The charterstones re-implementation in W8 end was amazing, although it was too late. All suddenly everyone were able to travel and trade without an issue. More cultural events started happening, at last.
However, in W9 we have all been dashed with the travel weariness implementation that would require charisma. It hurts the new players most, since they are the ones to make the travels to the trade centers. Moreover, you would have to acquire rock crystals for the charterstones as well. It did not affect the big factions much, but as always, any nerfs and fixes hit the weakest first. So the majority of the hafen population are unable to travel, because they do not have enough charisma or they do not have the charterstones. Professional merchants also have to suffer, since they are unable to transport large amounts of cargo to trade centers due to the lack of charisma or hardness of removal of the travel weariness.
People have addressed the issue in several topic in C&I, but none of them got any reply from the devs. This petition is initiated to ask the devs to do a small fix that would change the dying world and help it live a bit longer, so we could enter the new world with more refined mechanics changes.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10687895
additional strawpoll vote on the same topic from Kenpachi: http://www.strawpoll.me/10688311