Let us ride our chocobos in cities.

I'm tired of walking.

Please use the aetherytes. Cities are busy enough considering how tiny the areas are, given that most of the main cities are already sub-divided into 2 zones. I'm already exhausted with areas like Idyllshire and Rhalgr's Reach having chocobo access, and they may work well there, but I don't think they're appropriate for the main cities.

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

I'm tired of walking.

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That would be nice. I mostly want them to give me a favorites page for flying and one for walking so I can choose which one is for what. I hate it when it picks some giant dragon that blocks my vision when I'm in a walking zone, or an elephant when I need to fly. Awkward.

Oh boy. That would lead to mount trolling lol

I wish that the whole "Sprint gets bumped up to 30 seconds" thing from those Anemos boots thing was a default. Or at least buff Sprint out of combat so it's easier to get around.

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Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams

Oh boy. That would lead to mount trolling lol

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If they made it so you couldn't ride in buildings and getting too close to quest givers or vendors removes the mount then most of the trolling would be pretty harmless

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Please use the aetherytes. Cities are busy enough considering how tiny the areas are, given that most of the main cities are already sub-divided into 2 zones. I'm already exhausted with areas like Idyllshire and Rhalgr's Reach having chocobo access, and they may work well there, but I don't think they're appropriate for the main cities.

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I think if graphic bloat is a problem, even just visually, minions and half the cities' non-quest NPCs should get disabled. Personally I think the mount restriction could be reexamined on a city by city basis.. many of them seem perfectly large enough for people to use mounts.

However, at the very least, the "sprint" ability could be allowed without duration/cd within anywhere designated as sanctuary.

If we can ride our Chocobos, then people will demand all mounts, then flying mounts, and next thing you know BOOM, crashes left and right because everyone would abuse it.
Plus the amount of trolling that could take place...just not a good idea at all.

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Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams

Oh boy. That would lead to mount trolling lol

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that's why i said chocobos

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

that's why i said chocobos

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Even if it’s a chocobo, you can still easily troll someone with it

one word: Guano.

I'd be happy if they just made sprint permanent in towns.

There was a pair of boots that gave infinite sprint in in towns; but they were a 1.0 CE item. We all remember what happened the last time the devs opted to bring a 1.x item back....

Though a new item with the same effect would be nice and extend it to housing wards.

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

There was a pair of boots that gave infinite sprint in in towns; but they were a 1.0 CE item. We all remember what happened the last time the devs opted to bring a 1.x item back....

Though a new item with the same effect would be nice and extend it to housing wards.

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We already got a new item with the same effect: The Strider Boots


I have to explain a bit I guess. The Hermes Shoes, the 1.0 item, and the new Strider Boots (wich drop in Eureka Anemos) both extend the Sprint duration by 10 seconds.

The original Sprint duration is 20 seconds, so with the boots you are at 30 seconds. Sprint used to have a 30 second recast, wich meant with the Hermes Shoes you could activate Sprint again in the moment it was dropping off, making Sprint infinite. But when they removed the TP cost from Sprint they also doubled the recast to 60 seconds. Since then the Hermes Shoes don't offer the infinite sprint anymore.

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Originally Posted by Raltar

I'd be happy if they just made sprint permanent in towns.

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I would like this as well, or just have sprint turned ON when you get in a town, and keep it ON, eliminate the need to click the button.

Imagine all the behemoths blocking everything. Basically what we need is Sprint having no cooldown or lasting indefinitely in towns.

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Originally Posted by Tint

We already got a new item with the same effect: The Strider Boots


I have to explain a bit I guess. The Hermes Shoes, the 1.0 item, and the new Strider Boots (wich drop in Eureka Anemos) both extend the Sprint duration by 10 seconds.

The original Sprint duration is 20 seconds, so with the boots you are at 30 seconds. Sprint used to have a 30 second recast, wich meant with the Hermes Shoes you could activate Sprint again in the moment it was dropping off, making Sprint infinite. But when they removed the TP cost from Sprint they also doubled the recast to 60 seconds. Since then the Hermes Shoes don't offer the infinite sprint anymore.

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Also keep in mind in order to use this effect you have to equip the boots as well. Unless you want to make a specific loadout just for 10 seconds extra of sprint or constantly equipping/removing the boots, you really aren't missing much.

I got it from the NM that drops it in Anemos, used it exactly one time, and just put it in my retainers inventory.

I agree. It makes no sense to ban it.

At least as someone else sugested, lower the CD of sprint. 30 second or even 45 seconds would help out.

Restrict it to Company Chocobos to reduce congestion, and I'm all for it. Nobody really wants to see whales and cars clogging up the Quicksand.

Please no. Towns are already busy looking enough with all the players already moving around. Adding mounts will just further add to this. You can practically teleport to a stones throw of all your destinations anyways.

I think for the open space towns having them is cool, seemed to work well for Idyllshire and Mor Dhona, but I think it would be weird for some cities. Muh Immursien. All that stinky birb pooping on everything. Bring your chocobo right into the Culinarian den~! lol.

I like the idea of sprint lasting longer, maybe even being turned into a toggle while in town (permanent on/off). Kind of kills those boots though.

Sort of an aside but I think traversing the town would be more fluid if you could also use the aetheryte system via the map so long as you were close to an aetheryte. Within X distance, receive some sort of aetheryte sync buff, allows you to open your map and click a mini aetheryte without interacting with the crystal- helpful when you can't remember the name of the place you're trying to go to lol and it would reduce menu clicks then.

Also sort of a black magic illusion but I could see allowing players to use their mount... client side. You can have your mount follow you into town and even ride it, but to other people you'll just be running very fast. That way it could feel immersive to you, able to bring your horse in for water sort of experience, while at the same time you're not shifting through a sea of fat chocobos and behemoths trying to peer over the wall of cars to talk to the event npc. Downside still though that you'd go through new areas faster (and most strangers around you would be running at mach speed), I think there is something to be said about breathing in the stuff slowly at first (which is why I like we have to walk around in new zones, but then we get flying because then "I don't have time for that" lol).

Edit: actually just thought pillion mounts with the black magic idea would be hilarious.. Maybe we not do that. lol. Although company chocobo client side only could still work (or turn off pillion while in town). But that's so many restrictions now. 9 layers of misdirection.. xD. Infinite sprint may be the best fast movement option (toggle in town).

Although of course designing new open areas is an option too, so we get a mix of both :).

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Originally Posted by savageink

That would be nice. I mostly want them to give me a favorites page for flying and one for walking so I can choose which one is for what. I hate it when it picks some giant dragon that blocks my vision when I'm in a walking zone, or an elephant when I need to fly. Awkward.

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And that considering Rhalgr's Reach is basicly a mid-sized field with some NPCs on the sides filled with a whole bunch of nothing.

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

Let us ride our chocobos in cities.

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Just what we'd need, a giant mount parked on all the summoning bells.

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

I'm tired of walking.

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I can punt you where you need to go instead
Just sayin

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Originally Posted by Nemmar

I agree. It makes no sense to ban it.

At least as someone else sugested, lower the CD of sprint. 30 second or even 45 seconds would help out.

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Chocobo are skittish in cities. There's a lore reason for it. So yes, it does make sense to not have it.

Where will all these threads lead? Next thing you know Nanamo is going to burn down Gridania and Limsa will seek the aid of a fleet of Garlean Airships and we’ll all be told we’ve got phones so it’s cool...

Like... can we NOT copy every bad idea from WoW into here?

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

I'm tired of walking.

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Leave my walking alone and stop being so lazy. I don't know if this is a troll thread but really....

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

I'm tired of walking.

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This is not WoW.

I would rather they just allow unlimited sprint in cities. It would have virtually no effect on gameplay since you never fight anything in cities. (When you do, it always seems to be in separate, instanced area that just looks like the city in question.)

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Originally Posted by TheLittlestLala

I'm tired of walking.

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No thank you. I don't want to have to try and interact with an NPC around chocobo butts.

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Originally Posted by savageink

If they made it so you couldn't ride in buildings and getting too close to quest givers or vendors removes the mount then most of the trolling would be pretty harmless

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That sounds like more effort than it's worth. You'd have to set up additional parameters, and there's the fact that some mounts are rather massive (Ixion for Roe males) so that would have to be kind of wide, meaning you might not notice an NPC and be demounted when you didn't want to be. We don't actually need mounts in the main city states with the warp crystals everywhere.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...lFTkSuQmCC.png

He huge.

Rather have infinite sprint, restricted to cities only.

I would much rather have flying in the housing district.

Adding flying in any of the pre-Heavensward maps would basically require the maps to be redone from scratch. They're not gonna devote that much time and payroll to it for a minimal benefit.

Maybe a better solution would be for Sprint to have no recast in cities.

Or they could put an item in GCs that give extra sprint or a movement boost in town. Since they already have some parameters in the game from boots. A person can only buy so many ventures.

There are Aetherytes 10 seconds from any point you want to go in the city. Adding mount kerfuffle would be unnecessary extra work and graphic clutter.

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Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams

Even if it’s a chocobo, you can still easily troll someone with it

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Ah yes, the Eorzean Nimble Warrior Challenge...

What I got from this thread: Gotta go fast

Increase for sprint in all cities could be good but no mounts. You can mount in the reach and idyllshire too.