Mounts Should Be Allowed in Cities

I never understood why this was never incorporated into the game.

Have you seen how a pvp match looks at the start? Just imagine that except everywhere in the cities. Would be awful.

No.
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How about just gold mounts?

I am going to afk on my delubrum reginae savage mount and take up the entire street.

I do think we need more spaces to show off mounts, but cities are not designed with players being on mounts in mind. All the more reason to expand, and improve over world gameplay.

I'd like to see a return of hub towns that allow for mounts. It was always fun lining up on the stupid glowy birds in idyllshire.

Maybe like one hub that allows mounts in the new expac, like Rhalgar'a and Idyllshire. I don't want Limsa and other cities to be choked up with Lunar Whales and get in the way of vendors and npcs.

As much as I think it would be nice, I'm going to have to say no to mounts in cities. If they would add a mount up spot at the stables where the chocobo rider is located, that would be acceptable but not elsewhere in the city.

Because the majority of the mounts in game are exponentially larger than those little electric scooters you rent off your phone every time you have to leave your house... >.>

I'd just be happy for permanent sprint when not in combat option.

Ohh, Mao thinkings is not good idea at ALL for mounts to be allowed in major cities. Mao can just see all the griefings that would be done.

How about a special mount only for cities: Roller Skates!?

Hell no. If you think the current multiboxing AFKers are annoying imagine them all on Lunar Whales.

Agreed but only in areas that are outside. That's how it works in island sanctuary so i don't see why they couldn't do that in at least a few areas of the cities.

Some of the cities just are not designed for it and the last thing we need is mounted players gathered at the marketboards.

We already have a few end game cities where we can mount up so the player community would just need to agree on which to use if you want a place to show off. Mor Dhona would be a fairly good choice since players are frequently going in and out of the Rising Stones for MSQ. Idyllshire would be another good choice being more open and traffic going in and out for custom deliveries, Wondrous Tails and Faux Hollows.

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Originally Posted by chaotix69

I never understood why this was never incorporated into the game.

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I don't know man, those ledges in Limsa will be crowded more than ever with people mounting up and afking.

I don't want people to see my chocobo. I keep it secret.

They could make certain areas no-mount like Island Sanctuary, although visually it would still be wild. Like even if you locked off every market board and indoor space, which would be annoying to mount and unmount.. there are a lot of spaces that just would turn into walls of nonsense. Exiting Uldah atheryte would make you feel like it was a locked off room lol.

I like the idea of more mount hub spaces though. Also, I think all no-mount cities should just have toggle sprint. Turn it on, turn it off, your choice. Infinite duration. If you want to gameify it, associate it will the neighbor region mount speed unlocks (such that if the region has max mount speed then the cities to that region have infinite sprint, like thanalan means Uldah).

An aside but on the topic of hubs, it would be cool to see more in-zone hubs like Mor Dhona- where there is content in the hub space itself.

The old cities are just way too small and confined for even smaller mounts in large numbers, never mind all of the later giant mounts. Allowing mounts would require redesigning the maps, and that just ain't happening on this team's development budget.

Newer cities could be designed for it, but then again, the Crystarium has plenty of wide-open space and still doesn't allow it, so.....

Absolutely not.

Instead of mounts. Just make sprint like it is for PvP. It stays on.
and if people complain about.. "WHAT ABOUT THE EUREKA BOOTS" or whatever they are...
Just make them increase the speed by a bit...
That's my two cents.

Again, Roller Skates! Give you the speed of a mount, without blocking anything.

Imagine people mounting their largest mounts and form a wall? lmao

Just put a dismount aura on usefull NPC and then sure why not.

Thats like "we need more cars in our cities!" xD

Yes we need some show off area, i kinda miss the old HW times and since they added the debuff that forces you off your mounts i dont see why there arent some areas you can pose or use em. Id love to fly from Eulmore's balcony...

Just the basic chocobo should be allowed its not an oversize mount and there is already chocobos in some cities plus since you can customize it you can make it like you want and match it with your character

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Imagine people mounting their largest mounts and form a wall? lmao

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People already do that with hunts. I've seen many walls of different mounts.
The worst that would come from this is the bloody sun. When the Firebirds just stack on each other.

I wouldn't mind seeing future city's adding usage of mounts though. Just put NPCs in buildings and it's no problem.

this is an idea I cannot get behind.

so.. no.

we already see people being a pain with hordes of the same copy/paste characters, or the dead laying about in places like Ul'dah just because they can. This would not be a needed feature.

No, it can already be an issue clicking on NPCs in certain populated areas, don't let people drop huge mounts there to block them as well.

I would really hate this.

Ever play WoW? People will grief with their mounts left and right.

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Originally Posted by LittleImp

I'd like to see a return of hub towns that allow for mounts. It was always fun lining up on the stupid glowy birds in idyllshire.

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This! Idyllshire was well designed with an outdoor area big enough for mounts and an indoor area with vendors. Island Sanctuary has that debuff system for dismounting people they could utilize in town design.

yes buddy don't hold your breath waiting for this.

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Originally Posted by chaotix69

I never understood why this was never incorporated into the game.

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No thanks, with all the show-off clowns afk on NPCs that noobs don't know how to select.

Cities with mounts are boring.

I honestly didn’t consider the possibility of NPCs being blocked by mounts. I could see why this would be problematic now. However, we do need hub areas that we all gather to again, like Mor Dohna or Idyllshire. Those were great. I loved when the tomestone vendors weren’t located in major cities.

Vehemently opposed.

Many mounts are large and get frustrating with blocking camera view even just trying to look around, nevermind at specific people or things i want to see.
Interaction points and NPCs would end up blocked and be difficult to click on.
The bobbing up and down is distracting (or nauseating depending on how close they are).
The light effects on some of them are difficult for those of us prone to migraine or with other photo-sensitive health issues.
Adding even more particle effects in player-dense areas also gives some of our computers a harder time and creates more lag.

No.

They should let you mount in the new large cities like Old Sharlayan and in the open areas of Radz, but yeah old cities like Limsa it would never ever work.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

I would really hate this.

Ever play WoW? People will grief with their mounts left and right.

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I play WoW quite a bit. Blizzard has started making you auto dismount if you’re near an important NPC or inside. And you can always just click through other players.

No I dont think they should. However I do think Sprint outside of combat should have its cooldown reduced to either 30 or 20s.

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Originally Posted by Derio

No I dont think they should. However I do think Sprint outside of combat should have its cooldown reduced to either 30 or 20s.

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or just toggable like in PvP