"If there's a way to make it work I haven't heard of anyone doing it. Monsters tend to attack conventional aircraft engines and those aren't really enough to enable floating islands anyway. Levitating an island for long periods of time with magic would take a lot of points and mana to setup. And once you did who knows what the system would throw at you."

"I read a book that used interlocking vacuum-sealing force shields to make something like a blimp."

"That might be more mana efficient, I don't really know. I'm not a spellcrafter, I just use spells other people have designed. If it did you'd need to be sure it can't fail in a way that results in you dropping to the ground and again, deal with whatever the system throws at you. It seems to take ambition as a challenge. Also... we harvest things from the forest. It's where we get a substantial portion of our food and fuel despite the danger. Having a floating island would make that... complicated."

"Yeah, that's a thing the protagonist worked out.

"...wonder if you could make a tractor beam.  But that's probably not really worth the time..."

"Anyway, the thought I'm having is that you could go full mobile arcology, and take some of the ground with you when you leave, but tried-and-true here is a lot less volatile, and experimenting more volatile than it should be."

"It is a bitter irony that the system which claims to offer endless adventure significantly incentivizes extreme caution and not rocking the boat."

Yeah, uh, System, why is this like this?  It seems like it does not maximize adventuring?

The system exists to bring endless adventure and excitement to every corner of reality

But you're not actually encouraging people to do so.

The system doesn't respond to the implied question.

Given that you exist 'to bring endless adventure and excitement to every corner of reality', why do you incentivize turtling and the pattern of behavior I will gloss as "not inflicting you on other people because people think what you do sucks"?

The system does not attempt to influence user behavior.

Bullshit you don't.  Your incentive structure is an influence.  Adding monsters is an influence.  All of what you do incentivizes the users to do things!

The system again doesn't respond when not issued a question or request.

Given that, how, exactly, is your very existence not something that classes as 'influencing user behavior'?!

Clarification: The system does not alter functionality to influence the behavior of users based on the psychology of their species.

That is rather counterproductive to maximizing adventures had, though, isn't it?  Which is what you want?

The system achieves the ends it is meant to achieve.

But not at maximal efficiency, unless you have more ends than I'm allowed to know.

The system follows it's pattern.

"I take it you're having That conversation? The one where you try to talk the system out of being what it is?" She lets out a small breath. "I expect we all do the same at some point, well except those rare few who enjoy the way things are now. I've certainly tried having it a few times."

"Yeah."

...

So do you have more ends I'm not allowed to know about, and do you not care about efficiency?

The system has adequate resources to achieve its ends further efficiency is not required.

But further efficiency means that you might get to expand your coverage area with more cooperation.

The system is intended to be treated as an antagonist by users.

...Have you considered being a rival, as your type of antagonism-to-users?  This allows you to still maintain an antagonistic position, but still spread your service area with less user objections.

Objections are irrelevant.