[Azzo]

I'm honestly confused what's forcing them to go to the unused towns. Is it the possibility? Because the possibilities are there already, as a blue player you walk into the portal tower basement in brit and you have 5 books with runes to just about everywhere.

If it's not the possibility then I can't see what it is that's forcing them to go to the unused zones. The original post is describing a gate which you walk into, and you pick a destination. Slightly different to picking a rune location in a runebook, but it's the same result.

So unless I'm missing something in the proposed system, you said it yourself, if a rune library won't force people to travel to unused towns then the proposed solution won't either. If you have other goals here I'm open to them.

Imo to get players to move to other towns you need to provide things of worth for people to want to idle there, not change how they get there. This can be done by player actions as well as staff actions imo. If all you do is change the method of transport people will just use it to go to the places they're already hanging out.

For what it's worth I voted Yes, towns only.

EDIT: Forgot to finish this properly. I like the idea of towns only, but I would recommend making it free for young players, and expensive for normal players. New players get a chance to see the rest of the world and normal players will probably continue using their established systems.