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

[Renee]

Oh yea, forgot about Arena and Daggerfall. In Arena we'll need to FT to finish quests, since the procedurally-generated world never actually goes anywhere if we walk. And in Daggerfall it is possible to walk to places on the map, but it takes a LONNNNNG time of course.

That being said, I have had characters in Arena walk around in the countryside. It's interesting because the game will actually generate random little villages. Churches. NPCs. Ponds & lakes. Even dungeons! In Daggerfall we can walk to places like I said (I did it one time) problem is a lot of quests are timed in that game.

Also forgot about Online. It was funny in that game because when I was playing it, my characters were almost the only ones who'd walk! ... Again and again other players would zoom by us (sometimes through us!) .... which means they'd be on their mounts, with whatever familiar they had following. clip-clopclipclopclipclop... plk plk plk plkplk.... I remember there was one time another player began circleing my gal Ana Khannda, like 3 or 4x, probably because this player thought Ana was an NPC! (NPCs mostly walk in ESO, from what I'd noticed.)

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 25 2023, 06:40 PM