Thoughts for those albion changes
While I don't mind these changes myself (too new to notice much), I do believe the game world needs help which would make travel and the game overall a lot more enjoyable.
-Zones are too small which causes more loading which loses a sense of immersion in the game. There is also WAY too many zones. It was a huge mistake to make this game world bigger.
DAOC had a lot of things that made travel much less of a hassle: WASD, speed classes (required for most roaming), auto-taxi horses, /follow, smaller/cleaner world layout, could autorun from A to B rather easily without having to navigate gaps/cliffs/dead ends that albion online's map is covered in, etc.
-My original point was at the start of DAOC there was almost no group speed and the world was HUGE and took hours to get around and yet no one complained. Long travel times are not necessarily a bad thing. The key thing here you talk about is you could afk while traveling. Following or being on a horse let you go take a piss or grab something to eat. The way this game is made these things are impossible and force you to either log out or afk in dangerous areas.
For me it's just the compounding of issues: click to move, slow speed,
have to follow the road or navigate maze world with less than amazing
maps, and everything so spread out with little in between.
I get what they are trying to do with the overall map, but it needs more than a bandaid.
-I don't mind the crappy graphics. I don't mind the boring map. The critical thing is the map is too big and there is no longer PVP. The band aid comment I made was more to do with making traveling faster which to me was a very minor issue compared to the more serious concerns happening with the game right now. SI "fixing" the traveling speed so quickly was just a complete surrender to the forum whiners. This will enable these whiners to cry louder and get more stupid shit put in the game.

May
A few questions about Albion Online, will help you play in Albion
All founder packs give you at least 30 days premium. That does not mean that on release the packs will keep the 30 days. Probably it will be removed. But yes, at least in this last beta it has been easy to pay the premium with ingame money. Depends on the time you have. My advice it to get into the game ASAP to start finding out what this game is about. You will be lost at the begining and need to learn basic stuff that will speed you up once released.

Sep
This is very much the premise of albion as well and alpha felt equally dangerous
As a Albion Online player you're inclined to do what's most effective, and right now there's far too many safe zones allowing players to progress.

Jan
New -2 Tier Fame Requirements
Currently the best path to take progression wise is to rush to t4.3, as you are on a t6-7 equivalency while still being able to kill t4 monsters to achieve that gear power.

Feb
Some suggestions about Albion Online
I love the use of minimal fast travel. It forces exploration and allows us to truly enjoy the world as we travel on foot and it reminds me of EVE Online in that regard but I'd like to suggest maybe adding a speed boost when travelling directly on a road.

Aug
The Albion skills and time spent gathering are replaced with a Transmuter
Only a gatherer can use the transmuter. Depending on your mastery level at each tier depends on what enchantment level you can transmute.

Dec
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