Does the fast travel ruin the game ?

[Daded]

I don't know what is better. Never fast travel or fast travel when it's realy helpful but i have the tendency to always fast travel when i know a location (when she is white on the map)

In one hand the game would never end if i never fast travel but in the other hand the game is supposed to be enjoyed and we should take our time. When we never fast travel we encounter a lot of aleatory event that we can't encounter if we do not fast travel...

And you are you team fast traveling or team walking by foot or by horse ?

Glad to read your comment ;)

[Ihateeverybody]

I enjoy the spaces in between start point and destination. I will occasionally use Carriages and Rowboats but prefer walking or the "Journey".

[worm_master]

I FT, an cross mountains, on my horse.

[Ilthe]

I now only use carts and boats for fast travel, when I am finally getting my dragon rider license, I'll be using it too. Skyrim is a pretty place and random encounters make it feel even more lively.
Also, planning my roadtrip, stocking up on supplies and setting camps makes it feel like Skyrim is bigger than it is - I used to do it for RP and immersion even before I've found survival mods and then the survival mode dropped. Still do it even when I don't play survival mode/mods.

Sometimes I fast travel if I can't remember the way I got to that place to get the mark, like that dwemer dungeon and home in the mountains to the north of Riften. But I still travel to the closest place I can get to on foot/horseback.

Before that I used to fast travel to nearest mark like that guard tower near Whiterun, and then go to the city itself, because dragons and vampires would kill everybody and my horse if I teleport directly, especially if I teleport to the jarl's place instead of city gates. And since many "nearest marks" that are uninhabited by people I don't want dead are sometimes half a province away, I often just runned around without hopping.
And all that alchemical ingredients that I can grab in the wilderness were keeping distracting me and I often found myself at the opposite end of the map if I decided t ohunt some deer or chase butterflies.

[hawklaser]

Its kind of a mix. I mainly walk across the map, occasionally using the carriages to go between the major cities. As there are some interesting things to discover out there when walking as well as the random encounters. Also, there is the danger of when you fast travel to the town locations, of having a dragon encounter spawn upon arrival, as quite a few of the spots fast travel drops you off at are near the points the game checks for and spawns random encounters.

However, there are times I will fast travel instead. As after you have walked the same path over and over many times, there isn't much that is new on it besides the random encounters that spawn. If have been walking it frequently, like say the roads between Lakeview Manor and Falkreath or Whiterun, the ore veins and alchemy ingredients won't refresh because you keep loading those cells. The occasional fast traveling helps to give those paths a chance to refresh.

Really, you just need to find a balance for fast traveling that works for yourself.

[Steelfleece]

I rarely fast travel to be honest. Actually traveling, if you know a fast path, takes way less in-game time than fast travel; I've been getting from WIndhelm to Whiterun in a little over 1.5 hours of game time, or probably a little more than a couple minutes of real time, to sell junk. It's great when you just got back from Solstheim with a full load of crap to sell and it's already 5pm.

Can also snag some loot along the way and fight a few easy battles on horseback - or just run from them. Not many can catch up aside from dragons, and a little zig zagging throws off casters and archers.

I DO fast travel sometimes, but it's usually a sort-of-cheat of fast traveling to someplace I already am just to summon a mount (if I don't have Arvak yet).

[alexander_dougherty]

it depends, some times I don't want to take five hours crossing skyrim to o a twenty minute quest, sometimes \i do....
Fast Travel only ruins the game if you never explore, if you do explore then not using it ever becomes a chore.

[Docsprock]

I never fast travel. I do use a horse and I will buy followers horses. I also use a form of survival where I eat, drink, and sleep.

I like getting up early, having breakfast, and checking the map to plan my day. How much food do I bring, where will I spend the night.

Using mods, the roads have travelers, merchants, and ne'er-do-wells to have the country seem alive.

Now, when I'm building a modlist for a new game, I will use fast travel for testing.

[NecroMaster]

Playing survival for my first time and in a situation where I’m forced not to use fast travel I end up discovering good places to loot a lot easier.

[Blake]

I use fast travel so I can sell all the loot I've picked up then fast travel back to where I was

[SpeedFreak1972]

I usually avoid it that said there are a few questlines that sent you all over skyrim in that case I often break my promise not to fast travel

[Rez Elwin]

I don't think so. In some cases it's very helpful. Like doing the Gildergreen quest, if you want to do it the "correct" way, you need to escort a person to the tree. However, this person is not a true follower, so you cannot outfit them, they are stuck in normal clothes and a dagger. With the enemies you'll encounter between Whiterun and Eldergleam Sanctuary, he is almost certain to be killed.

However, he does follow you when you fast-travel, which means you can find Eldergleam Sanctuary early, then fast travel back to it when you have that quest.

There is also a LOT of backtracking in this game, and especially with the vanilla carriages. I am currently doing Mehrunes's Razor, and It would have been a waste of time to travel back to Markarth to take the carriage to Dawnstar after I obtained the final piece. Instead I can travel directly back to Dawnstar.

Exploration is fun, and I don't always use Fast Travel, but I do not like wasting time. Especially certain places like both HQ in Dawnguard. Having to travel to Riften then walk down the path over and over again or to Solitude and to ice water jetty would SUCK. I much prefer being able to pop over directly.

Same for Raven Rock, I'd have to got to Windhelm every single time I wanted switch locations.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Well you can say no to him. I never take him with me .... and yes I know you'll need him for the sapling

[John]

The game is improperly made for not using fast travel. Not enough carriages, too many fetch quests across the map, Thieves Guild being a thing in the game. I did it once.... i failed out of pure frustration of doing yet another 1 hour quest which normally should have taken me like 15 minutes.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Well why do you think people use mods? there are at least 2 mods that expand the carriage network extensively

[mikk011]

I mostly don't fast travel in ordinary gameplay, but Dawnguard keeps running you back and forth across the entire length of the map and that gets old real fast. And, as Rez Elwin mentions, some quests complete more smoothly with fast travel because of the wonkiness of temporary followers. Last playthrough, I wanted to travel to Ysgramor's Tomb with the Companions and we stalled around Dawnstar because Farkas got lost. I had to fast travel to get things back on track.