[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[Leonesaurus]

To be honest, I rather TAME half of these creatures people keep mentioning, and have them fight for me, opposed to using them as an excuse for another mount option.

Or better yet, why not just create Disciple of Beasts and have them the option of taming beasts and having the option to "ride" certain tamable mobs, for a select duration before they turn on you or something.

However, the dev team should be focusing solely on chocobos for right now, rather than broadening their range to 50 million other possible ideas, that most people, according to our forums, don't even want now, if not ever.

Focus on bringing in the Chocobos for everyone to ride, then at a later date implement breeding, racing, raising, possible mounted combat and quests, etc.

To be honest, I don't think there's even enough material to work with in the game for other mounts. A raptor is very, very slightly possibile for smaller races, since the dinosaur shares the basic build and movement as a Chocobo. Or maybe an aldgoat for a larger race.

If the art team digs up some of its unreleased monsters or comes up with some new ones that could work as a tamable beast and/or as an exclusive mount, that would be interesting too.

I have an open/welcoming mind for more mounts, but Chocobos are what got me into the series, got me into playing XI for them soley, and excited me even more for this game when it released. I'm happy with just having them for now and even forever. The amount of things you can do with a Chocobo is seemingly limitless.

[Vesperia]

I feel like anything other than a hooved mob, or a dragon of some sort would just be tacky, and even the ones I mentioned are stretching it.

Chocobos are really the only viable one, and an in-depth breeding/taming system would assuage any qualms people have for want of diversity in their mount options.

Furthermore, mounted combat should be an option. I would rather have one mount and a range of things I could do on the mount than a million species of mounts that I can only "ride around on".

[Nuru]

I feel like anything other than a hooved mob, or a dragon of some sort would just be tacky, and even the ones I mentioned are stretching it.

Chocobos are really the only viable one, and an in-depth breeding/taming system would assuage any calms people have for want of diversity in their mount options.

Furthermore, mounted combat should be an option. I would rather have one mount and a range of things I could do on the mount than a million species of mounts that I can only "ride around on".

I'd much prefer this myself. Same mount, but ways to customize it differently. Like equps, enhancing speed (for those using it as a mount for travel, ex. Racing Saddle) Defense (those using it for combat, ex. Choco-Armor) or perhaps even equipping one with Pouch Saddle, increasing the amount of items you can carry while you are DoL farming for items.

[Duelle]

Chocobos are really the only viable one, and an in-depth breeding/taming system would assuage any qualms people have for want of diversity in their mount options.

At the risk of being a huge timesink that makes your time and effort worthless. There's a reason why I'm not keen on a breeding/raising system, you know.

[Rentahamster]

At the risk of being a huge timesink that makes your time and effort worthless. There's a reason why I'm not keen on a breeding/raising system, you know.

Read my proposals in the chocobo thread and tell me what you think.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Want-Your-Fix

[Duelle]

Read my proposals in the chocobo thread and tell me what you think.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Want-Your-Fix

Your rent costs for owning one chocobo, combined with an overt reliance on other people turn me off, but a decent read nevertheless. It's not you, but more my hatred for rarity-based systems (which this happens to reek of).

[Rentahamster]

Your rent costs for owning one chocobo, combined with an overt reliance on other people turn me off, but a decent read nevertheless. It's not you, but more my hatred for rarity-based systems (which this happens to reek of).

The costs are designed as a gil-sink, which we are sorely in need of (see: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Curb-Inflation )

Also there is no overt reliance on others. Just rent or buy if you don't want to do the raising. It's also not rarity-based. Anyone can rent, and you can probably find someone willing to sell for cheap. The only time rarity comes into play is when you want to breed a specific type of chocobo.

[Jynx]

Personally I don't care what they do with mounts...well there is one thing I do care about. Make sure it's just Chocobos, hell make them ultimately customizable with chrome rims and shit. But for the love of god don't start handing out mounts like they are skittles.

I don't want to see someone driving a marmot or dodo or dragon or sea turtle or bionic puppy. This one thing I say SE needs to be sure to follow KISS "Keep it simple stupid"

[Resheph]

I just became privy to this thread so I don't know if anyone has made this suggestion or not, but back in the day when I played FFXI I always thought to myself that there could be more mounts besides just Chocobos. Specifically there could have been racial mounts. (Like Galka riding Dhalmel and Tarutaru riding Crawlers) So, in the same spirit, I think it would be cool if there were either some kind of Race specific or nation specific types of mounts that could be used for transport or other specific purposes. XI had a lot more mobs to choose from that were mount-worthy. I can't think of all of the possibilities for XIV but the idea of a Roagadyn riding an Aldgoat or a Lalafell riding a Dodo appeal to me!

[Truvy]

I think Chocobo's need to simply be _the_ mount. Wether you have to get em from a quest, bread em, catch em, etc IDK...but some sort of mount to get around would be great.

Also I'd like to see:

1) Airships used....docks all over the place and I'm sure those ships floating about would really like to come down now >.>

2) The Taxi Service operational. There are Taxi stations around as well on pre-set routes...I think these would be worth implimenting as well.

Movement in this game shouldn't be as limited as it is. People wasting hours running about because they are out of Anima etc...it seems silly for such a 'laid back' and 'social' MMO.

Just my 2 Gil worth