I guess my main reason for asking this in the first place is being that I live in Australia alot of times when I log in I find very few people on and those that are on are no where to be seen. There have been days where I have wandered about and seen nobody else not once despite travelling all that way to Port and back again, which takes out an hour of my game time which isn't nothing to niggle about. All that time with nobody to RP with then what's the point? I dispise hack slash games and grinding is so boring to me. I actually tried staying in the Port for a while to see if RP wise things would improve... Guess what, same thing there was nobody about so I got bored and moved back to vallaki.
So yes I have an OOC reason for staying close to Vallaki alot, that's where any potential RP is going to be if any happens at all for me. Most of the time nothing happens there either but occasionally a newbie logs in whom I get to RP with
And that is a product of my real life location... Now if more Australians logged on or anyone in my time zone for that matter then this issue would be less of a problem. Fact is though you all live in the US or Europe so you're either asleep or working in real life. The only way I can get around this is to log in at really odd hours of the day. Say log in at 2am and play on from there, something I have been doing lately I have to admit, but it can't last forever.
Now I honestly don't see any issue with placing a level restriction on a Captain near the outskirts after all you're still free to take the long walk to tser pool if you are really that foolish enough to do so
And placing a captian there would make it honestly easier for someone like me to say you know... PM Mode --- Oh you're in Port , No problem be there in a jiffy, we can have fun roleplaying then
As it is, it's more often, "Sorry I'm still in Vallaki so be a bit before I can get to you"... The ussual reply then is.. "Oh never mind then, maybe we can hook up next time as I have to log soon" or something like that.
But I'm the minority, so I guess my vote don't count