I don't know if anyone has noticed (or cared) that if you just walk around the wilderness the doesn't move as fast as if you used the map (point to point) Point in question, I just walked from the BMC mines down to Torrin Quarry and it took less than a day. If you do it by the map its like a week! Probably time is not a factor in the game with all the waiting that you do for shops to open,etc., but there has to be a reason why. I just seem to notice the stuff that doesn't mean anything! Parmanian