Riding Chocobos in town?

[Victor]

I think riding a chocobo in town is a fine idea, although you'd have to block access to the inner parts of buildings--that would be pushing it.

[BloodLotus]

What if they were NPC's walking their Chocobos along the street? Carrying bags or pulling carriages?

I think I would enjoy that more than riding my own Chocobo through the streets.

[SHJcules]

Not so sure about access to riding chocobos in town, so much potential collateral damage! But I'd love to be able to walk alongside my bird in towns, like I am taking him for a walk lol Should only be able to go at a brisk walking pace so people only really do it for that sweet chocobo affection or to show it off to their friends or any random reason really.

[Delsus]

I dont see why people say it chocobos in town would be faster, because if SE has any sense they will limit the speed, probably to 100%, which is our walking pace, therefore there is no reason except to lag us out and prevent everyone seeing what they are doing.

200% movement speed, which is probably what chocobos will be is just stupid in town, and if thats immersion then you are just as stupid, it would be the same as town speed limits for cars being 70 MPH (motorway speed, atleast in the UK)

[kwestro]

Given that people complain about every little detail, I'm pretty sure they'll be rideable in town, dungeons and under lava or whatever else people will want.

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lol! too funny!

[Laughlyn]

I against everything involved with the word "limitation"

Your signature's avar is limited ; ;

[Nuinn]

I think they should not be allowed in town and can demonstrate why very simply...

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Two is even better.

Replace all the mounts with Chocobos, and you get the idea.

No thanks.

HOLY HELL!!! /suicide (translation: I forgot how absolutely ridiculous and horrid it can be)

I'm not that worried.... Don't think they'll really allow them in towns, if you give it some though. Memory issues, especially for the PS3 version, once it's out. Otherwise they wouldn't bother with coply+paste scenery (which they said is to ease PS3 memory specifically) and characters & mobs vanishing from your screen at Japanese prime-time leve linking at Broken Water (which is in an open area even), stopping weather effects in towns etc.

[Shipp]

Being able to ride mounts in the city in WoW made it feel like a city?

What city, exactly, have you been to that has people standing, walking, running around, blocking doorways, crowding walkways, etc. on large animals everywhere that would make it "immersive"? It's completely impractical.

And frankly, they're annoying as hell in cities in WoW. I would often deliberately go out of my way to less populated cities in that game just so I could actually see what I needed to interact with. Not being able to interact with in-game objects because there's several people on their biggest "look at me!!" mounts, completely burying them, is not immersive. It's annoying.

However "tame", they're large animals. They should be kept in stables outside the city or, perhaps, near the exit... but not in the city proper. It would add nothing to the game and would only give people one more way to be annoying, by blocking stairways, doorways, objects, NPCs, etc...

I could see it being useful for things like in parades (a la Ul'dah opening), or for "official" events where NPCs are riding them, etc... But for regular players? No way. You're asking for chaos there.

Emphatically: No chocobos in cities.

I have to agree with this, in WoW, people get on their biggest dragon mount and park it right on the NPC that you need. it's annoying as hell. This doesn't add to immersion whatsoever. In fact, it detracts from it when you're FFUUUU'ing over not being able to turn in a quest, having to mount up and fly to another auctioneer, spend 20 seconds trying to gently move your mouse around in a game of hot and cold trying to find that one pixel your can click on that isn't being blocked by the mount.

[giftforce]

I have to agree with this, in WoW, people get on their biggest dragon mount and park it right on the NPC that you need. it's annoying as hell. This doesn't add to immersion whatsoever. In fact, it detracts from it when you're FFUUUU'ing over not being able to turn in a quest, having to mount up and fly to another auctioneer, spend 20 seconds trying to gently move your mouse around in a game of hot and cold trying to find that one pixel your can click on that isn't being blocked by the mount.

Collision detection. Can we have it?

In Archeage you can't stand on top of an NPC, you can only push them around (within a certain radius).

[Shipp]

Collision detection. Can we have it?

In Archeage you can't stand on top of an NPC, you can only push them around (within a certain radius).

Or you know... we could just not have chocos in a town since it would be a major strain to any PC running it until 3+ years from now.