How long do mounts take to add?

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I fail to see an issue. Our running speed is infact a bit faster then ffxi's. And it doesn't rake long at all to walk to places. I literally walked from gridania to ul'dah and it took 1 hr. Running = 40 min. And this included stoping to get camp spots also. A chocobo even as just a mount will not be all that much faster. And your still "walking" to the locations.

And fyi and The anima has lore backing the "restrictiveness." It is said that aether waves (the style of teleporting we do) causes stress to our bodies anime is a fail safe (and better then gil considering repair costs and gear prices)

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I believe they are going to implement all transportation modes at once or several at the very least so they need to make sure they have everything hammered out first.

[ApplePie]

SE has said the aetheryte system currently is enough for the transportation needs of this game. They are looking into how to add mounts effectively.

[LateReg]

Because they are not just "adding" mounts as something you pick up and ride like WoW. They are going to have a full fledge raising system ready from the start when chocobos go live and that takes a lot of finalization and programing and bugtesting.

Where did they ever say that?

[Azurus]

I fail to see an issue. Our running speed is infact a bit faster then ffxi's. And it doesn't rake long at all to walk to places. I literally walked from gridania to ul'dah and it took 1 hr. Running = 40 min. And this included stoping to get camp spots also. A chocobo even as just a mount will not be all that much faster. And your still "walking" to the locations.

And fyi and The anima has lore backing the "restrictiveness." It is said that aether waves (the style of teleporting we do) causes stress to our bodies anime is a fail safe (and better then gil considering repair costs and gear prices)

walking from gridania to Ul Dah sounds painful, please dont assume everyone is as masochistic. Mounts would make a big difference in traveling as it is roughly 60-100% faster in most games. Besides chocobos being a FF mainstay, which warrants their implementation alone, this increase in speed would make exploring this world alot more appealing to others. Right now walking the copy/paste world is not worth it, If people atleast feel they are doing it faster it comforts them atleast some what. Chocobos will just help this game psychologically more then anything, regardless of their function.

[Shizuo]

5-8 months from the start of the project if all goes well would be my guess.

[Rentahamster]

5-8 months from the start of the project if all goes well would be my guess.

5-8 months?? They shouldn't have to take that long.

They already have the Chocobo model.
They already have the Chocobo riding animation.
They already have a Chocobo NPC.
Don't even bother with the mount and dismount animation, just have the player disappear and reappear on a chocobo, like what happens when you change gear.

Just a few programming changes, and they should be able to have a basic Chocobo rental implementation up and running in less than a month.

Put in in a patch, see how the players like, it get some feedback.


Use what you learned to elaborate on the system and then implement a greater variety of Chocobo variations (they can do this easily with sliders like they do with clothing)

They already have some Choco gear models, just make some more

Implement breeding in a patch. Get some feedback.


Make some racetracks,

Implement racing.

It shouldn't be that hard. Other devs do a lot more with less time.


All about Chocobos"

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Want-Your-Fix

[Peregrine]

With as much text adventuring as the game has had us do to participate in for content that's not tangibly in the game, I'd have been okay with an invisible chocobo.

This is the part you pretend you're riding a chocobo, just as you pretend there are actually factions that exist in eorzea (they're not real either).

[Cairdeas]

Where did they ever say that?

Tanaka promised it before Yoshida took over and Yoshida promised that all of Tanaka's promises would be followed through with.

[LateReg]

Tanaka promised it before Yoshida took over and Yoshida promised that all of Tanaka's promises would be followed through with.

Firstly, no, he didn't. Secondly, the way Yoshi talks in his letters and such, it seems like breeding isn't necessarily the direction they're taking it all (although it likely will be implemented a la XI); and it definitely doesn't seem like it will be the centerpiece of mount implementation. They constantly reiterate that they want to do something new.