Let's be honest. None of my characters died from corruption. In any case forcing player to run as fast as possible before corruption strikes isn't a good design indeed. ADOM has a wonderful world and traveling through it relaxing, picking every quest and not missing any possibility is the thing then should never be discouraged in such game because it would limit characters freedom, the thing for which many players love RPG genre.

The doesn't sound simple but one of the proper fixes would be making every step even to the previously visited location less boring and more challenging. Unfortunately the only available way for now is increasing DL for these areas depending on PC's level when monsters are generated.
Kinda getting from offtop to the current subj: the same could apply to the wilderness. Travelling through it is kinda boring and that explains why teleportation in wilderness is desired. Fallout 2 for example shows a better world map implementation (although need some tweaks to make it even more challenging).

Another solution is discouraging players from coming back. If game wouldn't gave a reason to visit locations again - no one would do so again. And that's the direct reason of shortcut existence. If they were removed players were forced to go over the same boring locations over and over again.

Okay, what I am talking about includes *wilderness travel*. This wouldn't address that. What is up with you today? This is the second topic you have posted in apparently without reading any of the arguments people have already made in it.

Seriously, what's up with this? Are you even trying here?

Yeah, if I'm in Terinyo and hit Ctrl+G and select Dwarftown, I don't see any reason why it can't travel across the wilderness. Not sure why the personal attacks or why you think I haven't read anything. Your argument was "making a player walk somewhere they've already been is annoying" and you suggested just being able to teleport to certain frequently-visited locations like Diablo. Someone else disagreed with this. My suggestion is a UI fix that doesn't allow for skipping content, but mitigates the tediousness of manually traveling far distances.

FWIW I've never once thought wilderness travel was tedious. The ID is really the only thing I've become annoyed with if, say, I'm going to SIL and back.

I feel kind of weird that I'm agreeing with gr3ybird about something.

While I don't see anything wrong with making the game harder (by increasing corruption) as time goes on, it is problematic and somewhat unintuitive that the overwhelming majority of the time you put into the clock is doing wilderness excursions, despite the fact that there's no real indication that this is the case, nor is there really any indication (AFAIK, unless there's a fortune cookie now or something) that day 90/180 etc. have any real significance. Probably it would make more sense to reduce the amount of time that it takes to travel a wilderness square, and increase it for dungeons. Really, the way that the day 90 limit is set up, it pretty much only punishes unspoiled new players, and maybe the odd ultra who can't get to the stone circle in time.

Some sort of town portal or returnable beacon or something does make a lot of sense. Yes, there's some circumstances where being able to skip a level would result in a genuine decrease in difficulty--skipping DH, maybe passing back through the cat lord level--but for the most part, the convenience could probably balance it out easily enough. Maybe something like this: Town portal is a class power available to all PCs, let's say, above level 15. You have to visit the town before going there (obviously). "Towns" in this case would be Terinyo, DT, Casino, HMV, I guess. Using town portal is a 20 turn action, and is automatically interrupted if you are attacked. So you can't use it to escape unless you're somewhere safe enough to w5 or smith. Disable it on non-teleport levels (but you can pass through them from another floor), D:50, and the ID. Adjust the corruption clock to reflect the difference in how players will be using their time, and adjust the final score so that you need a lower turncount before you get good scores. Maybe do a little tinkering with crowning costs since it's easier to haul huge piles of trash loot back to stores. I think it's doable without a huge amount of trouble.

Okay, sorry, I did get a little carried away there. That was a bit harsh.

I thought when you said interlevel travel you meant travel between dungeon levels, I didn't realize you were using 'level' to mean overworld locations too.

So this feature is suggested just because it would be more logical if the power of the spell increased with use? That's a very poor reason to make an already insanely powerful spell even more powerful.

Suggest adding a chance of failure instead.

@gr3ybird
@Jellyslayer
I see your points, but I still stand by my own - don't change the wilderness travel because it breaks the corruption clock. I'm against removing an immersion feature of race against impending doom in favor of saving time for traversing through a single wilderness map. Just move the Dwarftown to CoC 1 if that's such a big issue - it's not like having it 1 or 10 levels deep makes a game-breaking difference (and it would make more sense, I mean how do dwarves not get corrupted into WMoPC when staying for years on D:10?). And Casino? Remove it entirely, but that's a completely different issue and I really don't feel like touching upon it further in this particular post.

And while we're at it, how many roguelikes have Town Portal or any other very low turn count means of travelling between distant locations? Crawl for example still requires you to go on foot, it just speeds up the travel animation.

@ScooterFox
(A) The wilderness imposes very little turncount, but lots of game time, which is generally obscured to you. Game time from wilderness dwarfs that from dungeons, unless you have SLB.
(B) Wizards already have a big turncount boost from teleportation allowing them to skip selected large CoC levels. This would at least balance them out somewhat on turns.


Notes:
Probably disable on D:49, D:48 as well (if you've flipped the stairs, don't want to get them lost)
Would this let you escape the Rift without a climbing set if yours broke?