A mounts matter

[Shougun]

Variables != what it takes to create a game. The math could be as easy as 1+1, that has absolutely nothing to do with creating an engine for an MMORPG played by hundreds of thousands of people*.

*maybe

Movement system is already created - so long as I said its flexible it would mostly be variables. If its not flexible.. then yes it could take a lot of work.

[Kallivis]

Movement system is already created - so long as I said its flexible it would mostly be variables. If its not flexible.. then yes it could take a lot of work.

I don't think they had shield/damage tolerance/turn radius/acceleration/leaping/etc. in mind when creating a standard movement system.

Who knows, maybe they did. Maybe they're crazy enough to have foresight on this sort of idea and have something planned for it in the future.

Regardless of if they did or didn't, I think it's a bad idea. Personally, I wouldn't want this sort of thing in the game as I think it would cause more harm than good. I want mounts to be solely aesthetic, as I'll be damned if I'll be told what to ride just as what I'm told what to wear to endgame.

Next, we'll have vanity slots for our mounts. That way we can have our standard chocobo or coeurl that has an energy shield and can fly and run 10000 mph and fire missiles!

[Shougun]

I don't think they had shield/damage tolerance/turn radius/acceleration/leaping/etc. in mind when creating a standard movement system.

Who knows, maybe they did. Maybe they're crazy enough to have foresight on this sort of idea and have something planned for it in the future.

Regardless of if they did or didn't, I think it's a bad idea. Personally, I wouldn't want this sort of thing in the game as I think it would cause more harm than good. I want mounts to be solely aesthetic, as I'll be damned if I'll be told what to ride just as what I'm told what to wear to endgame.

Next, we'll have vanity slots for our mounts. That way we can have our standard chocobo (they get gear, so they can scale) or coeurl that has an energy shield and can fly and run 10000 mph and fire missiles! (dont be patronizing I never suggested that)

Yeah thats defintely something I didnt expect to see in FF players - a lot of dress up people here.. Vanity slots boggle my mind - very simplified gaming. People make fun of WoW* and then WoW is often more hardcore then what they were asking for lol. *Was more so then it is now lol

[Kallivis]

Yeah thats defintely something I didnt expect to see in FF players - a lot of dress up people here.. Vanity slots boggle my mind - very simplified gaming. People make fun of WoW* and then WoW is often more hardcore then what they were asking for lol. *Was more so then it is now lol

The purpose of them (and the point of most roleplaying games in general) is to customize your character as you see fit, so not everybody is a carbon copy of one another. It's not fun to see every single person with the exact same gear and mounts.

[Shougun]

The purpose of them (and the point of most roleplaying games in general) is to customize your character as you see fit, so not everybody is a carbon copy of one another. It's not fun to see every single person with the exact same gear and mounts.

Neither is it fun to see people wearing garbage and being effective, or having a turtle and running the speed of a chocobo.

You can scale content and make it biased - as WoW did with its mounts. Even though there are "stats" there is still a huge variety of mounts used at max level. Customization != everything has to be the same.

[Kallivis]

Neither is it fun to see people wearing garbage and being effective

Yeah because what a character looks like definitely makes them more effective.

Chainmail thongs and the like.

[Shougun]

Yeah because what a character looks like definitely makes them more effective.

Chainmail thongs and the like.

I'm not for that either (armor being good when its visually not armor at all). But I said wearing garbage, not looking garbage. So that includes using level 1 items as level 50 items and it being good because of dress up games.