Allow chocobos in cities?

[SamSmoot]

After spending far too much time running around Gridania. I wonder if limited mounts in cities would be acceptable.
Just limit it to plain vanilla chocobos. No matter what gear you have on it, it would look just like a brand new one to avoid visual clutter.
Or, just make it so any mount you enter a city on gets turned into a plain chocobo, or something smaller (A Segway?)

[Gula]

I'm sure there's a lore reason behind this. And I'd imagine cleaning chocobo waste off the immaculate white streets of Limsa would be an absolute pain.

Think of it as riding a horse in a crowded city, but on the sidewalk. If something like this were implemented, best be sure people would be asking why they can't have [insert mount here.] as well.

[supergiz]

If they did this it should only be chocobos. Rhaglar's reach was bad enough with all the cars everywhere, don't want regular cities with same situation.

[Shougun]

I think it could be cool to see /just/ your own chocobo but it might get a bit ugly in places, like imagine walking sands with 49 chocobos out lol. Also if they're out then they'll take your chocobo timer, unless they also turn off the timer too.


Maybe they can design a city in the future with chocobos in mind, where they could be out. Like chocobo paradise .

[Kurando]

It also has potential to be a loading nightmare for some areas. I mean at the moment places like Limsa have lots of players idling in the lower docks, if we were to see Chocobos out then players might start complaining of it taking too long for the area to load up.

[Wyssahtyn]

I'm sure there's a lore reason behind this. And I'd imagine cleaning chocobo waste off the immaculate white streets of Limsa would be an absolute pain.

Think of it as riding a horse in a crowded city, but on the sidewalk. If something like this were implemented, best be sure people would be asking why they can't have [insert mount here.] as well.

Chocobos are skittish.

[Bonbori]

Or they could just reduce Sprint cooldown to 0 while in a city. Not like it would matter that much given that aethernet is still the fastest possible way of getting around. Can you think of any important place that isn't aethernet-connected to any other important place, or at least a short sprint away? On top of that, the cast time of mounting up makes mounts less efficient at short distances.

Also, once again, a definite and uncompromising NO to limiting mount selection to just chocobos, anywhere. I collect mounts, some of them worth real money, for a reason and it's not so they could gather dust in a garage somewhere.

[Krotoan]

I'd rather they just put in a couple more Aetherytes, like when they added the marketplace one to Uldah. Gridania has a couple inconvenient areas to get to.. but most aren't more than a sprint away from any Aetheryte anyway. Mounts in areas with NPC's a lot of people need to access aren't really a good idea. Yes you can tab/controller target them but a lot of people still click on everything and it's already frustrating when people stand on stuff with their giant toon.

[ElHeggunte]

Between the Aethernet and Sprint, I can't think of a single place that you can't reach in well under a minute in the city-states. Mounts would save you all of a few seconds while also adding a large amount of clutter.

[Eldevern]

Thanks but no, since people can keep Chocobo as a follower, I don't want to see chocobos everywhere. There is enough clipping like that.