Please Increase Ground Mount Speed

Please. If you won't just implement it for free, perhaps give it as a passive bonus after you've hit 50 on one Job.

why? It's the exact same speed it was before. It hasn't gotten slower. The only reason it feels like that is because flying mounts are faster. But they are faster bc the new areas are so big. I see no reason to increase speed on ground mounts

For the same reason to nerf dungeons and remove restrictions on things like tomes. Once content is demoted, it improves playebase throughput and morale to reduce restrictions.

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Originally Posted by heynowjose

Why?

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Because it'd be nice.

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Originally Posted by heynowjose

why? It's the exact same speed it was before. It hasn't gotten slower. The only reason it feels like that is because flying mounts are faster. But they are faster bc the new areas are so big. I see no reason to increase speed on ground mounts

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so people would use them that's a pretty big reason.

Would sure make it less painful getting around those humongous new zones BEFORE you manage to get all the aether currents. Plus those who don't have flying yet all lose out on many hunts and FATES.

This was asked in a producer interview and they said they did not have plans to make them faster but they are considering making flying faster. If they would just make the old zones flyable, the problem would be solved. And yes, I understand it would take a lot of work to do that. Just wishful thinking.

^they said they'd consider it with request.

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

This was asked in a producer interview and they said they did not have plans to make them faster but they are considering making flying faster. If they would just make the old zones flyable, the problem would be solved. And yes, I understand it would take a lot of work to do that. Just wishful thinking.

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Yeah, they would probably have to combine some zones like most of the la nosceas that circle WP. I've fell through the map in outer ln and all of upper ln is there, just in lower textures

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Originally Posted by Saggo

For the same reason to nerf dungeons and remove restrictions on things like tomes. Once content is demoted, it improves playebase throughput and morale to reduce restrictions.

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You can ride in every zone. Or do you mean the city zones with the restrictions?

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

so people would use them that's a pretty big reason.

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Go to North Thanalan. Many people still use them

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

so people would use them that's a pretty big reason.

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I use ground-based mounts in the old areas simply because the flying mounts look silly walking.

Sitting on Twintania while she waddles around makes me giggle almost nonstop. xD

If someone doesn't want faster mounts they could always just choose to move more slowly, or pause every few seconds, to ensure they arrive at the same time as they would have before.

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Originally Posted by Buff_Archer

If someone doesn't want faster mounts they could always just choose to move more slowly, or pause every few seconds, to ensure they arrive at the same time as they would have before.

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Demand first bigger 2.0 zones, then we can talk about faster ground mounts. There is no use for faster ground mounts if the maps are not big enough for them.

Why the hell would I use a ground mount in a Fly zone? ARR areas aren't that big and to use a ground mount in a HS area, you must like the heavy annoyance...

People just look for stuff to nitpick jeez.

Move speed is fine for ground mounts, this wasn't an issue in ARR and flying mounts more than make up for it in the new areas.

Also at the person saying restrictions to be removed? Since when is being able to move faster a restriction?
Personally I'd think it would be silly and stupid to see people zipping around at super fast speeds in the old areas.

it would be nice but part of the reason everyone likes flying/flying mounts is cause they're so much faster
people still use ground mounts in areas that don't have aether currents

Why not just implement an instant TP to wherever you right-click on the map?

Yoshi did say they would increase ground mounts speed, several months ago. But at some point he did a 180 on that statement, but he never really mentioned his own change of heart. Just pretended he never said it I guess. I'd appreciate a little bit of a increase. I mean if they are going to increase flying mounts, you should also increase ground mounts because.. well flying mounts don't exactly need the increase anymore then ground. You can get around pretty quickly in the sky.

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Originally Posted by Felis

You can ride in every zone. Or do you mean the city zones with the restrictions?

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Speed limits as a restriction and mounts have a strict speed limit.

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Originally Posted by Yhoiryo

Also at the person saying restrictions to be removed? Since when is being able to move faster a restriction?
Personally I'd think it would be silly and stupid to see people zipping around at super fast speeds in the old areas.

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Because I said reduce, not remove? It's entirely possible to do that without zipping around at super fast speeds, whatever that means to you.

So, does this mean people are done with wanting new ground mounts and from this point on all we should get are flying mounts?

Because if there's no incentive to use them in the new (active) zones....

I'd honestly like to see this come about mostly because I have a bit of a pet peeve with people using particular flying mounts that look ridiculous acting as ground mounts, haha. I honestly can't wait for the Twintania hype to die down - assuming it ever does - for that reason. I use my chocobo on my main but I figuratively sigh every time I see a Twintania running around on the ground!

But yes, on a more serious note, I'd like to see ground mounts kept relevant in new areas beyond the phase where you are still collecting currents. Although, even having said that, I guess most people will still stick to the faster option of flying even if ground speed were exaggerated to the point that it almost matched it.

Maybe it would work if they implemented a system where bad weather negatively affected flight speed or something quirky like that? It'll never happen but it sounds like a cute detail to me.

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Originally Posted by Knahli

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People would most likely still be flying even if ground was almost as fast. It's just always faster to fly over stuff in a straight line instead of going around.

I do like the idea of how weather would effect flying.

can we just retcon flying abilities onto them? coeurls can use magnetisms, the demon eyeballs can actually fly, the bombs are bombs, let cid put a jetpack on our mechs, give the behemoth sky walk for all I care.

I don't care either way...

...so long as, if it is done, mount speed remains as it is now in PvP.

Mount speeds should never outspeed Sprint in PvP. The speed balance as it stands now is perfect.

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Originally Posted by heynowjose

why? It's the exact same speed it was before. It hasn't gotten slower. The only reason it feels like that is because flying mounts are faster. But they are faster bc the new areas are so big. I see no reason to increase speed on ground mounts

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As someone new to the game it makes sense to me to make ground mounts faster than a sprinting person

or at least have them keep their current speed but then allow them to sprint like we can at something like 1.5-2x speed.


edit: not talking about PvP balance @above because I havn't done pvp.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

People would most likely still be flying even if ground was almost as fast. It's just always faster to fly over stuff in a straight line instead of going around.

I do like the idea of how weather would effect flying.

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I admitted as much myself, haha ; I doubt you could really get around it even with a random idea such as mine unless you were basically moving in straight lines on the ground too. Regardless, even had they the time and resources to actually give this a modicum of priority, I'm sure that giving people incentive to return to ground mounts wouldn't be of great interest to them.

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Originally Posted by OJ191

As someone new to the game it makes sense to me to make ground mounts faster than a sprinting person

or at least have them keep their current speed but then allow them to sprint like we can at something like 1.5-2x speed.


edit: not talking about PvP balance @above because I havn't done pvp.

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Hmm, last time I remember, I think the mount is still faster than a person sprinting? Just a tad faster though.

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Originally Posted by Saggo

Speed limits as a restriction and mounts have a strict speed limit.

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walking, running and sprint have also a speed limit. And? Sprint have even a time limit. And don't forget, walking and running are older than ground mounts.

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Originally Posted by OJ191

As someone new to the game it makes sense to me to make ground mounts faster than a sprinting person

or at least have them keep their current speed but then allow them to sprint like we can at something like 1.5-2x speed.

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Oh no, experience the Heavy that has blighted us since 2.0!

Also sprint works better under heavy then just riding the mount. But at the same time mounts are indeed faster than sprint.

I am still failing to see any reason behind this request.
In HW we have flying, ARR zones are so small that they really don't need this and PvP seems to be fine with this speed too.
I wouldn't mess with things that don't need it.

Or make it so you can slap your mount to go faster. Doing this with good timing will make you go the fastest; that way you can at least be doing something when you're running somewhere. I loved slapping the balls outta my horse in Zelda.

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Originally Posted by Myric

Yeah, they would probably have to combine some zones like most of the la nosceas that circle WP. I've fell through the map in outer ln and all of upper ln is there, just in lower textures

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Once they abandon PS3 support, hopefully with 4.0, things like merging zones and introducing greater detail will become much easier.

I can't wait!

Ground speed is slow as hell

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Originally Posted by Nephera

Ground speed is slow as hell

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Turn off walking mode and don't get hit in your back

A mounted sprint would be sexy.

have it this way flying mounts are faster flying and slow on the land and land mounts are faster on the land makes them a fair use on all the maps :D

Need faster flying mount!
seriously the Sea of Cloud gatheing node is near the other end of the map, it takes 45 ET mins! to get there.