How about that new gardening mount?

Post your interest/hate here regarding a Rafflesia mount!

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/im...Rafflesia1.jpg

Come on, you know you wanna mount it.

Since it's a plant, it would make sense you could grow one.

Given that it's a plant born of allagan technology, perhaps you could farm coil for some rare plant clipping drop. I don't think it would be fun it if was easy to grow. Perhaps some cross breeding would be necessary (to make it more friendly and not devour you when you try to ride it). Given that some of the mandragoras are hard to cross breed, maybe you could need like some mandragora queens growing on either side or something, then it could crossbreed into a rafflesia mount seed.

Just a idea. If you like it, expand on it here. Put your spin on what a gardening mount would be like if it came to be. Maybe someone will see this post and pass it along to the creative team... :P

Where would you sit on that thing though...

No, and no. I rather have a Cid work on making me a motorcycle so I can get off these animals. Lol.

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Originally Posted by Neri

Where would you sit on that thing though...

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Have you seen "Little Shop of Horrors"?

It's it's mouth of course! :3
Maybe just your head and shoulders would be shown at the top :P Or, alternatively, it could carry you with it's tendrils...but that might be too creepy...

When I first did T6, I thought one of the tiny raffs you see on the floor in that arena would make an awesome minion, so I'd like a glowy raff minion too.

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Originally Posted by Neri

Where would you sit on that thing though...

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I've seen enough you know what to see where this is going...

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Originally Posted by Neri

Where would you sit on that thing though...

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Maybe you wouldn't sit on it?
It would Devour you when you "mount" it and Spit you when you dismount.
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Originally Posted by aerolol

Maybe you wouldn't sit on it?
It would Devour you when you "mount" it and Spit you when you dismount.
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See? He understands my thinking perfectly! :3

lol, I agree. This thing might be pretty funny as a mount. Maybe adding a mount action just like the magitek whereas you can bombarding something with slapping something with its tendrils...

A giantass mandragora. Make it happen, please.

In all seriousness, tho, making a gardening mount would imply making something untradable with gardening, which seems... Kinda impossible with the current system where multiple people in a Free Company can harvest crops. Unless they wanna drop that untradable-only mount rule that has been going so far.

Dem tentacles, doe...

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Originally Posted by Chubi

A giantass mandragora. Make it happen, please.

In all seriousness, tho, making a gardening mount would imply making something untradable with gardening, which seems... Kinda impossible with the current system where multiple people in a Free Company can harvest crops. Unless they wanna drop that untradable-only mount rule that has been going so far.

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Which is more of a reason for them to finally release something like a pot that you can place in your house/room and garden with!

I want the dreadnought as a mount. That guy has been in every coil, handing out hi fives like a boss. It is seriously my favorite normal enemy in the game. I want to ride that thing and have the option to give out those huge swinging hi fives to everyone I meet. They could even give him rocket boots to make him heavensward ready.

I would love a Rafflesia mount :D

Miqo'te and tentacles .. er .. I should stop my imagination..

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Originally Posted by PotatoTree

Which is more of a reason for them to finally release something like a pot that you can place in your house/room and garden with!

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Then it would be like a personal-housing-only feature? Cause that's the only way it could happen =/

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Originally Posted by Chubi

In all seriousness, tho, making a gardening mount would imply making something untradable with gardening, which seems... Kinda impossible with the current system where multiple people in a Free Company can harvest crops. Unless they wanna drop that untradable-only mount rule that has been going so far.

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Oh true, mounts cannot be traded. How about this: You grow like some item that is hard/rare to grow, it becomes a tradeable item "baby rafflesia hatchling" in which can be traded between players (but not market board), then you take that hatchling item to a NPC in a green house, and then several days later you come back and you get a achievement that grants the mount (or the npc has a quest for it with the reward)? I'm sure it could be made to work.

I think it should be more of a quest/task than some item to be sold. It's no fun to just buy it, the people with them should feel attached to it since they took part in growing it (like your chocobo or magitech story mount).

A Free Company could hold a raffle or just use it as a incentive for players to help their FC. Everyone can water it, fertilize it, but then they can decide who gets it. Maybe it should take up a whole gardening patch or something.

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Originally Posted by Cherie

quest for mounts!

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Something along those lines could work. Honestly, a mount as cool as that would need some work!
But maybe making it personal-housing-only would be... Idk, simpler? I'm saying as for gardening mounts in general. Cause then you could only do it in your own house, meaning only you can harvest it. That would require a different place to grow the mount, tho, like PotatoTree suggested above, as making a personal-housing-only SEED seems rather complicated... >_>

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Originally Posted by Kahnom

Miqo'te and tentacles .. er .. I should stop my imagination..

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The tentacles won't discriminate between races ;D

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Originally Posted by Chubi

Then it would be like a personal-housing-only feature? Cause that's the only way it could happen =/

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You can get a FC room and put a pot in there?

They could also make maybe community gardens or something, where you'd have a housing ward like area but it'll be a farm, and be able to rent a small plot for a price. They can add more instances if more people want to garden, less if less people are gardening, etc.

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Originally Posted by PotatoTree

You can get a FC room and put a pot in there?

They could also make maybe community gardens or something, where you'd have a housing ward like area but it'll be a farm, and be able to rent a small plot for a price. They can add more instances if more people want to garden, less if less people are gardening, etc.

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Or that. But it would need a filter regardless, so it can't be a FC house item, which seems to be the biggest issue... Maybe add private gardening to FC houses at some point, who knows.

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Originally Posted by Chubi

making a personal-housing-only SEED seems rather complicated... >_>

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True, but I think there should be atleast a little work involved. I mean, getting your first chocobo was a bit of a ordeal right?

You were just like level 15 and you had no gear pretty much and had to go farm fates with no sub job etc. The magitech mount, you had to finish the story. This one, a gardening mount, would be just a side quest though, just like the relic/zeta quest. The reason I went with the gardening motif is because, yes I know most of the land plots are full, so not everyone has a house, but most FC's do, so hence, it's a group effort (like the new airship building for fcs in expansion). I didn't mean for it to be too complicated though, just growing a new kind of plant, then turning it into a NPC or something to get the mount...etc But it's a very rare seed. If someone has done gardening, they know cross breeding those onions is time consuming (and well so is the relic farming). I just think it should be involved, but not nessisarily a "difficult" thing to do... That fits in right? It's not like you have to arm wrestle rafflesia to get one (you'd lose, you see those tendrils? too stronk).

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

The tentacles won't discriminate between races ;D

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I feel sorry for lalafells then :p

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Originally Posted by Cherie

True, but I think there should be atleast a little work involved. (...)

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I find this idea very possible, honestly. Like just a specific gardening item that would be required in a whole quest. This could be a great general idea for a gardening-related mount to happen, not necessarily Rafflesia if they don't wanna use that. Maybe the item could be useful for other things, too, so it's not straight-up a tradable to-be-mount? SE is keeping a violent effort in making mounts only obtainable by someone's effort/real money.

I don't really think this should be something you grow in a pot in your personal room though... What if it escaped and ate you while you were sleeping, before you finished taming it? :O

I'm quite sure most FC would be fine with stopping growing stuff in one of their garden boxes for just a few days to grow this special seed. Maybe have a farming drive for airship money for expac to have people try to "win" it...etc

I know SE likes to sell special mounts in mogstation, but they seem cool with having them be quest rewards and things you can farm for (remember the tank lion and bear?).

Also, the main driving idea behind this was based on something SE already did. When the 4 star crafts came out, they made them require drops from first coil. Maybe you have to farm 2nd and 3 coil to get the plant clipping(or some other item) to grow this plant mount? That would be a positive thing these last two months for people that want to finish the coil story but don't really feel confident to raid. If people are farming coil for things other than the armor/weapons, they are a little less picky who they take.

Right, by effort I mean farming and whatever else in-game you gotta do that's not gil to another player. The issue with making that item ONLY for that mount quest would kind of make it a tradable mount, even if it requires more work afterwards. So maybe an item that makes other stuff too (turn into furniture or something) would make it more reasonable in SE's eyes.

Ya I agree, I wouldn't want something like this to be exploited to be a "for money" item that you could just sell for gil to players.

SE is good at figuring this kind of thing out. I mean, like the relic quest for instance, you had to do quests to get the alexandrite right? You did probably have to buy the materia, but once you get your zeta relic, it's yours and you can't trade it.


That's why that perhaps the item should be locked to a player somehow that actually grew it. Maybe you guys can think up a way. I'd say go with that personal flowerpot in your personal room idea (that way the item could be untradeable once it finished growing and you just claim it), but I think that is less likely to happen anytime soon. It would require a ton of coding. Surely there is some way to grow it in the outside garden and have it lock itself to a player without letting them sell it (in such a way that the FC could choose what member got it). I'll give it more thought I guess. But I know you guys are smart, maybe you'll think of something first if you like this idea.

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Originally Posted by Cherie

Post your interest/hate here regarding a Rafflesia mount!

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/im...Rafflesia1.jpg

Come on, you know you wanna mount it.

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While I'm kinda against a mount that'd be limited to such a tiny sub-set of the player base . . . that is also a really cool idea?

Personally, would prefer the Malboro mount. With "Sprout" Breath that plants sprouts on players heads... think Pikmin or the Blue Mage Job emote from FFXI.