>One step further. Just do away with the mechanic. It's
>silly.

Yeah, forcing rangers to spend a large chunk of their time in the wilds is counterproductive to interaction. Besides, it's not like they'd have any advantage in civilized, quite the opposite. What's next, mages needing to study 75% of the time in libraries or forget their spells? =)

(Side note edit: if this was done, wanderlust would need to be tweaked)