give us the bike PLS :D

[hagare]

thats a interesting idea about the state of the world it does make me think is there another calamity that HASNT happened in eorzea.

And makes you think that the calamities are local to eorzea.

"dear have you seen the neighbor today? They seem to be having an end of the world event again."

[Kaiser-Ace]

Because it doesn't have off road capabilities. Or flight.

And how hard is it to put off road tires on a Real Bike? I'm completely incompetent at Auto Mechanics and even I can swap out street tiers for off road tiers. And as for flight, same answer as how the Magitek Armors. Hoverjets. We have Manacutters aka Personal Aircraft (Which I still think needs some weapons) and Garlen Magitek Armors which both are to advanced for Eorzea's 14th Century levels of Technology. (Air Ships are basically hot air balloons which I believe date back to the 16th century) so if everyone is ok with those, then there is no VALID argument behind the bike other than the system's technical limits and the dev's personal Quality standards. (Which are as confusing as they are vague)

Personally if I was off roading in Eorzea I'd be afraid to go over 10 MPH due to the treacherous terrain. And I bet Chocobos can easily go at least that fast.

[Kaiser-Ace]

And makes you think that the calamities are local to eorzea.

"dear have you seen the neighbor today? They seem to be having an end of the world event again."

The 4th and 5th Umbral Events would have been more wide spread as the 5th Umbral Era was an actual Ice Age. Which allowed many foreign creatures, Including the Miqo'te Tribes, to travel to Eorzea. The Earthquake being massive enough to damage an entire continent was definatly felt elsewhere, but the 6th Umbra Flood as well as Bahamut's Rampage that caused the 7th Umbral era were both strictly local tragedies. Bahamut never made it off of Eorzea and the Elementals were specifically targeting the White and Black Mages of Eorzea.

As for the 1st - 3rd Umbral Calamities being of Wind, Lightning, and Fire in that order, we know absolutely nothing about them as up until Dalamud uncovered the numerous Allagan Ruins information Predating the 4th Umbral Era was unreliable at best. Even a lot of the information on the 5th Astral Era is lost after all.

Also Hagare, if you and draco think I should I'll move this topic to the Lore forum and see if I can get Moose Sensei and Enkidu Senpai to weigh in on it as well.

[AlphaFox]

Seeing as people are already asking to have Goobbues and Fenrir fly.. surely this would be the next requested one, if not automatically. No, no thanks.



Careful of that slippery slope, brushing it off easily as that will make room for people to ask for this next...

Never know, for all we know one day we may go to a place almost similar to FF8's Esthar. When compared to that, vehicles and such wouldn't seem all that insane to imagine, yet at the same time with the whole allagan deal, I'd say its possible.




As someone else mentioned we need to kinda get over the whole medieval basis we started with cus obviously we are moving up in technology here the further we go along. Now I admit cars would be a lot bulkier and don't exactly see those ever being a choice, but at the time a single seat motorcycle still is in the way of possibilities I say until debunked by a higher power.

[DracotheDragon]

Also Hagare, if you and draco think I should I'll move this topic to the Lore forum and see if I can get Moose Sensei and Enkidu Senpai to weigh in on it as well.

might be fun to start a calamity thread on the lore fourm later see if we can get some lore team love on that


back onto the bike, and i do agree with the few about leaving this medieval bias, if you look around eorzea do have technology, that is aspected to magic and crystals with a BRAND NEW steampunk machinist guild that is designed to create new technology, look at your chronometers (clocks) and some of the other tech we use and thats garlian and some others are allag.

[Gilraen]

Begging for the motorcycle isn't going to make them implement it. It wasn't voted down in a player poll, it wasn't some player contest entry that didn't make the cut. It was made by the developers, weighed by the developers and ultimately rejected by the developers... long before anyone even knew it existed. The only reason it's appearing now is because someone asked about a motorcycle mount in a Live Letter Q&A. They probably made it to go with the Strife set, given it's the Advent Children motorcycle Cloud used. We can ask for it all we want but the reasons it was originally rejected would still be the same. It'd be no faster than a fat chocobo.

Wow, all this talk of lore and technology and what have you really seems to be way off the mark...

[hagare]

Also Hagare, if you and draco think I should I'll move this topic to the Lore forum and see if I can get Moose Sensei and Enkidu Senpai to weigh in on it as well.

Hey Draco's the OP

So if bikes aren't viable for whatever reason, what about bicycles? Wouldn't be weird speed wise, purely mechanical and we can even get different types of bikes for different races. Tricycle for lalafells xD

[DracotheDragon]

Wow, all this talk of lore and technology and what have you really seems to be way off the mark...

since you like reposting that then i will repost this.

yes no faster then the fat chocobo, normal chocobo, and the other 4 chocobos, the 11 different horses (one for each element and one who is a 'mythological king of beasts'), a flying allagan sphere, a flying airship,a demon, a lizard, a dragon, a mythological myrcidian wyvern, 4 different magiteks, a behemoth, gob tank, two giant plant monsters, a walking fish, a flying chair held up by EXPLOSIVES, a gryphon, a wolf, a mythological wolf, A TURTLE!, a MAGIC FLYING BROOM AND a LALAFELL WHO IS SPRINTING. i don't think speed of the mount is that absurd. and when it comes to flying if the magitek mounts can fly and the fat chocobo can fly by the sheer will of CAKE, then i don't think this is to difficult for people to abide.

and not to mention we (the players) have even come up with REASONS for the slow speed such as it being a PEDAL BIKE, but hey ho.

there is still many a reason that can explain praticly everything as for it flying most of my friends i ask all tend to go to the same ideas of it having a rotor come out the back of the bike and spin or have it's wheels split to fly,

for it's speed nearly everyone tends to say that it is busted a pedal bike, or a experiment so it cannot move fast.

and if it is the design of the bike in the picture, THAT is not what most of us are after, a BIKE in general is what people have been saying, made by the steelworks or the iron works or garalamald or by the allagan.

[Gilraen]

I keep reposting cause people seem to be going for eachothers throats like they're the ones responsible for why the developers aren't going to release it. This is simply not true, the developers never were going to release it, and it's not because of lore, nor immersion or even lack of demand. They felt it just wouldn't look right traveling as fast as every other mount in the game. And the reason they don't want to just make it go faster is as simple as balance and loading speeds. I think a motorcycle mount would be neat, but if the developers already made up their minds then I'm not going to question it. It's not my game, I'm just playing it.

[FallenArisen0990]

I keep reposting cause people seem to be going for eachothers throats like they're the ones responsible for why the developers aren't going to release it. This is simply not true, the developers never were going to release it, and it's not because of lore, nor immersion or even lack of demand. They felt it just wouldn't look right traveling as fast as every other mount in the game. And the reason they don't want to just make it go faster is as simple as balance and loading speeds. I think a motorcycle mount would be neat, but if the developers already made up their minds then I'm not going to question it. It's not my game, I'm just playing it.

And the more we go on about the bikes, eventually the Dev Team will cave in and give us a bike.