Guild Wars 2

…regardless of origin.

In a roundabout way, this is actually already possible. Currently the most economic way to travel (barring on foot) is to queue for and travel to a WvWvW zone; take the asura gate to Lion’s Arch; take another asura gate to the capitol city nearest your final destination (if not LA); and then teleport to your final location – the fee for which will now be substantially lower than had you just ported from you initial location.

^that is a problem. People are queuing for WvWvW with no intention of participating in WvWvW, which screws with queue times. I’ve noticed a lot of people in the WvWvW zones just AFKing at the zone-in location… I’m sure the above mentioned travel method doesn’t account for all of those folks, but I have a feeling a good portion of them ported to the WvWvW zone, and tabbed out during the loading screen – then got distracted and either never returned, or returned after a long delay.

Meanwhile, folks who actually want to participate in WvWvW are stuck in queue.

Sooo… since we can already travel to capitol cities for free using that method; just cut the busy work out of it and let people port directly to any location within a capitol city, from any location in Tyria, for no charge. That will help reduce WvWvW queue times, and chop a chore out of traveling.

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As a side suggestion, adjust the cost of teleportation so that it is reflective of the process of first porting to a capitol city an no charge; then porting to the final destination, so that folks aren’t traveling to capitol cities for the sole purpose of economic travel… cities have overflow servers, so that isn’t a huge issue, but it’s still busywork and should therefore be eliminated.

You do not need to go to WvWvW, just to the Heart of the Mists, which has no queue.
However, I agree that if it is already free, it should be free without the extra loading screens.

At least make it free to travel to Lion’s Arch from any location. Crafting and other services are mostly in major cities. I hate having to pay for a trip there and back just to do business.

In GW1 you could access your vault at any city or outpost, travel between places was free, and were not needed as gold sinks. Why has that changed in GW2? Can’t they use the same gold sinks we had before? Usually crafting is a huge gold sink along with buying rare and exotic armor pieces. I hope ANET will re examine this issue and come up with a better solution for gold sinks.

I don’t even like going to the capitol city’s anymore.

There are botters spamming gold selling websites all the time.
Nothing is being done about this by the looks.

+1

No need to wait few loading screens when it could be instant.

How about adjusting travel prices so they count from nearest main city? For example when waypointing from Fields of Ruin to Metrica Province (almost 4 silver @lvl80) the cost would be only calculated by the distance between Rata Sum and the waypoint you’re going to (less than 1.5 silver @80). Get the point?

At the very least, traveling to any point in a city should be the same cost from outside the city, because once you are in the city, travel is free from within. You are just wasting a loading screen. (Yes, this is ignoring the PvP travel exploit)

I was going to post the same suggestion, so agree completely.

Thanks for the Mists shortcut btw, I hadn’t tried any PvP yet, so didn’t know!

My name is Ehrl and I approve of this message. +1

Paying to travel is BS period. Who are we paying? Anvils? Seriously…

Guild Wars 2 < Guild Wars
When you remove the core of something, can you really still call it the same thing?
Because Guild Wars 2 Doesn’t deserve it’s name at this point in my Opinion.
Guild Wars Travel: Free
Guild Wars 2 Travel: $$$

Stop being poor guys. They didn’t make it easy to get rich for no reason.

Well, I can see the good side: putting a cost on the waypoints makes people run around more, making the world feel more alive plus triggering more DEs. Also, it will create a barrier against hundreds of people porting in whenever someone announces a boss/event. With the cost attached, people are more likely to weigh it against the odds the bos swill be dead when they arrive.

None of those apply to the capital cities though. They feel more alive when people visit easily instead of only at the end of the day to craft and pick up trade stuff.

Cyrus.8261:

I was going to post the same suggestion, so agree completely.

Thanks for the Mists shortcut btw, I hadn’t tried any PvP yet, so didn’t know!

Just please don’t idle in the Mists.

In my opinion, only travel to Lion’s Arch should be free or lower cost to emphasize the role of the city as the official hub of Tyria.
Capital cities, not so much, because one could possibly crystallize as the inofficial hub (most likely DR) while other will be even more deserted. Also, it’s fully intended by ArenaNet that you aren’t able to just freely port to a city when you need to merch your stuff, both from a goldsink standpoint and to make the world seem more vast.

it should be free. i mean comeone everything is expensive like crazy atm i hope they change that cause it was not intended to be a grind all the time, now im grinding for money

Jamais,

We can already do that by porting to the mists and then to lions arch. Whether that’s intended or not, idk, but it is what it is. My goal is mostly to reduce the queue times for WvWvW; chopping some loading screens out of traveling is just crust on the pie.

Blak,

As more gold goes into the game, the sinks won’t seem so bad. Things always seem expensive in an MMO’s infancy.

Slaven.3721:

Stop being poor guys. They didn’t make it easy to get rich for no reason.

This is not about being able to afford to teleport or not, it’s about people bogging down WvWvW because they choose to go the free-but-timely route.

Just make it free to go to Lion’s Arch. Always. It makes sense to cost money to warp out. But why are you hitting us when we are coming and going Arenanet? Jesus. its not like you see the silver we pay to warp to LA. Especially if we all use the mists anyways.

+1

As already said, you are already able to teleport to any main city with the help of the Mists → Lion’s Arch → Portal to other main city

So, teleporting to a waypoint inside a city should be free…

Doing this would probably decrease the load times for LA anyway since you wouldn’t have people going there just to get to the other capitals, since they could just go straight there.

Waypoints inside a city are free once you’re there. There is free travel to LA. I don’t see any reason for free home city travel tbh. The cost is moderate as it is.

Ravina Gray.4719:

Waypoints inside a city are free once you’re there. There is free travel to LA. I don’t see any reason for free home city travel tbh. The cost is moderate as it is.

The reason is that it’s an annoying nuisance, a waste of time, and a server load, to go to HotM, then LA, then your capital, in order to make the travel free.