Remove Family summon

Let's test it first and see how bad the planned system is, if bad at all.

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I see you've never had a family with busy lives, sometimes random work emergencies, etc, where the teleportation is the difference between "something broke at work and I had to fix it, but I can still join late" and "guess we're not playing today". Planning ahead is good, but not everyone has the luxury of a perfect life. Family Summon is made for them. In a guild? Yeah, the guild was going to go on without you either way. But for a family? It makes a difference. There are potentially better ways to do it, but the base concept matters.

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You misunderstand. It is not about being "low on time and needing to progress". It is about being low on time and wanting to play . If your friends can't all gather together easily because of scheduling difficulty, you still want to play with them in this multi-player role-playing game. @Strevi 's non-solution is for everyone to go solo instead, if anything makes life difficult on that two nights a week you can coordinate everyone at once. It's not about progression. It's not about increasing numbers, or getting loot. It's about playing . Together .

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Something that has been suggested before, actually, and I think works well is this:

Instead of teleporting players, have them auto-path and auto-run to the summoner. This takes away all teleportation and 'sudden arrival' based exploits, and at first glance it looks like it would ruin the spirit of the thing, but if you look a little closer, a lot of people in the target demographic will have more time to AFK while they say, cook dinner, or deal with whatever else, which lets them get in position for content while they're able to actually play. It won't work for everyone, but it keeps the theme up, and it definitely helps with the teleportation-induced problems.

You'd configure it to take main streets to avoid mobs. Maybe have an optional icon that shows the player has no materials or such on them (if you keep that requirement) so they're less likely to get killed. Probably no immunity, but maybe you respawn at the spawnpoint nearest the summoner if you do get killed.

Suddenly it's a pain in the ass for little profit, to guilds, but still useful to most actual 'families'.

@TheWolfofGar , that's fair. If you got home from work, and only had time right then, you'd have had to have set up the autorun with someone while you prepared for bed the previous night. If you had several hours to play, didn't have to make or eat dinner, take a shower, or anything else that night that you could get out of the way while you auto-ran to give you more game time later, you... might not be the target audience in the first place. But that's a fair criticism. This variant doesn't try to solve that case. It's an alternative to Teleportation in case that's determined to be too abuseable, as many have worried. If it turns out there are no problems with Teleportation, they should obviously just do that.