Intercontinental flight

I was wondering if anyone has asked, or given a reason against, why flying between other destinations on the map isnt possible here in TORN?
just thinking it would be nice to be able to fly between countries and wondered why it wasnt a thing.
what are peoples thoughts on this?

Because travel item limit, i dont want to go from SA with 29/29 items to anywhere else other than back home.

It gets asked regularly either in Q&A, GD or Suggestions. The response is always a no much like poker/casino while flying.

Being airbourne all the time for extended journeys like that would detract from a lot of the core combat gameplay such as wars, mugging, bounties etc

i just thought for war purposes also, just thought it might be fun to give someone the runaround for an extended trip if the circumstances required it

or add to it ?

Flying is as profitable as it is because it sucks. If you make it not suck a lot more people will do it which will kill it's profitablity. (In b4 "oh no, my flying income!")

If I could fly forever, I'd just take off with $20-30 mil on me and fly around all day collecting flowers, plushies, drugs, with timers and I'd only return to Torn at night to land and sleep.

A lot of players would do the same, and the game would be boring.

So there is a good reason for this.

The passport issued by the government of Torn is not recognized as valid by any country. Normally what would happen when someone does not have a valid passport is they will be detained and put on the next flight back to where they came from.

Because of our reputation for lawlessness, violence (especially while in custody) and not staying in a foreign country for too long, the countries that will allow our flights to land have cut a deal. They won't arrest us and will let us roam free within certain areas of the airport so long as every flight that departs goes straight back to Torn.

This is actually a primary reason against.

Nothing good can come from every player level 1t5 and over being able to remain in flight for an entire war.

I very much doubt that it’s “meant to be boring and a time waster” as if someone designed it with that sole purpose 0.o
the fact that it is is subjective.

Go read Ched’s replies to suggestions to improve flying. He’s said it multiple times.

You've got 15 seconds !

subjective eh?

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Regardless of anyone's opinions, this has been asked dozens of times, and the only factual information we have is that Ched stated this is a planned feature. No updates since then so that's all you can state as an answer.

Still stand by what I said…:)
also still think it’s a good idea

I'm sure you do. Most people think anything that will benefit them is a good idea, regardless of it's overall impact.

There is no realm of possibility that enabling everyone level 15 and above to remain in constant flight during an entire ranked war is beneficial to the game.

Lol, hey Feral-Fox. Now this is a comment that is subjective.

link to source?

I wouldn't begin to know where to find it, but I have read it, so it does exist somewhere.

The thing is the post itself is from at least 4 years ago. I want to say from 2017 but can't remember for sure. Regardless was from the time before ranked wars were released and no word on it since.

The release of ranked wars was a huge thing, that caused a ripple effect of other changes and adjustments to game mechanics to keep them from being abused during wars. **Being unnattackable overseas after 7 days instead of 24 hours comes to mind.** So it is a distinct possibility that ched may have changed his mind on this issue seeing its potential for abuse, it's not like he would make a post about changing his mind. Or maybe he didn't, I don't know. Hence it being subjective.