Unable to ride chocobos in town makes me facepalm.

[PikachuLink]

if you want chocobos out of town gtfo this game! 6 year old mmo's even allow mounts in town there is nothing wrong with allowing it and your trying to limit the game of features by not allowing simple obvious choices like this

[User201109011315]

OMG PLEASE DON'T DRIVE CARS DOWN THE STREETS!

Uldah and Limsa clearly have streets capable of harbouring chocobo traffic as well as foot traffic.

And gridania is so underpopulated that it wouldn't even matter you drove a whole flock of chocobos through the place.

[Felis]

agreed

the chocobo should be dismiss only when you enter the building

You mean the moment you set your feet in the city wall floor (Uldah) or the entrance hall (LL) ?
Then Gridania would be the only chocobo allowed city.

[PikachuLink]

You mean the moment you set your feet in the city wall floor (Uldah) or the entrance hall (LL) ?
Then Gridania would be the only chocobo allowed city.

he means in buildings like adventures guild derpy or halls of flames etc crap like that puglist area etc

[Teknoman]

I know XIV is trying to take advantage of many modern MMO features, but honestly chocobos in town arent necessary. Not to mention you've never been able to use a chocobo in a town in any FF title...main or otherwise.

Just because you can do something, doesnt mean you should. If it doesnt really add to the game...then I dont see a point spending time on it.

[PikachuLink]

I know XIV is trying to take advantage of many modern MMO features, but honestly chocobos in town arent necessary. Not to mention you've never been able to use a chocobo in a town in any FF title...main or otherwise.

Just because you can do something, doesnt mean you should. If it doesnt really add to the game...then I dont see a point spending time on it.

Naw in this case it would help getting around town faster etc...it is worth it to ride in town....and just because they werent able to in other ff titles doesnt mean they shouldnt be able to now....SE needs to revamp the FF series anyways (their trying too atleast) and i dont see a single bad thing about riding them in town....showing them off to friends and having quicker travel in towns...its necessary maybe not at releasal but eventually especially when they add more to chocobos in general its expected to ride them in town from most gamers...

[Ceska_Zbrojovka]

Naw in this case it would help getting around town faster etc...

Ok, So.. You want to be able to do things around town faster.
Then I guess you won't bitch when you've done everything so quickly and are waiting for more content?

[Teknoman]

Thats why I was saying they are trying different things with XIV, but some things just really arent necessary to change. Am I against it? No. Do I think that its necessary or should be something complained about/worthy of facepalming? Definitely not.

Town travel really isnt that slow in the first place. You'll spend most of your time out in the fields, which REALLY needed a faster way to get around, especially to areas that arent near aetheryte crystals/nodes.
Besides we'll have plenty of time to show off chocobos when traversing wide areas to missions,quests,stronghold assaults, battle chocobo trainer or whatever. There you'll be able to show off banners, and whatever else they have planned in the future.

[Holland]

Chocobos in town breaks my Immersion....

Edit: On a more serious note, its been said to death, the cons of having mounts inside cities are far more than what any good it may bring. The only thing people are able to come up with is "So I can travel faster in town". To counter the lag this will cause they say dismount if you enter buildings, because the only choking point would be the Leve counter?

The main counter of the wards is not inside a building, the repair NPC is not inside a building, the NPC everyone uses to vendor their stuff is not inside of a building, but rather on a very enclosed space. all these choking points are outside.... Anyway...

No, Mounts outside towns are fine, there is no feature they can implement to go along with using a mount inside towns, so the "they are living in the past by limiting themselves" line does not fly.

[Benji]

They mentioned allowing chocobos eventually being able to walk beside us, as part of Yoshi's initial chocobo development list he gave us. I hope they do something like when you cross the certain point going into town you automatically dismount and the bird continues to walk beside you into town.