[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[JayvirDeforte]

I get the feeling that if there are more than just chocobo mounts, the game will lose the Final Fantasy feeling to it. Even just give us the opportunity to customize them and that will be more than enough

Chocobos only please!

[Frisque]

I still wouldn't mind a fluffy fluffy ewe I'm little! And chocos are too big

.......unless it's a BABY choco! Hmmmm that could be awesome. Or really really mean, LOL!

And multi-person transportation would be epic! Remember the Chocobo saddles from the Christma-star-whateveritwascalled event? The little bags were the PERFECT size to be lalafell side-cars!

[Rhianu]

I want to ride a mechanical robot chocobo created by the Garlean Empire!

http://www2.gol.com/users/ikkie/shoj...trichRobot.jpg

[Lionix]

3. Have them were you can summon them in battle were after extensive training can transform your current weapon,armor depending on which you've train giving a hp/mp and stats boost to your weapon or gear.

Hey, maybe not so much in this manner, specially the fighting part, but it made me think that raising a chocobo that will eventually give you some sort of charm (an accessory of God knows what piece, or something for that incredibly sad pouch slot) who's stats change depending on training. Or a simpler system would be to be able to swap chocobo colors/types somewhere and that directly affect the item corresponding to the chocobo. Notice how each method mentioned (starting from odintius) is increasingly boring, but easier to implement. Honestly I'd like something engaging to be implemented sometime this year. No offense.

Hey, could even be linked with the "Materia" system. Wink wink (read out loud).

4. Have another feature where they go gather item's or store gear item's from your adventures.

Are you insane? You must be because insanity and genius go hand in hand. And this is genius.
I'd LOVE to be able to send my chocobo to places to explore automatically (and offscreen), like the Behests in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, to gather some modest materials.

It would also be incredibly useful and practical, if we could implement it somehow as a messenger between you and your retainers! We could call our chocobo (whistling can be a skill people, stop with the items already) to send and receive 10 or so items from our retainers (or preferably no limit, just a direct window between you and the retainer as if you were just talking to it, because gear sets can get huge), just give it a cooldown, because the birdy's tired (like 30 minutes or something). It would also help with the farming a bit, specially the Disciples of the Land.

If it's weird for your bird to be tired after carrying your luggage to be called again but be ready for mounting instantly, then make it A messenger chocobo or chocobo service you can pay for (upkeep, weekly, much like Mog Lockers in XI or housing in other games) and A mount chocobo. The logic behind this could be mounting birds are stronger while messengers are smarter, if you are splitting. Hell I don't get paid to make up this stuff, I don't know.

Say you are in the middle of the Black Shroud. Started a party with people you just met in an Aetheryte camp pretty deep and you could use a specific role-- Oh damn, you left your gear in a retainer! -- Say you haven't been there. I hexa-dare you.

How do I always end up with a wall of text? This is why I don't post often.

[odintius]

Yea im open to different opinion's on how to use a chocobo in battle just like to see something different then just being mount's. Im open to different type of mount's etc though bring more uniqueness to the game.

[Rhianu]

I get the feeling that if there are more than just chocobo mounts, the game will lose the Final Fantasy feeling to it. Even just give us the opportunity to customize them and that will be more than enough

Chocobos only please!

In FFIV you could ride a dragon, in FFVI you could ride in a suit of Magitek Armor, and in FFX you could ride a shoopuff, yet all three games still completely felt like FINAL FANTASY games. In fact, they were among the most popular FF games in the entire series. Allowing the player to ride other things besides a chocobo does not make the game any less of a FINAL FANTASY game.

Wanting to keep the unique flavor of the games is fine, but at the same time you have to allow the franchise to grow and evolve, which means you have to be willing to do things that haven't been done before. If the franchise doesn't try new things, then it will never grow. If it never grows, then it will start to stagnate. If it stagnates, then it starts to die. You have to always keep trying new things and keep improving. After all, if you're not moving forward, then you're falling behind, and I don't think anyone want so see the FINAL FANTASY franchise fall behind.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I wouldn't mind seeing other forms of mounts really as long as they was well thought out, had some kind of lore behind it and just didn't look tacky and added on. I want my Roegadyn riding around on a big ol Dodo. Ahahahaha

[Feldt]

I can't even imagine how painful it'd be to ride on a Coblyn... lol

Because the idea is so lolish I'd imagine some people including myself would have took the Coblyn for the lulz xD

[Danniedeadboy]

I Would like Chocobo only mounts and if it came to be another mounts i'd like them to be story based or terrain based where only those mounts could be taken there because of the terrain

[Sweetheart]

While I understand reasons for more types of mounts in mmo, in FF mmo I couldn't care less for any other type than chocobos, that's probobly cos of Final Fantasy fetish ;D

Anyway my idea would be different races and types of chocobos, like for example:

a) Battle Chocobo = massive muscular more, deff but slower.

b) Race Chocobo = slim light, and fast.