Late comming but Overland Map - Slow and nights are WAY too Dark, also a simple scale map??

The idea that a person is willing to buy resources, rather than take long, tedious overland travel, is not logical.

Most people buy resources, rather than gathering, is because of multiple factors. Walking is the least of them. The time it takes to gather them, haul them because of weight limits, and people who hold full time jobs, has a larger factor.

If the only way to get a resource is to travel by foot there and back to somewhere (bank, vendor, town, etc), that's going to get really old, really fast, even for the resource gatherers. If my only choice is to spend that much time gathering resources, or buying them from someone else, I probably wouldn't play the game if I was a crafter.

Why make something that should be fun, painful?