Guild Wars 2

Currently there’s little incentive to complete the waypoints / POIs / etc., in cities (the reward is 1 copper).

In addition to that, most people wanting to travel to cities simply teleport to the mists, from there to Lion’s Arch, and from there to the desired city, thus avoiding any teleportation fees. This wastes players’ time and puts unnecessary load on Arena Net’s servers.

So why not combine the two problems into a solution?

Once a player has 100% of map markers on a city, he / she should be allowed to travel to that city for free at any moment.

I like this idea. It would also mitigate the obstacle of waypoint fees (for certain level ranges) when you’re trying to get a party together. Teaming with friends who all have various objectives across the world can be a costly undertaking.

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Waypoint travel is breaking me as I travel all the time.
I have no option to invest in a mount to save $, so this option would be great.

Dislike, travel shouldn’t be free. The whole point of the world is exploration and if you don’t want to walk to a destination, then you should pay a fee. Keep in mind this is also a method used by the dev’s to make sure that coin is being destroyed on a daily basis.

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Once a player has 100% of map markers on a city, he / she should be allowed to travel to that city for free at any moment.

Players should not be allowed to port to any location if they are in combat for example. As for the incentive, it is free to travel in between way points within the city. That is incentive enough for most players (:

A compromise perhaps?
Free travel to Lion’s Arch with a 1 hour CD. Possibility of a guild perk to reduce the CD.

Although others have pointed out you can travel to Lion’s Arch from the Mists but I haven’t tried that myself.

I think that we should just be able to travel to Lion’s Arch for free from anywhere, since we can already do that by using the portal from the mists any time we want to. It would save me time from having to go through an extra loading screen.

I think they should REMOVE the free port to the mists

@Astran: Making PVP even less accessible… hmmm… and the waypoints are getting expensive by the way! I like the suggestion.

at least let us travel for a less amount of gold, so basically, yes

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In addition to that, most people wanting to travel to cities simply teleport to the mists, from there to Lion’s Arch, and from there to the desired city, thus avoiding any teleportation fees.

Omg that is such a good idea why did I never think of that. I’m going to start doing that now.

P.S. I agree with the suggestion.

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Dislike, travel shouldn’t be free.

You seem to be missing the point that it already is free. You just need to do three jumps instead of one.

PeAcE.5281:

Players should not be allowed to port to any location if they are in combat

Who said anything about teleporting while in combat? The game already prevents you from doing that.

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it is free to travel in between way points within the city. That is incentive enough

Can you explain your use of the word “incentive” there? Incentive for what? That is something that every player can do without unlocking the POIs / vistas / etc., so how exactly is it an “incentive” for anything?

I’m talking about giving players a fitting reward for the exploration. Instead of 1 copper and some transmutation stones, give explorers a reward that actually makes it easier to travel.