Fast travel really ruins this experience.

[hansen92791]

Fast travel should not be a part of any survival game, period. Traveling is an important integral part of the survival experience, and before I found out i could fast travel, my journeys were much more difficult, had to be planned more, required more thought, and added more risk and excitement to the game.

The fact that I can travel to the ends of the islands, collect loot, explore and not have to worry about backtracking, its now sad. I wish I never would have figured this mechanic out, it shouldnt be in the game.

Basically set your spawn point at your base, go travel explore and loot. Then when your ready to head home just quit the game and log back in and you are instantly transfered back to your base with all your gear/loot. Just make sure not to sleep at night anywhere else, and night traveling honestly is not really that hard past the beginning.

Once you know how to do this its hard to not use it as it saves so much time. If its an exploit so be it, once you figure it out, lets see you not want to use it.

Smalland developers you might as well just put an ingame mechanic to fast travel home whenever you want, cuz this exploit is so painfully obvious to everyone.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by hansen92791:

Fast travel should not be a part of any survival game, period. Traveling is an important integral part of the survival experience, and before I found out i could fast travel, my journeys were much more difficult, had to be planned more, required more thought, and added more risk and excitement to the game.

YOU might think it shouldn't be part of any survival game but I hold the opposite view. Ark thrives with fast travel, mmorpgs thrive on it. People like what they like... or don't. Debate over game mechanisms like this are pointless. You won't persuade any people to your point of view and nor would I to mine.

[Chance_HC]

yeah most majority games have a fast travel action in some way, valheim has portals, grounded has the zip line. oyu say it ruins the experience but im sure youve played many gamess that has it and use it to get to places quicker

[Sythalin]

Contrary to what children believe, just because you dislike something doesn't mean everyone else has to dislike it as well. That's the mentality of a toddler. If you don't like it, don't use it. Express some self control, like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ adult. No one is holding a gun to your head kiddo.

[TamanduaGirl]

You can just choose not to do it. Like there are difficulty sliders now, did you set them all to the minimum? Did you turn on peaceful mode? If you said no to either of those then you are just as capable of not using log out to fast travel as you are of not choosing the most easy settings.

[Subsonic]

If you don't like it then don't use it I guess, right? Why the big post? It's not a competitive game, there's no "equal playing field" across worlds. Just play it the way you enjoy it and let others do the same. I actually think your base moving around the map is very helpful, and being able to port it into multiplayer games is a really nice feature. So--yeah, guess I disagree with your opinion. The whole exit game and come back at your spawn point, maybe that'll be "fixed" later or maybe it won't. Doesn't really matter, it's a choice if you do it and if you don't like it then don't do it. You COULD post this suggestion to the devs instead of writing a multi-paragraph denouncement of the exploit/feature for the forum to chew on. But for now, just play the way you enjoy the game. If anyone else uses the exploit/feature then what impact does that have on YOUR game? Zero. Which essentially undercuts your whole manifesto up there. You do you and have fun with the game, don't worry about how others play.

[Kauldric]

Yeah, but, you don't have to use that mechanic? But I agree

[william_es]

This is entirely within the self control of the OP.

And I personally _hate_ that mechanic. If I have to stop playing for any reason (real world events), and I forget to make a bed to reset respawn.... I will reconnect to my game to find myself allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back in my main base, instead of 10 steps from some destination I was trying to reach. To me, it's not a feature to be exploited, but one to be avoided... actively avoided.

It both giveth, and taketh away, in equal measures. And in my book, anything that both helps and hinders in equal measures means it's just about perfectly balanced. I avoid it by making beds, you can avoid it by deliberately not exploiting it. Both entirely within our control

We are the masters of our own destiny.

[Padgey]

Don’t build on top of the trees instead build on the ground and then you have no fast travel options simple solution

[Gus McQuacken]

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Contrary to what children believe, just because you dislike something doesn't mean everyone else has to dislike it as well. That's the mentality of a toddler. If you don't like it, don't use it. Express some self control, like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ adult. No one is holding a gun to your head kiddo.

I agree with this.. If you don't like it then don't use it. Telling the rest of us that, this is some like of deal breaker or something like it, is nothing more then "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for the sake of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"

[☢» MACHIN3 «☢]

wait.. theres a fast travel option?? LOL

46 hours and I finally chose to complete the quests and kill all the bosses and I never knew there was a fast travel option..

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by ☢» MACHIN3 «☢:

wait.. theres a fast travel option?? LOL

46 hours and I finally chose to complete the quests and kill all the bosses and I never knew there was a fast travel option..

In a very limited form. If you Quit/Play you reappear at your spawn bed with all your gear and your pet, should you have one. Why anyone cares how I play my single player game, God knows. I don't do multiplayer at all now because it's impossible to find a server you were playing on. (Maybe when dedicated servers are a thing...) It's not Fast Travel as it is in games like Ark where you can choose what beds to travel to.

For long expeditions I make a hut at my destination that includes a bed, then activate it and should I die that is where I appear. Handy for shorter corpse runs. Also handy for gathering stuff and when full, whistle to summon my ladybug and transfer stuff to it, then doing Quit/Play to camp out with my ladybug at my destination to store things in chests if I want to.

When I want to go to my main base, with my inventory and the ladybug inventory both full, I destroy the bed in the hut (the bed in my main base becomes the default spawn point) do the Quit/Play thing and I'm back in my main base.

[william_es]

Yeah, I make little sub-bases at key points, and set my respawn at beds in the mini-bases as I travel. Occasionally I have brain farts, and forget to rebind to my current location... then I log back in to find myself on the other side of the map.

But once again, I am actively trying to AVOID this "teleport" the OP is complaining about, not exploit it.

[OldDamnHero]

Why do people make problem's when there isn't one.......because it's there you don't have to use it.

[LostSajin]

Just gonna add one thing to all this.
Have Fun....

[Valhalla Awaits]

It should be removed, I agree. The lazy people in here be damned. But it's up to the developer to either make this a working feature, or patch it out as a bug/bad design.