Question about RESPITE points

[naomha]

So, going through the game you learn you have to lay down a Respite Point to basically have a safe area to build in and claim. Now, I'm in a DIFFERENT realm and put down another Respite point. However, being as I was on one side of the map and heavy with stuff I decided to return to my home. Well, it took me ALL THE WAY back to my og Respite Point. I also do NOT see a way to return to the new one. Why would you let the player build another Respite point if we can't return to any of them but the oldest one? Am I missing something?

[RiChuF]

Originally posted by Senzoba:

Originally posted by naomha:

So, going through the game you learn you have to lay down a Respite Point to basically have a safe area to build in and claim. Now, I'm in a DIFFERENT realm and put down another Respite point. However, being as I was on one side of the map and heavy with stuff I decided to return to my home. Well, it took me ALL THE WAY back to my og Respite Point. I also do NOT see a way to return to the new one. Why would you let the player build another Respite point if we can't return to any of them but the oldest one? Am I missing something?

estate cairns can only be placed in abeyance realms so if you placed the other one in a realm other than an abeyance its going to send you back to the original one

they would know this if they payed attention to the games tutorials

[Siliconhobbit]

"Fast Travel" is a misnomer, in all seriousness.

As far as I am aware, there is only one Fast Travel and that is from anywhere in the game, in any realm, to the Estate Cairn you placed in an Abeyance Realm. That "Fast Travel" is accessed by the Travel To Respite button on the map. There is no other fast travel system available. Which is, I assume, a design choice.

The Estate Cairn serves 3 purposes:
#1 The one you place in the Abeyance Realm serves as your permanent home and is the only fast travel point that is available, and I assume, will ever be available, in the game.
#2 Creature Suppression. This prevents creatures from spawning nearby. It should be noted, however, that it does not prevent creatures from following you back to your camp/house/outpost/whatever or those that take a pathing route through your territory. Although, I do not know the range the cairn has preventing creature spawn.
#3 Respawn Point. If you die, you'll respawn at the closest Estate Cairn, Portal, or Faerie Ring, whichever is closer.

You can place an Estate Cairn anywhere in the realms and if you build near it, it will be safe from creature spawning. It will NOT allow you to fast travel back to, on the same map, if you are across the map with a full pack and unable to move for example. Clicking the "Travel to Respite" button will bring you back to your Abeyance Realm only.

In addition to additional cairns in other realms being used as respawn points, Faerie Rings will do the same thing, allow you to respawn after death. Although, why you would ever want to make a Faerie Ring is beyond my comprehension as the Faerie Ring requires more mats to make as well as a Synchronous Lotus, where-as the Estate Cairn does not.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Siliconhobbit:

As far as I am aware, there is only one Fast Travel and that is from anywhere in the game, in any realm, to the Estate Cairn you placed in an Abeyance Realm. That "Fast Travel" is accessed by the Travel To Respite button on the map. There is no other fast travel system available.

There's a second one, which is to a late game area called The Watch. You get the button to fast travel there right below the one to go back to your Respite.

Originally posted by Siliconhobbit:

In addition to additional cairns in other realms being used as respawn points, Faerie Rings will do the same thing, allow you to respawn after death. Although, why you would ever want to make a Faerie Ring is beyond my comprehension as the Faerie Ring requires more mats to make as well as a Synchronous Lotus, where-as the Estate Cairn does not.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I choose to build the fairie ring when I want a respawn point temporarily because there are quite a few issues that can be caused if you use the estate cairn for it when you aren't actually setting it up as your new permanent base.

The material cost is a non-issue. I don't build those fairie rings as "permanent structures". I dismantle them when I'm done in that realm; when you dismantle something you get all of the resources used back.

it's just a matter of time until they make it so you cannot build the cairn at all outside of Abeyance realms, as intended. So that's another reason to use fairy rings. Because you're going to have to at some point.

[naomha]

Originally posted by Senzoba:

Originally posted by naomha:

So, going through the game you learn you have to lay down a Respite Point to basically have a safe area to build in and claim. Now, I'm in a DIFFERENT realm and put down another Respite point. However, being as I was on one side of the map and heavy with stuff I decided to return to my home. Well, it took me ALL THE WAY back to my og Respite Point. I also do NOT see a way to return to the new one. Why would you let the player build another Respite point if we can't return to any of them but the oldest one? Am I missing something?

estate cairns can only be placed in abeyance realms so if you placed the other one in a realm other than an abeyance its going to send you back to the original one

We know this now. However, the game doesn't prohibit you from building them anyway nor does the game tell you it's pointless to do so.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by naomha:

Originally posted by Senzoba:

estate cairns can only be placed in abeyance realms so if you placed the other one in a realm other than an abeyance its going to send you back to the original one

We know this now. However, the game doesn't prohibit you from building them anyway nor does the game tell you it's pointless to do so.

Ya, this game does let you shoot yourself in the foot. In fact, I'm pretty sure you can place them in other realms, you just can't set the cairn to be your respite in realms other than abeyance. It will still prevent enemy spawns in a ring around it. Not sure why you would want that. I've never built a single foundation except for creating a stairway up when my climbing stamina used to suck. Otherwise I see no need for it.