It's still far enough to be a one day trip by horse as Ophilia confirmed... than you need to let the horse rest for a day or it will be dead before you are home.
If anything the trip to the monastery seems far to fast Claire indicated that if you make haste you'd reach the old Boars inn at best within a day useing a cart (well atleast dureing daylight and a bit of time before sunset)
Pia said one day. But she is... was a travel merchant. Horse was pulling a cart with wares. That ain't riding a horse.
Claire was assuming a cart might reach inn by evening. But I'm taking what she is talking with a grain of salt, because she isn't traveling between Arenfield and Kirlic. Also we can reach monastery, which is far behind the inn, in a cart, by evening.
But if we really have to talk about "travel time" and "resting" then explain to me how MC can easily travel, by foot, from Arenfield to Calan's Rest, then travel to mercenary camp, then to Rumah, then to mine in Arenfield's passage, from there to hunting grounds and from there to swamps and back to Arenfield within a day if not half of it.
I don't think there is really need to push for unecessary realism in something so simple like fast travel via horse between major locations for immersion purposes instead of just... teleporting there.
An horse can work only if there are vast lands of green pastures, hills with flowers, fences to jump and places to discover and gather treasures.
You can dismount the horse and kill enemies and open chests, mount the horse and jump over difficult obstacles.
Very cool mechanic for ASWS right?
Yeah that’s not gonna happen, you are free to install it in your game tho.
Yeah, let's turn ASS into fucking mix of Elden Ring, RDR2 and Wicher and Zelda horse combat simulator. Oh... We should also have new abilites when on horse back. But to hell with horses! We should be capable of taming that Ogre and use him both as mount and part of the group!
I guess having a immersive fast travel option without having to tag along half of Arenfield with you is too much to wish for.
Chyos once said that Kirlic should be the last city and Varron or Parakis will have either a small preview but that’s it; everything else for the sequel
Given the size of the game as is right now I doubt the engine would support any more locations... I mean I wished we could get a chance to travel to that tortuga island with their tanned girls but with the war going on I doubt we could charter any ships to that southern island
Engine ain't the problem. She can handle it alright. Problem is... in the core gameplay. ASS is complex game. A porn game with branching. Thus new locations as villages and cities doesn't mean just new maps and few quests, but also characters of which female ones are fuckable by local population and MC and evey single scene for it. That just too much work for a single person.
Just look at current ASS Arenfield, how much content is there, think about how long Chyos was working on it and then multiply it by ten, because that's, probably, how long it would take for him to create Parakis with the same level of dedication.