Originally posted by ChinoValley:

Originally posted by Mharr:

The problem is that jumping worlds means abandoning a whole lot of building hours.

No, you're not getting it. Your characters are not tied to worlds. You can have a dozen worlds created and only one character, then visit them all with that one character. You have one as your main world with all your build, you can log into different worlds, do your gathering/exploration, logout with your loot then login to your main world to drop off your loot and etc. Multi-world game, not limited to 1 per character.

Yeah, it's a solution - it's not a good one.

Look at the design - you can't portal metal, implying you should have to travel long distances and take advantage of all the things the game has.

But at the same time you can just jump from one world with a pocket-full of silver to another where you're right besides a smelter?

Nah.

I understand it as a temporary gimmick due to EA, but it's counter-intuitive to the grander design.