Speeders travel at 110% increased movement speed.

The average human does not run 15 mph over distance... That would be a four minute mile.

0.o

Don't see many Jedi or Sith hitting the track last time I checked. Not too sure what that random and very fallible stat has to do with speeders either.

O.O

1) Its not 30 MPH. Human beings cannot 'sprint' indefinately at 24 mph! It is a completely abstracted speed based on game play, not physics.

2) How can you 'enjoy the scenery' while dodging around mobs and trying not to be unseated? IF you alt-tab while on a taxi, perhaps thats your problem....

Yeah it's a waste of time, but my point is, actually it's not that much time. There is hardly any traveling grind in this game.

Speeders are fine as they are

Which part of "own routes and riding without rails" did you not understand? OBVIOUSLY I would use a Taxi for that sort of thing if a station was nearby, but thats not the POINT.

I'm talking about custom destinations and places that Taxis don't take you. It's called exploration.

I don't even understand why I have to justify this ****

You can't be this stupid.

NEWSFLASH: Its not the forums.

Like....whoa.....

I agree mount speeds do NEED to increase.

Remember in Star Wars when Luke takes off on a speeder?

It's like WHOOOOOOSH and it's gone.

It isn't like, put put put slowly off into the horizon.

I vote for reducing walking speed to 50%, then speeders will seem much faster :P

The first speeder licence vehicles do not reach 50kmph.
Second level speeder licence is exactly as fast as the first one.
Taxis do about 80kmph.

No belts, no airbags, and no need to wear a helmet, so I guess that's fine.

No, but clearly you can be that overly dramatic.

Taxis take you to within 5 minutes of any point on the map at WALKING SPEED. I didnt bother getting my first speeder until after the main quests on Balmora, I just didnt see the point.

At running speed on tatooine the longest I ever had to run for before reaching a quest at the edge of the map was 3 minutes.

I even had a timed mission on tatooine that was quite a way off from the base, it gave me a 45 minute timer and when I had completed the quest I 'only' had 7 minutes left. I shot off thinking 'god its going to take me ages to get back' and I was back at the base within 45seconds.

Peoples perception of time is utterly out of wack with reality if they think it takes a long time to get places.