Originally Posted by
blankaex
I'm not so sure when you stopped, so I can't really tell what's "new", but a few quick "methods" that you may or may not know about include:
Personal airplanes. You can rent these from Mister/Master (I forgot which one it was) Irvin (I think). They cut the time boats travel down by a minute or two, so I suppose that would be considered faster. They are also available on-command, so you can leave whenever you want instead of waiting for a boat to arrive and take off.
Use the Dolpin in Aqua Road. If you take it to Sharp Unknown, you're one map away from Korean Folk Town. Which is like 4 maps away from Ludi. Also, if you take it to Herb Town, you can take a crane to Mu Lung, then over to Orbis for a (possibly) faster Aqua Road > Orbis route.
Also an exploit that is fairly well-known is the use of the Mystic Door skill in Alien Base Corridor 2 in NLC. If you get a Bishop or Phantom (or even a hat with the skill) to use Mystic Door in that map (and possibly other Alien Base Corridor maps), you'll get disconnected with the invalid pointer error message. Once you log back in, you'll be at Hidden Street: Spinel's Forest. From there you can talk to the NPC to get her to teleport you to pretty much any major town in the game. Use this method at your own risk, though, I'm pretty sure you can get banned for exploits.