Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Alhanelem]

Is there a reason we cant be on mounts indefinitely? I would like to AFK on my mount thnx

All I can imagine is the fact that under normal circumstances you're mostly invulnerable while mounted. FFXIV has no time limit but you also aren't immune to being attacked.

[Pixela]

Because it's a buff and all buffs have a duration.

[Alhanelem]

Because it's a buff and all buffs have a duration.

well just make the duration 99h59m59s. We already have the ambuscade seals which last for 48 hours.


While we're at it, make signet etc. last that long too.

[Uriah]

It's to prevent people from being pl'd on a mount. An account can follow a bot on a mount and never die. That's why you can't stay on a mount.

(you could just write a code to remount every hour)

[Alhanelem]

It's to prevent people from being pl'd on a mount. An account can follow a bot on a mount and never die. That's why you can't stay on a mount.

(you could just write a code to remount every hour)

I'm not sure that really has anything to do with it, for one it's really easy to circumvent as you noted, and second, it is probably a trivial matter to disable EXP gain while mounted. They would just do that if it really mattered.

[Uriah]

Spoken like you've never played XI before. lol

They do everything the least easy and reasonable way possible. Every time. Always.

[Alhanelem]

Spoken like you've never played XI before. lol

They do everything the least easy and reasonable way possible. Every time. Always.

Spoken like i've played FFXI for most of the last 20 years.
Easy? You think "Mounted buff = no EXP": is hard? there's already buffs that modify or prevent EXP gain.

Even SE wouldn't come up with some crazy convoluted way of doiing it when they ALREADY have a way to do it. Shouldn't even require any native code whatsoever. And yet, I don't see how the duration of a buff, which is just as easily changed, could possibly be the reason.

[Pixela]

A better question is why would you want to be mounted for more than an hour, when you can just remount.

If the argument is to avoid aggro and afk, well just find a spot without aggro monsters and stand there.

[Alhanelem]

A better question is why would you want to be mounted for more than an hour, when you can just remount.

If the argument is to avoid aggro and afk, well just find a spot without aggro monsters and stand there.

In FFXIV, where there are many more mounts and some are accomplishments to get, people like to show them off, it really isn't that unusual for people to be AFK on mounts. There's no real benefit to doing so otherwise.e In FFXI, all they relaly need to do is not allow any kind of point gain while mounted and there's no reason they can't remove the time limit. it's not really a big deal.

Granted, most mounts in FFXI come from campaigns, except for the personal chocobo, the one you get from unlocking the mount command, and fenrir, so there isn't really any noteworthy accomplishments to show off. But I always say "you do you..."

[Immortal]

Its the same idea as to why people like to use lockstyle. Just a little thing that adds to the game is all. I like to afk on my Iron Giant because he look cool, when I'm waiting outside an escha zone or something.