Nice stuff jorbtar, can't wait to check out the splishing of smol animals dropping into the shallows xD
I know it's been mentioned a lot before, but I do have to say that in at least world 10, from my experience, you couldnt have just *literally teleported anywhere* with a few arbitrary clicks. For example, I'd either have to be in with a certain village near me to get to community Fair by knarr and some road signs / milestones (which would still require some boating, mind you) , or I would have to trekk myself by rowboat all the way down quite a few map grids Southwards, past a mountain or two, just to find a road sign that would take me to CF. Some roads take hard work to use.
And the ability to do this is the result of hard, organized work. Yes, I understand after a lot of time it becomes ridiculous when considering the vast distances one is able to fast travel through, but in defense of that I can say it wasn't utterly gamebreaking for most normal players. Perhaps for those grinding questgivers ;p And it's not like even at the end of w10 all my neighbors had roads to every wuestgiver in the area. Most roads were old and broke off halfway, and were specififc to whoever made them. I didn't see any that said "end of the world map," that sounds like something I'd have to trekk to if I wanted to use it, and then extend to where I live for future convenience.
Also, I'm loving all the new stones and ore and trees. I consider it a good day when I learn about a mineral that I haven't heard of before or a nice tree species.
I'm even digging the aesthetic of this new governor's hat
