103112-i-love-this-game-with-all-my-heart-but

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I'm sure this has been mentioned at one time or another, but I personally wanted to bring this up. Nexus is completely missing that whole immersion factor that's present in other MMOs. For instance, going from leveling zone to leveling zone is a matter of returning to the capital city and then clicking a transport ship.
 
I hate to bring up WoW, but was boarding a zeppelin or a ferry to get between continents really all that bad? Certainly not for me. It made the planet as a whole seem vastly more connected than Nexus currently. I personally wouldn't mind at all having to board a transport ship or something in Thayd to get to Olyssia. That simple inclusion of the map that we would see when traveling from continent to continent in WoW made the planet monumentally less "chopped up."
 
Perhaps this is something that Carbine has taken into consideration by now. But for a game that consists vastly about exploring a new world and uncovering mysteries, it is very strange to me that Nexus doesn't seem like a "world" at all. I mean for god's sake, there was only a click and a loading screen to get to Farside. Which is offworld. Is that not a huge missed opportunity? How much cooler would it have been if you had to board some kind of cool ship with a cluster of folks and blast off to the moon?
 
Even a game like SWTOR had a little of it. Sure you have your own starship to travel between planets, but even to transport between the fleet, you boarded a small ship and watched as it careened through space. 
 
Again, maybe it seems like I'm just spinning my gears about this whole deal. But, personally, I feel as though this was a colossal missed opportunity.	
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Travel scenes are too slow for a game like this.
 
#hardcore	
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			My favorite is the ubiquitous use of "getting knocked the cupcake out" to transfer between areas while questing.	
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I'm sure this has been mentioned at one time or another, but I personally wanted to bring this up. Nexus is completely missing that whole immersion factor that's present in other MMOs. For instance, going from leveling zone to leveling zone is a matter of returning to the capital city and then clicking a transport ship.
 
I hate to bring up WoW, but was boarding a zeppelin or a ferry to get between continents really all that bad? Certainly not for me. It made the planet as a whole seem vastly more connected than Nexus currently. I personally wouldn't mind at all having to board a transport ship or something in Thayd to get to Olyssia. That simple inclusion of the map that we would see when traveling from continent to continent in WoW made the planet monumentally less "chopped up."
 
Perhaps this is something that Carbine has taken into consideration by now. But for a game that consists vastly about exploring a new world and uncovering mysteries, it is very strange to me that Nexus doesn't seem like a "world" at all. I mean for god's sake, there was only a click and a loading screen to get to Farside. Which is offworld. Is that not a huge missed opportunity? How much cooler would it have been if you had to board some kind of cool ship with a cluster of folks and blast off to the moon?
 
Even a game like SWTOR had a little of it. Sure you have your own starship to travel between planets, but even to transport between the fleet, you boarded a small ship and watched as it careened through space. 
 
Again, maybe it seems like I'm just spinning my gears about this whole deal. But, personally, I feel as though this was a colossal missed opportunity.
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My favorite is the ubiquitous use of "getting knocked the cupcake out" to transfer between areas while questing.
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You mean in Whitevale? Holy crap was I disappointed when they did that. We're on a planet full of *cupcake*ing teleporters and hurrr you get knocked out so you can't see where you went. There weren't even any sound effects to go with being dragged around.
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Yeah the ICI guys, it happens in some shiphand missions and a few other places too. It feels really lazy to me. 
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			There have been a few threads simpler to this highlighting this problem, even the map itself just doesn't feel connected. To me it feels more like each zone is its own instance, completely unaware of the existence of the others.	
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			I suppose I need to keep reminding myself that this is "Vanilla" Wildstar. Perhaps this is all subject to change in the future.	
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There have been a few threads simpler to this highlighting this problem, even the map itself just doesn't feel connected. To me it feels more like each zone is its own instance, completely unaware of the existence of the others.
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Things like that happening in missions don't bother me at all; it's a one-off. beyond that you can hop on your chosen mode of transport and go wherever you want on the planet. Off-world, sure, different story, but that's minor comparatively. Might have to swim a couple places, but that's still making your own way between non-loading screened zones. Otherwise, grab a taxi; that's no different that a boat or zeppelin.
 
And unless they start growing tier 1 resources in the higher zones, you've at least got that drawing you back... well, maybe, some day if people learn not to undercut themselves on the exchange.	
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One of the older threads on travel...
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/50248-taxi-a-waste-of-my-game-time/page-19?hl=taxi&do=findComment&comment=1052029
Personally I enjoy the system we have minus maybe a rocket to farside. That would be cool....ya that would work.	
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i found leveling between 11- 15 and Malgrave a bit bad
 
Best leveling zone for me was Farside :)	
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Look up the taxi travel thread. You will answer your own question. Its an opportunity people didn't seem to want. If they can't handle a trip in a flying car to move through a zone they are not gonna want one for jumping inbetween continents. People want to jump in and out fast and not do any of that seeing the world stuff.
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Ah, bummer. I remember one of the coolest things when I was brand new to WoW was getting to see friends arrive via boat or boarding the zeppelin, complete with its own little vendors.
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I mean you can still take the taxi through the zone to the major city. I guess technically it wouldn't be hard to connect them through larger zones. I've walked or hover-boarded through most any connected zones so far. And I agree it would be fun to just take a trip through them all. Just seems that not everyone would be interested in that type of thing. Takes too much time.
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			This game lacks immersion on many levels, lack of immersion the reason i canceled my sub even though i loved most of the parts of this game. they GOT to understand that we are not the ex wow players. not all of us at least, they got to understand that the new generation of gamers asks more than just endless grinding, in fact we hate grinding, and we hate features that ruin immersion. bad story telling was also one reason i cant get immersed in this game. zone stories are awful most of the times and theres barely any VO or cinematic to give you that awesome epic feeling that you are part of a story	
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Humans complain Taxi too slow and take too long, want faster destination
Humans complain instant teleportation not immersive, want to see the world.
Chua confused now. What is it?
See world and fly around, or teleport around play faster?
Chua swear, Humans so illogical.	
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Humans complain Taxi too slow and take too long, want faster destination
Humans complain instant teleportation not immersive, want to see the world.
Chua confused now. What is it?
See world and fly around, or teleport around play faster?
Chua swear, Humans so illogical.
 
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I'd enjoy a little more of the feel of "travel" at least when taking ports to areas, it hasn't been choppy in any taxi I've ridden though. Considering the leveling areas as an Exile though...
 
You travel off a ship
Land in starting area
Travel by ship/teleport to the 2nd starting area
Walk to your main city
Walk to your next zone
Walk to whitevale (in the case of exiles)
fly to Farside
fly to Wildderun
fly to Malgrave
Walk to Grimvault (maybe fly).
 
So really, you fly to the moon (no surprise there, you're not walking there) and to other continents but you walk most of the time you're there. Maybe it's just the maps fault in the end for not showing the whole world map on top of the grid making the zone maps feel restricted.	
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taxi rides allow me to take a break, how many times are you riding in one though. I'm not going back and forth while leveling, I'm just going forward I set my recall to thayd and I use it when I need it. At 50 I have to ride the taxi from grimvault to blighthaven unless I get a summon and that's about it. All the daily zones are instant in and out. 
 
Gotta maximize that leveling time quit wasting it back and forth between areas because you forgot something.	
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It's because the two are mashed together, taxis aren't very immerse at all (they're big and you can't zoom out far, and the game goes really choppy in taxis, plus the constant chatter from the driver, overall pretty meh) AND move slowly, add instant teleport for some some zone transfers and you complete the disjointed feeling.
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Not choppy on my machine but I have a high end one. Thats a tech issue not an immersion issue. And I like the taxie jokes. Thats all opinion.
 
 
Each to his own.
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My 'puter is a few years old, but I'm usually in the 50-100fps range no matter where I am, except taxis. Not sure why.
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I absolutely hated the boat / zeppelin bullshit in WoW. So immensly annoying to see that *cupcake* blimp *cupcake* off to whereeverland just as I miss that *cupcake*ing desperate jump to catch the *cupcake*ing thing.
 
Blimps and boats and elevators and whatnot are usually nothing more than hidden loading screens. Only instead of loading screens you get some animation or something. 
There is nothing more boring than sitting through a mandatory travelbit in a game. Remember ME1s elevators? 
Did anyone love the ME1 elevators?	
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Humans complain Taxi too slow and take too long, want faster destination
Humans complain instant teleportation not immersive, want to see the world.
Chua confused now. What is it?
See world and fly around, or teleport around play faster?
Chua swear, Humans so illogical.
 
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This human requests a Chua approved and authorized flying mount to fly accross the connected zones of Nexus. Will pay 100 plat.
 
I also agree with OP the world feels like instanced pockets. Also with all the technology on Nexus and we're relegated to slow cupcake ground mounts.
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Funny human mentions this.
Was originally planned in WildStar.
The Community happened.
 
 
 
"I once had a flying mount in WildStar, then I took a Community to the knee".
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I'm surprised there was a lot of anti flying mount. The communities prize for being vocal is the amazing, the awesome, the diabolical.... hoverboard lol :P
 
Altough from a dev perspective it's prob a lot more complex if people can fly around all over the map so that might have played a factor as well. I can't remember seeing flying mounts in any game outside of wow (Aion had the glider style system and a few other games did that as well but nothing full fledged).
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Misunderstand.
Was all ready for game, but devs took out during CB and OB.
Cause Humans cried did not want it.
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Agreed, OP-- I really dislike the 'click, teleport to zone' approach as well, and for the same reason. It instantly makes the game feel like a series of maps instead of a larger 'place'.
 
But what I really don't get is, if you're really determined to do things this way and let people just jump directly into other zones... why not at least dress *that* process up in a way that makes it seem reasonable? I mean, why use the aircraft as the implied means of travel when you're going to be teleporting? Just have a teleporter complex. Then I wouldn't feel like something was just plain skipped.	
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I don't like the sky textures and especially backgrounds in W*.
They are too pixelated. :(	
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Agree that Wildstar does not really take advantage of its open world as well as, say, WoW.  Zone progression is a mite of a disappointment.
 
It does, however, get better once you hit Malgrave/Grimvault/Blighthaven, since you actually have to walk from one zone to another.	
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Humans complain Taxi too slow and take too long, want faster destination
Humans complain instant teleportation not immersive, want to see the world.
Chua confused now. What is it?
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