Locations of Raids and Fast Travel

Apologies if this has been discussed before (in which case I'd appreciate a link), but a question popped into my mind about raids and fast travel. I understand that raids will appear on the map based on the development and events on each server, and that the game will not have any fast travel with the exception of scientific metropolises.

Is there a possibility that, say, a major raid ends up spawning in the northeast corner of the map (because, for example, the raid is connected to the first Tier 5 military node that develops, and that happens to be in the extreme NE corner)? If that happens, will people based on nodes on the southwest corner of the map simply face a long and arduous journey each time they want to do that raid dungeon? Or will the mechanics for server prevent raids from spawning in inconvenient locations or will some limited form of fast travel be offered to reach such a raid dungeon?

Also, seems like major raiding guilds will have a strong incentive to locate near the middle of the map to try to minimize distances to raids, at least assuming there's no raid-specific fast travel.

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Noaani

Nagash wrote: »

Damokles wrote: »

Azryil wrote: »

OOOO are we getting another Dygz vs Noaani fight thread? I'll get popcorn.

Am I the only one who imagines most escalating threads as a bar fight? Two people duking it out and suddenly a third comes from nowhere and smashes a stool on another ones head, and suddenly everythign catches fire, with people bashin on each other in blind rage, while some onlookers stand outside and watch it all go down? XD

I think of it more like pantomime at this point

You guys must be so disappointed when threads come along where Dygz and I agree...

Either way, I'm always happy to provide a reason to eat popcorn.

unknownsystemerror

@Xenantaya

Wandering Mist

It's hard to grasp how the lack of fast travel will affect the raids as we don't can't really comprehend how large the world will be or how long it will take to travel from one key location to another. It's definitely something to look into once we begin testing the mmorpg.

Makinoji

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Ventharien

Dygz wrote: »

noaani wrote: »

None of the quotes you have posted (nor any you could find) have anything at all to say that raid content won't be able to be repeated. There will be subtle differences in the raid content session to session, but those changes will be so subtle that not even the role make up of the raid would need to change to take them on (as per your own quote).

The quotes literally say that raid content won't be able to be repeated:
"It will be something that can not be repeatable in the exact same way from raid to raid..."
It's not just about randomness, it's about content dynamically changing as the world changes. Mobs and mob bosses will come and go as nodes rise and fall and as we defeat and deplete mobs in specific locations.

The context of that quote is talking about the tactics used to fight that boss, and the abilities that boss might have. not the ability to fight at all.

Ventharien

KinthallisThornblade wrote: »

Fast travel is interesting if you can find a means to teleport back the way you came.

Wait what? Are you asking if there is fast travelling?

Nagash

Ventharien wrote: »

KinthallisThornblade wrote: »

Fast travel is interesting if you can find a means to teleport back the way you came.

Wait what? Are you asking if there is fast travelling?

dont mind KinthallisThornblade they are a lost cause

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