give myself or zergs a boost.

    You said this:
    Dygz wrote: »
    My main issue with restricted travel is not being able to impromptu social events - especially with devs.

    Obviously, socializing is more important to me than zergs.

    What other inference is one supposed to make from this statement?
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Depraved wrote: »
    since ashes is mostly a PvP game, don't you think most people who will play it will be mostly killers or socializers? players will most likely be explorers third or last...so its entirely possible that many players will be frustrated by the travel time (or as xeeg's said, not the travel time itself but how you travel) and only some players will not be frustrated by it?

    seems to me that most people who will play ashes wont be the explorer type, they will be the killer type. so if the logic behind removing players frustrations is based on majority of players, something about boring traveling should be done in ashes, according to your logic.
    Again... depends on what the other interests of each individual player are - primarily first and last; rather than whether Explorer is third.
    It really matters who has an Explorer rating close to 0%. Which is likely going to be comparitively few.

    Also... again... the Bartle Score does not really factor in Gathering - and Gathering will be a major component of Ashes gameplay...
    Caravans are also a major component of Ashes gameplay...
    The Open Seas is also a major PvP zone...
    So, the majority of Ashes players will be OK with lots of travel. It's not like you can't travel and Gather or you can't travel and PvP or can't travel and PvE.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Dygz wrote: »
    My main issue with restricted travel is not being able to impromptu social events - especially with devs.

    Obviously, socializing is more important to me than zergs.

    What other inference is one supposed to make from this statement?
    Exactly what I explicitly stated:
    "This is my preference - because this is my playstyle. But obviously that is different than a design concerned about zergs."
    No need for you to add anything else to what I explicitly stated.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 26
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Just think about what often constitutes as "punishment" in these types of games, typically at least running back to your body after death. And it is considered "punishment" because running across a map feels tedious and boring.

    Now doesn't this pose a bit of a problem? How much time are we really spending travelling as opposed to combat or town stuff?
    Oh. I missed this in the OP. It's quite hyperbolic.

    The primary punishment of Corpse Runs is the danger of losing your Inventory and Gear.
    Also, typically, the deceased player is either naked and highly vulnerable to attacks or an immaterial ghost, incapable of interacting with the world around them.
    The former is risky if it's possible to accrue xp debt and level loss or stack whatever the death penalties are if you die again while trying to reach your Corpse - the latter is potentially boring because it's not possible to do much that is meaningful until the player character becomes corporeal again.
    General travel being innately boring is not really a factor of Corpse Run punishment.
  • SongcallerSongcaller Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    The lack of fast travel won't stop zergs, what the lack of fast travel will do is stop an appropriate fast response to a zerg.
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