Suggestions for better flying

[Martin_Arcainess]

I think the main reason why you can't dismount freely mid air are in case you fall down somewhere and your character gets stuck, if they land on there feet then yeah you can easily use the mount command again but it's times when you land in a arkward spot, so you may have landed but your character is still doing the fall animation.

Also maybe due to extra time adding these land zone areas could be used for something else.

[Naunet]

I think the main reason why you can't dismount freely mid air are in case you fall down somewhere and your character gets stuck, if they land on there feet then yeah you can easily use the mount command again but it's times when you land in a arkward spot, so you may have landed but your character is still doing the fall animation.

That happened occasionally in other MMOs, but it's rare and not really a reason to not let you dismount wherever. You'd just /unstuck, which was a quick command to help players out such situations (and was useful if you got stuck in a wall or whatever somehow, too).

[Lambdafish]

That happened occasionally in other MMOs, but it's rare and not really a reason to not let you dismount wherever.

On the contrary, with flying being designed this way from the get go, there isn't much reason to remove the restriction (it almost seems like it would promote getting stuck). How would SE pitch this? NEW FEATURE: mounts can now be disbanded mid air, which achieves nothing except means you fall to your death.

I am in agreement about flight physics and loops though. The game gives me a sense that I'm airborne, but I never feel like I can soar or fly like a bird.

[Naunet]

On the contrary, with flying being designed this way from the get go, there isn't much reason to remove the restriction (it almost seems like it would promote getting stuck). How would SE pitch this? NEW FEATURE: mounts can now be disbanded mid air, which achieves nothing except means you fall to your death.

Eh, even outside of not being able to just dismount wherever I want (and it's not just wanting to fall to my death - there are a lot of statues, pillars, hills, rocks, etc that SE hasn't bothered allowing you to "stand" on, which means you can't "land" on them, which means you can't dismount to stand on top of them), the whole having to get all the way to the ground before dismounting (and not being able to dismount by using an action) is really clunky. The transition between being in the air and being on the ground is not smooth at all.