just wondering, 7 years since ARR we still cant speak to npc on our mount.

[gumas]

why though? iam not programmer but, to allow player to speak to npc while on mount shouldn't be that difficult right?

later when the ARR quest rework come out, we can even fly in ARR realm, but still no interact with npc while on mount.

it cant be programming difficulty right? for politeness? lore related? still got me thinking to this day since (i think?) ff14 is the only mmorpg out there that you must dismount if you want to talk to npc.

[Yshtola]

Because your character totally never uses gestures when talking to some NPCs.

[Fayt1203]

Because its rude to talk to people on the mount XD XD just kidding .. I think its because like on patch days and events alot of people believe that they need to stand in the npc to get the quest which make it hard for some players that dont know that u can press one button to get past that.

[Iscah]

It's nothing to do with "how much time since ARR". Mounts are big and they get in the way.

If you've seen how crowded it gets around a quest NPC when a patch has just launched, especially if talking to them triggers a long cutscene, and multiply that by a large mount for each person in the crowd...

That's why we "still" don't have mounts. By design.

[Melichoir]

Felt is was a method to make sure mounted players dont crowd and block an NPC, so it forces everyone to ground.

That or maybe its a thing with cutscenes.

[Deceptus]

Because you'll have people on literal whales blocking NPCs.

This still routinely happens in WOW to this day.

I'm glad you get dismounted.

[Wyakin]

You used to have to physically get off the mount before even addressing the NPC. Now at least it automatically gets rid of the mount. Think yourself lucky

[Saccharin]

It' hard enough to click on NPCs with people right up next to them as it is. It not hard to remount.

[Mhaeric]

It' hard enough to click on NPCs with people right up next to them as it is. It not hard to remount.

Here's there obligatory "press numpad 0 twice to first target and then interact with the NPC" and "press X to hide all player names and hitboxes allowing you to both see the NPC's name and click on the NPC without interference" options that go out every time this comes up.

On controllers you don't even have to do a trick, iirc, just pressing your interact button twice which does the same this as Numpad 0.

[Iscah]

On controllers you don't even have to do a trick, iirc, just pressing your interact button twice which does the same this as Numpad 0.

No, pressing X/interact twice just locks you onto whatever you targeted the first time.

You can set filters for what you're interacting with, but it's just not nice to have such a crowd around the quest NPCs. I wish people would stand further back so you can actually see them.