102507-taxi-speed

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			I seriously think that taxi speed needs to be increased, and volume of driver reduced.	
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NavMate or Guard Zone Map addons have the option to mute taxi driver in flight.
 
As for the speed - yeah it's utterly terrible.  I dunno what the thinking behind making it so slow is.	
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NavMate or Guard Zone Map addons have the option to mute taxi driver in flight.
 
As for the speed - yeah it's utterly terrible.  I dunno what the thinking behind making it so slow is.
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The part that really makes no sense is that it follows the road. You're in a flying hovercar that follows the road. Why?
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It simulates a real taxi.
 
 
He takes you the long way.
 
And overcharges.
 
While trying to distract you with cheesy stories.	
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I seriously think that taxi speed needs to be increased, and volume of driver reduced.
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The taxis are fine as is.  You can teleport to your home city once a day, and your last saved hub once every 20 minutes.  The taxi rides are just like the flight paths in WoW, and I enjoy them just as I did those.
 
On a side note, what are you doing that takes you on the taxi so often you feel the need to increase it's speed to save a few minutes?	
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The taxis are fine as is.  You can teleport to your home city once a day, and your last saved hub once every 20 minutes.  The taxi rides are just like the flight paths in WoW, and I enjoy them just as I did those.
 
On a side note, what are you doing that takes you on the taxi so often you feel the need to increase it's speed to save a few minutes?
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It's an old thing they took over from their Blizzard years, very unneeded since there are transmats every where. I preferred the GW2 way, waypoints on various locations.
 
But there is also an understandable part of it. They made the content and want people to see it through Taxis too, otherwise people would be teleporting from waypoint and waypoint wasting all content.	
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The problem is.. once you hit 50, the only thing you ever taxi for again is World Bosses (if you're on that part of attunement quest) or Blighthaven (Every damn day)
 
When I log in in the morning, I have a routine, where I will port out of House, back to Town, run to Grimvault teleport, then jump on the taxi, then go make a coffee. When I'm done making coffee, my char will be there. Then I can actually play.
 
The problem with this?
Sometimes I get bored, or distracted by something, and forget to come back.
 
If you want your players to play your game, I understand you want them to see the content, but having a bunch of dailies be so inaccessible from the main town (where 90% of people hang out), that people get up and leave their computer for a few minutes whilst their char is traveling there, just makes them Not play the game.
You can argue all you want against Wow's allowing-flight (and I know Blizz devs do all the time), but at least players will sit there at their comp and steer their char whilst flying to where they want to go. They will also stop and go "oh What's that?" and check it out every now and then. I'm not saying "WE NEED FLIGGHTT", and some way of teleporting around is fine, but do it in a way it doesn't encourage your players to wander off and find something else to do. The last thing WS needs right now is people wandering off bored with it.	
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> no wonder he has a 1 passenger seat
 
Not really. If two people, even ungrouped, take the same taxi / destination at the same time, they'll fly together.
 
 
 
 
Pro-tip: as an Aurin, NEVER take a taxi with a Granok...	
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Pro-tip: as an Aurin, NEVER take a taxi with a Granok...
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			I just take ship to malgrave, place translocate beacon and transmat to blighthaven.  Who needs taxis.	
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i do not understand why we need a taxi in the first place while we have teleporter anywhere.
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			1. Enter Taxi2. Tab + Alt3. Fap4. Switch back to game5. Continue	
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			Technically the taxi still faster than our mounts unless u have the highest mount speed which I'm not sure if its gonna make it any better. But yeah taxi speed need to be increased or their bathway need to be shorter	
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			But the taxi driver doesn't ask questions. Heck, he doesn't even ask where you're going! (or something like that) also, he seems to hate Aurin. The jerk.	
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But the taxi driver doesn't ask questions. Heck, he doesn't even ask where you're going! (or something like that) also, he seems to hate Aurin. The jerk.
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He hates mechari more. Double jerk.
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Why does the Exile taxi cabbie tell us stories about driving mechari around? Seems like the race-specific tidbits should be faction-locked, honestly.
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Just like Protostar, he doesn't care who his customers are as long as they pay (and listen to his stories).
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Just like Protostar, he doesn't care who his customers are as long as they pay (and listen to his stories).
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