IDEAS FOR RYZOM

Wherein is the frustration? You swim, you get wet, all the dirt washes off so you are clean when you come out. Whilst swimming you get to admire the landscape around you and the lakescape below you.

Unlike running in Forest or Jungle or Desert you do not have to worry about being attacked or eaten or shot by bandits. And if you do haul out on a beach and are attacked, safety is just a few meters away.

If you need to go fast, use teleport pacts or New Horizons. They beat any surface travel speed, be it swimming or running.

Water Mounts! That would totally be the best solution to this... And it shouldn't be that hard implementing, since it works more or less on a different project's server (khaganat).

Other than that i agree that swimming gives you the benefit of not being attacked and that it is a fair downside that you are slower.

that there's absolutely nothing while swimming is a part of the frustration.

Nothing? I saw some fishes...