Let us use skateboards in this Dawntrail city

Solution 9 is very large. With so many open plazas and empty walkways, it can feel mundane to traverse, especially because players tend to congregate at the arcade and nowhere else, making the place feel deserted.

If we had mounts it would feel better to move around the city and players would naturally gravitate farther away from the teleport nodes.

But to keep with the environment's vibe, the only mounts available should be things like skateboards, rollerblades, skooters, and other typical modes of personal inner-city transportation.

there're even rails to grind on. that would be radical.

It's honestly a travesty that we can't use mounts in DT's cities. Tuliyollal has a giant road running through the middle of it. Is Yoshi stupid?

Just let us mount in every city thats not like ul'dah limsa and gridania they're so big

To be fair, if they allow us to use mounts in cities, the next thread created is going to be "Please ban mounts from cities" because there's immediately going to be a group of people filling every aetheryte plaza with Lunar Whale mounts.

Would love to have something to get around the cities faster though.

That's why I suggest limiting it to only certain mounts in S9, specifically things that wouldn't be out of place there and would really fit the vibe. In contrast, in somewhere like Tuliyollal you might be able to mount up on hippo carts, rickshaws, and so on.

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That's why I suggest limiting it to only certain mounts in S9, specifically things that wouldn't be out of place there and would really fit the vibe. In contrast, in somewhere like Tuliyollal you might be able to mount up on hippo carts, rickshaws, and so on.

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Good idea !
But would it be possible with the game “noodle code”?

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Originally Posted by Kaecilius

To be fair, if they allow us to use mounts in cities, the next thread created is going to be "Please ban mounts from cities" because there's immediately going to be a group of people filling every aetheryte plaza with Lunar Whale mounts.

Would love to have something to get around the cities faster though.

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We had mounts in the "endgame" hubs up until ShB, and the Eulmore floor that has the vendors is both fairly small and everything is roughly equidistant from the main aetheryte.

Let us mount in cities, but put in the dismount zones like on the Ninja Warrior towers indoors, and around major areas like the market boards. Let people show off their mounts without being a nuisance.

Tbf, I feel like being able to forcibly (as part of zoning) or optionally (as part of client-side gameplay customization) limit what one sees to zone-appropriate skins (for mounts, glams, or what have you) would be a huge boon in general...

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Tbf, I feel like being able to forcibly (as part of zoning) or optionally (as part of client-side gameplay customization) limit what one sees to zone-appropriate skins (for mounts, glams, or what have you) would be a huge boon in general...

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GW2 has a "generic model" toggle, so it's not unheard of even if it doesn't look good. Granted, it's more useful in that game because you can combine cosmetics to turn your character into a walking flashbang.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/d...ity_Models.jpg

The last time any mounts worked in a city was what, Rhagr's Reach? Wasn't an issue back then but it seems they don't like mounts in cities now.

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Originally Posted by Kaecilius

To be fair, if they allow us to use mounts in cities, the next thread created is going to be "Please ban mounts from cities" because there's immediately going to be a group of people filling every aetheryte plaza with Lunar Whale mounts.

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I dunno about that; we don't see people doing that in Mor Dhona, Idyllshire or Rhalgr's Reach.

Okay but would the G'raha skateboard be too hard to unlock?

They let us use skateboards but you immediately get chased by outrunner drones that knock you off if they catch you. These drones will gradually gain movement speed the longer you manage to elude them. Once you lose your skateboard you have to rent another in the back alley you got it from.

Why don't we have a skateboard mount yet? Or like a hoverboard.

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Originally Posted by Kaecilius

To be fair, if they allow us to use mounts in cities, the next thread created is going to be "Please ban mounts from cities" because there's immediately going to be a group of people filling every aetheryte plaza with Lunar Whale mounts.

Would love to have something to get around the cities faster though.

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They could ban the big mounts, or add dismounting aura's around NPC's like wow does maybe

There is a "hoofing it" debuff they use in island sanctuary which they could get a lot more use out of
Not just for this idea, but it'd be a start if they'd like to have certain areas in cities unable to be mounted in
Mostly inside buildings or other residential areas where it wouldn't make sense to drive something through

After playing through patch 7.2's story, the addition of 'jog' makes traversing Solution 9's large empty spaces a little more bearable if only by virtue of it taking less time. That said, being able to rollerblade or skate around the city would be a hell of a lot cooler.

I want more NPC's in the cities so that they don't feel barren. Maybe have a system where the less players there are, the more random NPC's spawn to fill up the cities to make them look alive.

What? Skateboards? Come on i wait for the golden saucer snowboarding since ARR when Yoshi-P an ounce it in the run time of ARR. We will never get that!

What we also never get!

• Hover bike races in S9, with tuning, sponsorship and graffiti system for our race suit and bike!
• A Soul hunt in S9 to earn soul coins! Where we go out and hunt souls for S9!
• Many many stores in S9 where we can spend the nice soul coins to get stuff, like glamour options, stuff for housing and so much more!
• Also we get no new apartment system in S9 and a rework of the outdated housing system. Where we can buy new rooms and add them like we want to build the apartment of our dreams!
• Also we will not get a good coloration system where we can color every part separately or we can simply make parts invisible! Also with new electrope glare system. Also no glare system for hair, eyes and tattoos!
• Oh and we get no tattoo system! Even it is only a new layer on a model!
• and many more things that would make sense to add in S9!

Only segways should be allowed.

Sadly I doubt they will do something like an actual skateboard.
I feel like if they'd release it, it'd be mount-like. Where we "stand on the board" but it is a "hoverboard" because Eorzea is like year 5000 from our time and technologically speed-running into the future. But the real reason why I think this would be their only option is: 1 they already have hover-board like mounts, so they just need to change esthetics and 2. I lost my hopes they want to put effort into truly new animations that require unique movements (walking/running/etc) type for just a mount. Not to mention they'd have to negatie the size of the board along with the hovering height for lalafell/roegadyn etc... They don't mind for static sitting/standing positions, but they seem too busy with "other things" really for me to truly believe they'd want to be bothered. But I do like the idea very much. Unfortunately this reality hits me nowadays "that'd be too much work in their field".