Design a mount contest

With the success of the tank gear and hairstyle contests and all of the awesome outfits and hairstyles that we got to see the community design, I feel like we can expand upon this idea with mounts.

I'd love to see what weird and wonderful mounts the community can come up with, organic, mechanical, aetherial, both flying and ground. I think this would be a really fun community event.

Sounds neato. :3 I probably wouldn't enter since I don't ever win...but nice idea nonetheless. :D

Tonberry hot air balloon mount please.

I know I have an idea I'd love to see but my drawing skills leave much to be desired. Something like a mechanical Yarzon spider mount that (without the spinning person) the legs all extend out in a helicopter fashion for flight :3

Somebody please design a mount like this:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...a761ac7378.jpg

But pulled by Lalafells.

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Originally Posted by Lilseph

Somebody please design a mount like this:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...a761ac7378.jpg

But pulled by Lalafells.

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If the lead lala had a red nose and could fly I would use this exclusively

Don't want to be the negative Nancy, but mounts are a lot different then just making hair dues or armor. What ever idea you had of a existing NPC in this game has probably already been thought of as a mount, and creating a mount just seems like a hell of a lot of work than making armor. It is an entirely new model with animation, particles, and sound.

I'd join in on this contest if they did it... But I never win anything they put up as a contest. :P

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Originally Posted by Reaperking386

Don't want to be the negative Nancy, but mounts are a lot different then just making hair dues or armor. What ever idea you had of a existing NPC in this game has probably already been thought of as a mount, and creating a mount just seem like a hell of a lot of work then making armor. It is an entirely new model with animation, particles, and sound.

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There would naturally be rules. Size restrictions, speed restrictions, function restrictions etc. And the final mount would be judged not only on coolness, but also on viability (like I imagine the other contests were).

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Something like a mechanical Yarzon spider mount that (without the spinning person) the legs all extend out in a helicopter fashion for flight :3

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you mean something like a cross between these two?

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130629140319 http://www.lifesuccessfully.com/uplo...31593_orig.jpg

Sounds cool! Also reminds me that I really want this as a mount (though I'm never getting it)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sVzUdYIZkUM/hqdefault.jpg

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

you mean something like a cross between these two?

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130629140319 http://www.lifesuccessfully.com/uplo...31593_orig.jpg

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Yup, basically.

A crescent moon mount would be cool:

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151204184955

Not in the flamboyant anime style though, but a more elegant FFXIV one.

I also like two seater mounts, would like a lot more than the wedding chocobo/mogstation moogle/mentor pegasus.

A long and sinuous dragon mount would be nice too, I like leviathan's shape:

http://www.pcgamesn.com/sites/defaul...1394041413.png

A mount where some guy runs you around on his shoulders would be pretty funny too.

There's also the idea of an aztec style stone mount:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...91fe747bcf.jpg

I rather like the idea of being driven around in a carriage like former idea showed.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tale-ffxiv/w...0b4d9a3c58.jpg

I didnt make this but is really needs to be thing

Been begging for an Aldgoat mount since 1.0 :x

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4...014_221720.png

Just a matter of time :)
https://jcphotog.files.wordpress.com...23_0442561.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WA8Q9PZiSY

Or if you like a group mount:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dIyPTt55Mg8/maxresdefault.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZP0crHJvs

As the animations already exist for all races, why we have yet to get an aura/ wings to fly under our own power is abit odd. It could help incentive end game content, by adding a mount that can be tied to elemental/ thematic aura/ wings of corresponding content. When not in flying zones it would let you hover in air a few feet/ inches.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-cT7SUkbCn0/mqdefault.jpg

https://rr.img.naver.jp/mig?src=http...ormat=jpg&op=r

Secondly a team like set up for more than one passenger.

http://orcz.com/images/thumb/f/f9/Ff...bocarriage.jpg

http://cdn3-www.craveonline.com/asse...v_wedding2.jpg

I think designing a mount contest would be really cool to see. As someone with no artistic ability, I would really enjoy just seeing what creative things people could come up with. I quite enjoyed the tank armor contest and seeing the amount of creativity all of the sets got, I can't even imagine what people would come up with for ground and/or flying mounts.

I'd like a mount that isn't gigantic. Everything special always has to be so huge. :/

http://i.imgur.com/Z1DfGqI.jpg

Want FF King Behemoth ;( http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...693af3501c.jpg

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Originally Posted by Alacran

(..) why we have yet to get an aura/ wings to fly under our own power (..)

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Since 1.x before Alpha when they said we will get 4 start towns and ishgard is connected to dragons, i hoped to play as Gria!

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/.../IntroGria.jpg

Then when we got "Au Ra" and it was said it will be a dragon like race, i hoped we finally get them, but without wings, its not the same!
Still, now again that discussion with the wings (i fully support) that is rising the flames of HOPE to build gria with stylegear...