Guild Wars 2

As it stands, Southsun Shores is only accessible via an NPC in Lion’s Arch. It’s nice, but overall the zone seems disconnected with the rest of the world as a result.

Suggestion: Add a normal zone boundary to Sparkfly Fen and Caledon Forest. Sparkfly Fen even has a road going in that direction (on the map) that is blocked off by a rock. Plus, Sparkfly Fen is a 57-66 area so it’s not a terribly enormous jump for a player of that level to be experienced enough in the game to know to avoid that area.
An NPC guard could be added to Caledon Forest in order to warn/prevent lower-level players from accidentally wandering in there. After all, the Norn starter area Wayfarer Foothills is right next to the lvl70-80 Frostgorge Sound and that hasn’t caused too much trouble.

+1 Support!

Makes much more sense to me, and it makes the world feel more integrated. I know a lot of people just way point around, but there’s no reason to not have those land accesses as well as the waypoints.

I think they will fil up all the empty spaces in the map before the expansion, so, no worries, you will have a land option sooner or later

It’s not a major issue at all, and I’d imagine changing around existing zones would be a hassle. It’s just a consideration for Anet to take that I’m sure has been on many people’s minds.

It makes no sense why there is a road going there straight from Sparkfly, and you should technically be able to touch Caladon when you walk over that way…

but instead, there is a random area gap between Sparkfly and Southsun, and the area that is supposedly Caladon, is in fact just endless ocean when you look over that way.

Either someone messed up/forgot other zones existed around it…or this entire event was some intern project.

There’s many clues EVERYWHERE such as that west path in Sparkfly Fen: clearly Anet has some sort of master-design document for they layout of the world, not figuring it out as they go (for large scale planning).

They clearly have preestablished plans for that west path in Sparkfly Fen, as well as many other zones with similar paths.

It’ll be nice if one of the accesses was deep underwater, after finding a spot without the ‘strong currents’.

Hmm, I wonder if the server differences matter with this. Isn’t the Southsun Shores area a cross-server zone with shards?

Obsidian.1328:

Hmm, I wonder if the server differences matter with this. Isn’t the Southsun Shores area a cross-server zone with shards?

I doubt so. It’s probably handled by the same servers that handle the rest of the world.