I like the idea or having a Port/Gate you can go to and get to a different shard. Same as DAOC (I played from start untill 6 months ago)
The only thing I would do it put a timer on jumping around Shard to Shard. Maybe have a 30 minute cooldown timer. I would want this mainly bc people porting around Spawn to Spawn trying to gank people. If they had to wait 30 minutes before porting to the next server it would be cool.
Also this would allow Larger groups to get together for a larger raid.
