[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[Chezen]

Just an idea, don't know how popular it will be, but just like you have RL mounts that might be better at different tasks, you could have mounts that specialize in things. Like one that is better for carrying stuff, one that is swift (chocobo preferably), one that would go longer without feeding it (assuming they introduced a feeding mini-game) etc, etc.

It would be cool to see mounts brought to a new level than has been traditional in mmos.

Something they did have in a previous mmo, was mounts that added to your stats, if they were to introduce mounted combat.

[Mallicia]

chocobo only please, but that come in a vast variety of colours, shape, and gender. with armour personification and statistic.

in clear, a pet, trainable that can be use as a month and that can fight at your side when soloing. who have ability like choco cure, choco attack, choco meteor, choco flame, choco dash. A true trusty familiar that you need to feed and grow who can develop friendship and hatred. something that has never been seen. that improvement.

so far we only saw standard chocobos in different colours.
why not created more kind of chocobos like more resistant one with heavy duvet or faster one with big paw and strong leg, flaying one(or jumping), hell why not. ...etc.... there just ides.

We all want our Chicken !

[Laughlyn]

I wanna see mounts as...

Chocobos
Coblyns <3 !!
Dodo's
Hogs
Raptors
Sheeps - Just for the fun of it lol ( i can imagine myself bounching around all over coerthas with mr Fluffy )
Coerl's - If anything screaming Mount besidess Chcocobo its these kittehs!
MagiTek Armor (im thinking something like FF VI)
Aldgoats - Well they looks like a natural mount, but they seems clumpsy.
Miteling - They're small, but im sure SE can find a medium sized one in their Goobie Bag. (slap a lantern on it's tail / stinger)

Other suggestions:

Drake - Medium Sized kindred or something
Wolf / hound (dont really want it to be wolf so i can be / feel like WoW ripoff)
Shadow Creepers - The hounds that pops up in the bike chase in the FF7 AC movie.
Moombas - They kinda look cool.
Manticore - Thinking of a medium sized FFXI manticore.
Salamander - a medium sized FFXIV salamander. (kinda slippery but wth...lol)

anywayz, i wish there were more unique looking monsters to choose from.

[Elexia]

The statement "please continue to let us know what you want to see in the future!" does not imply they don't have something in the pipeline already. It just means they don't plan to stop with the current set of changes.

When it comes to SE, FFXIV and FFXI for some reason people decide to assume and read into the worst connotation possible yet when other companies say the same line they're creaming themselves to sleep.

[Duelle]

When it comes to SE, FFXIV and FFXI for some reason people decide to assume and read into the worst connotation possible yet when other companies say the same line they're creaming themselves to sleep.

It's not people's fault that SE has conditioned them to expect the worst due to FFXI having features with a whole bunch of "but"s thrown in. Chocobo raising being one of them

[Dhalmel]

Hey, gang! Spoke with Yoshida about your lively discussion surrounding mounts. As I'm sure is a surprise to no one, there are a lot of varied opinions on personal mounts. We'll be looking into, and evaluating, the most popular ones. That said, please continue to let us know what you want to see in the future!

The introduction of dhalmels and dhalmel mounts....and dodo mounts?!

[Punainen]

I would imagine only non-agro mobs would make realistic mounts.

I'd like to see mounts like:
Dodos
Megalo Crabs
Dhalmel
Aldgoats
Sheep
Antelope
Coblyn

Other things that make sense that someone could domesticate.

Things I DON'T want to see as mounts are agro mobs like wolves or drakes or raptors.

[Kiote]

They could use this time to introduce Cid into the game.

Cids already in.. Do the side quests, you'll see.

[Punainen]

Cids already in.. Do the side quests, you'll see.

Or Biggs/Vicks and Wedge. >.> Wait, were they in 11?

[Seif]

Hey, gang! Spoke with Yoshida about your lively discussion surrounding mounts. As I'm sure is a surprise to no one, there are a lot of varied opinions on personal mounts. We'll be looking into, and evaluating, the most popular ones. That said, please continue to let us know what you want to see in the future!

Can you please ask SE to hire a real GAME DESIGNER to decide and design these things instead of trying to gauge to which direction the mud-slinging on the forums seems to have a stronger current?