Riding Chocobos in town?

[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.

[giftforce]

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.

You guys that put your PCs at too-high settings can just have a toggle to not display chocobo-people.

[Shipp]

You guys that put your PCs at too-high settings can just have a toggle to not display chocobo-people.

TROLOLOL?

You people that apparently never reside in a city, even with every setting turned down to the lowest possible setting, can just keep your chocobos out in the field since it's obvious that's the only place you ever are.