Walk or Run?, How do yours like to travel? Options

[Renee]

I can't remember how to make a poll; don't see the options. But no matter. There's only like 20 of us here these days at the most. Here's a few questions to pass the time.

1). Do your characters like to mostly walk, or mostly run? Or... do you see this more as a "player" thing?

2). What about Fast-Travel?

3). Do you characters use mounts?

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1). Mostly my gals & guys walk, with the main exception being if they're getting chased, or occasionally I'll roll somebody who just likes to run, especially around "safe" areas such as Vivec where there's a lot of ground to travel, yet zero enemies.

I have (or have had) a few who prefer to actually sneak a lot as they travel. These sorts are usually archers or rogues, who often use terrain features to hide behind as they move from point A to B. Obviously, these characters move slower than the ones who simply travel the roads. But they also usually deal with less enemies along the way.

Otherwise, they're mostly walking. And this is partially because the Player (ME) enjoys the journey sometimes more than the destination. I enjoy the scenery, the random encounters, all the places found along the way which are new, or we've forgotten about.


2). Rarely do most of mine fast-travel. The main exception in Morrowind are the Mages Guild portals. Especially if I've got a character who's trying to locate ingredients or potions or whatever on-the-fly, sometimes its best to teleport from guild to guild. But while playing Oblivion or Skyrim, FT almost never happened. I enjoy the journey too much.

In Fallout 3 my Lone Wanderer guy, I installed a Vertibird mod just for him, but I can't get it to work right. It's really buggy. So instead, he'll call up a Vertibird with a special device and then I just use Fast Travel to roleplay him flying to the destination. 🚁


3). Some of them use horses, others prefer traveling on foot. 🐎 I'd say it's a 50/50 split. The games on consoles use horses more often than modded games. On PC most of my characters use horses as pack mules, almost never actually riding them.

That's all for me, how about you?

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 25 2023, 02:32 PM

[Decrepit]

I can't remember how to make a poll; don't see the options. But no matter. There's only like 20 of us here these days at the most. Here's a few questions to pass the time.

1). Do your characters like to mostly walk, or mostly run? Or... do you see this more as a "player" thing?

2). What about Fast-Travel?

3). Do your characters use mounts?

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1). In RPGs, and similar games, my avatars always walk except when it makes immersive sense for them to run. Of course, during my long-ago MMO days, they ran when their party did, immersive or not. Come to think on it, I believe there was a time when, even in single-player RPGs, my characters ran (more than their mouth or nose) most of the time. It seems to me it might have been during my first Oblivion play-through when I began to slowly shift my play style so that characters walked (as opposed to ran) except when necessary, ate three square meals a day when possible, slept each night barring unavoidable necessity, and so on.

2). Depends on the game. During my long second Oblivion play-through, my character didn't fast-travel a single time. Well, except during that one Fighters Guild quest when the game automatically teleports us, whether we wish it or not. Daggerfall, imo, lacks sufficient interest out in the wilds to make walking/riding between cities, dungeons, etc. a worthwhile activity. Should that change at some point, and there's no reason why it absolutely can't happen, I'll definitely give "conventional" travel a go there too.

3). When that is an option, yes, my avatars travel mounted, again when it makes sense to do so. Tying in to question-one, even mounted they travel at a horse's walking gate unless trotting/galloping makes required.

Addendum:
As to fast-travel, I now remember that during my second Oblivion play-through my avatar did indeed fast-travel. This was due to me helping track down bugs and test patches for a number of mod authors (the Unofficial Patch among them). But those fast-travels were task-specific, self-contained and never saved, so were not part of the play-through proper.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jan 25 2023, 06:20 PM