Faster boring walks does not make it any less boring , just saying.

Zoom said something about it being less of a network change and more of a highway addition. If I recall correctly.....

I am still concerned with faster travel as it always ends up making the game world smaller.

Yes, we could all agree that travel is rather dull, but on the other hand, it is a necessary evil. You still have a choice not to travel between islands unless you are doing pvp or want something from beta. So this leaves us with 'forced' travel doing missions or mining, mostly inner island travel, which is where the big issue lies.

I'm so excited!!

zoom - will you move teleports or outposts for this?

Also Zoom

1.) Sparks - Remove them completely from Beta

2.) Interzon TP - Restrict IZ so that you cannot go from Alpha > Beta or Beta > Beta.

This may help with current Power Projection Issues on Beta.

Outposts no. Some teleports will be probably moved.

Regarding interzones: we have moved zones further away from each other. This feels more realistic, and the 3 factions now have a more distinct place on the map. You can still reach betas from alphas with interzones but only within the same faction, and barely. You'll see this soon on the test server.

regarding interzones -
why don't you make them teleport to player set waypoints with the condition that the waypoint has to be on another island in range?

that way at least the entry point to beta cannot be covered with a single proxy beacon or scout (that could teleport away).
I mean, do you really need a static teleporter as destination for those things to work? instance and coordinates should be enough. even a validy check if the waypoint is on passable terrain should be doable.

Ever since I started shortly after the game came out, people have been opposed to fixing the transportation clusterf*ck on the grounds that it was a "necessary evil."

More people have left this game after trying it because of that "necessary evil" than any other single element in this game.  The choice is to keep it and watch the game continue to wither away, or fix it.  Simple as that.

difference in other games:

• there are non-teleport travel mechanics that you can use AFK, like dropships and such.

• roads  are usually easy to use with autorun, and

• your character often runs in a world where most of the enviromental objects are bigger then your avatar (aka tree's), and

• you will find wildlife that you can grind (or someone else) left and right of those roads.

• Last but not least, most games allow you to FIGHT an unexpected encounter on that road with a realistic chance of winning and not holding up to long.

now when you look at perpetuum:

• only AFK travel method is Autopilot that doesn't priorize roads or shortest distance. just play A# pathfinding

• Your moving huge robots with high speeds around an empty world, where

• most thing in your enviroment are smaller then your avatar.

• The roads seldom allow you to use the autorun for more then a few seconds, if they are even present.

• You don't see much player doing anything because only a handfull of NPC spawns ingame are worth grinding, and Mining happens AFK somehwer off-road anyway.

• Random encounters are feared in Perp, and got removed completely, because they cannot be dealt with unless your already fit for something similar, which is very unlikely because you fit only for the one and only task you intended to go for.

there are so many factors just off because of the lack of scale and enviromental content. alone the camera perspective makes you think your moving ultra slow. If you think thats not important - jump into a light bot, zoom in max, set the alternate steering mode where left and right is turning, not strafing and camera follows robot rotation - you will see what i mean.