As the title says. I think each race should have free travel (or perhaps discounted?) to their home city. I don’t know why anet is focusing so much on LA, while the racial cities get ignored. You’d figure in the human city you would see lots of humans, in the charr city lots of charr, etc. It would give the city, an actual thriving CITY feeling.
I would rather they have a little sidebar somewhere on the UI, with all the racial cities and lion’s arch in a dropdown menu, just like the WvW selection is. It gets really old having to zoom in and out on the main map.
A teleport-thingy for your home instance, that’s what I’d want. Since Anet tried to get the home instance to work, it would be great if we saw an item or a button that gets us to our home without any costs.
That, plus more unlockables for you home, like a trophy shelf and a wardrobe for your countless skins.
I would like to see a teleport item that took you to your home instance, especially if they made sure every home instance had a merchant, TP, bank, and crafting instances in the home instance, close to that teleport location. Otherwise I don’t care, and they’ll never do that because it would cut down on cash shop sales.
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Go to lions arch via the pvp menu (no cost), teleport to asura gates (no cost), travel to any city (no cost)?
But when you’re in lion’s arch (being free teleport from anywhere), what motivation do you have to go to your city? You just stay in lion’s arch.
If the free teleport was directly to your city, then it’d be better, from OP’s point of view. And of course, from your city you can asura gate to Lion’s arch (in case you want to meet with someone else, events, whatever…)
this could both improve the population of every race home city and reduce lions arc huge loading time and lag.
Also i quote the fact that gw2 need some more UI personalization, even if that’s asking way too much in a game that doesen’t even show the hp% in numbers and have 0 utilities bar.
Every game has a hub, does not matter how easy different areas are to get to. Lions arch is the social hub of this game, getting different free ways to get somewhere else will not change that.
I would like this. It really would boost the hometown population, which can only be good. Now that there is the LFG tool everyone does not have to be in the same place (=LA).
I agree that they need to find a way to make other towns worth visiting but I don’t think a free teleport would solve it. I am not sure what would solve it really because LA is more accessible and convenient. The Home Instance serves very little purpose, the last time I visited it was while I was doing one of those Drinking minigames which were added as part of the Living story way back. One thing they could do is to finally implement the long overdue player housing system that was being talked about quite a bit after the game’s release. Towns are not the only maps that suffer this, apart from Queensdale, Frostgorge Sound and a few other maps, most maps in the game seem to be dead on most servers because unless you are doing world completion there is very little reason to visit most of the maps. They need to find ways to make more maps worth visiting more frequently.
Go to lions arch via the pvp menu (no cost), teleport to asura gates (no cost), travel to any city (no cost)?
The cost is load times multiplied by 3. I’d gladly spend 2 silver and some copper to avoid all that junk.
It’s because of the LA load times (especially at the start of fresh LS content) that I prefer to hang out in whatever cultural city is closest to me at the moment that isn’t LA.
Go to lions arch via the pvp menu (no cost), teleport to asura gates (no cost), travel to any city (no cost)?
The cost is load times multiplied by 3. I’d gladly spend 2 silver and some copper to avoid all that junk.
It’s because of the LA load times (especially at the start of fresh LS content) that I prefer to hang out in whatever cultural city is closest to me at the moment that isn’t LA.
Max cost is about 4 silver from anywhere in the world, why not just pay to go directly to wherever it is you are going.
I think that when in future we’ll see better design and importance of player’s home instance, like home instance upgradable with merchants, etc, we may see something like manual, free portal from UI or some item, which would work similar to.home portal like in Diablo 3.
I just pay the few silver to port directly to Hoelbrak. The time you save instead of going over the mists to LA you can use to chop some wood and you have your teleport costs back.
EVERY MMO is awesome until it is released then its unfinished. A month after release it just sucks.
Best MMOs are the ones that never make it. Therefore Stargate Online wins.
Go to lions arch via the pvp menu (no cost), teleport to asura gates (no cost), travel to any city (no cost)?
The cost is load times multiplied by 3. I’d gladly spend 2 silver and some copper to avoid all that junk.
It’s because of the LA load times (especially at the start of fresh LS content) that I prefer to hang out in whatever cultural city is closest to me at the moment that isn’t LA.
Exactly. Time vs money. That’s the entire concept of the game economy.
I fail to see what the problem is. Maybe its not a very good way to travel freely between cities and it is timeconsuming, but it is possible.
Tbh I’d rather have a kitten portal in Orr so you can go to Orr for free. Right now, the only option AFAIK is to to port to Lions Arch, run all the way to one of the factions (err actually I dont know if all have the portals, at least Vigil does) and port to Fort Trinity, run through entire Straits Of Devastation (oh how we absolutely love to run through that zone) and onwards to Orr.
I consider that slightly worse than the horror of loading Lions Arch and clicking one more waypoint, before you can run those 20 meters to your city portal.
I have a feeling this feature is already making it’s way into the game but it’s not totally free. What I mean is we already have the item to free travel to Divinity Reach through that certain place. How long will it be before we see similar items for the other cities? I am thinking not long at all, of course they would not be totally free being that you have to spend gems to buy the said item…..
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
