(08-02-2016, 03:24 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah but it doesn't seem to address the problem at hand.
1) How exactly can they tell where you are going or from where you are coming?
2) You can also apparently TP out of nowhere in the desert in the direction of an aetheryte, you don't need to be close to one at first, just at your arrival.
This is deduced by the fees themselves. They charge you based on distance. Which means they have some method of tracking that distance via the aetheryte itself or some other spell or device or what have you and charging you appropriately. Teleporting not via an aetheryte would seem to result in the Y'shtola and Thancred's current problems. Welcome to joyful world of paying for safe and monitored teleportation. Please do not use when trying to be sneaky.
EDIT - As for personal aetherytes in the residential wards, probably collected and monitored by those in charge of the wards.