[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[Nabiri]

I remember SE saying a long while back that there would be chocobos and horse-driven carriages.

Was just looking for sources and I had a hard time but I found this..
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/05/26/flying_get/

Apparently it was in Famitsu.

[Vesperia]

I remember SE saying a long while back that there would be Chocobos and horse driven carriages.

Was just looking for sources and I had a hard time but I found this..
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/05/26/flying_get/

Apparently it was in Famitsu.

THey probably meant HorseBIRD-drawn carriages.

[Elexia]

I hope that :

-They don't charge a lot to use one.

-Doesn't need to do a stupid quest to use one.

I also would like other animals to use for transportation. What would be original is that each race has a specific mount beside chocobos.

They have to charge a lot since gil is meaningless in this game.

[Veasna]

I'm also for just chocobos (in different sizes, colours etc) as mounts. I found it very annoying in other mmo's that there were mounts from creatures that were either not in the game in any other shape or form or were clearly much to aggresive to tame and ride. More often than not people would look stupid and out of place on them too.

Give us our shephard job with a means to breed chocobo's so these can be sold to the public maybe?

[Dreamer]

I'm really looking forward to seeing chocobos in game. HOWEVER, I really, really hope they don't add other animals to ride - chocobos are a Final Fantasy staple, and seeing people riding around on other animals would simply be blasphemy of the highest degree.

Of course, chocobo-drawn carriages and airships are perfectly fine, if that's what they meant.

[Nabiri]

THey probably meant HorseBIRD-drawn carriages.

I wouldn't think so since they said chocobos and horses.

I liked the horse-like creatures in other FF games. It would be really cool to see more of their kind.

Edit: Ah right.. they were called Sleipnir. ^^

[Luluna]

I would just like to see Chocobos just wouldn't feel right if not. As long as there is a nice variety of colours and maybe you can add decoration to make them a little more unique then it beats running everywhere.

[Andrien]

1. Chocobo breeding
2. Chocobo racing
3. Many different Chocobo colors
4. Gold Chocobo
5. Fighting on Chocobo
6. Chocobo armor
7. Chocobo can be used to help you dig up treasures and reach areas that you cannot get to

All this I want.

[normalforce]

They really coded themselves into a corner by making this lazy warping system that breaks the immersion of a consistent world completely.

What you do is hook people on a simple traveling system, then have some sort of crazy world event where all the Aetheryte have broken and the mysterious aetheric mist no longer crystallizes. Prices rise, panic breaks out and the days of near-instantaneous travel are now over. Or is it?

The campaign to repair the Aetheryte introduces chocobos and airships into Eorzea. New zones are added that are only accessible by these new forms of travel, as the aetheric mist is incapable of crystallizing close to these anomalies that have sprung up. Once you have defeated the big bad, the Aetherytes start to reform, but now require more anima the further away from the city you're trying to teleport. The anomalies, however, still exist and continue to interfere with teleportation (possibly making it somewhat unreliable by either randomly costing more anima than normal or just occasionally not being able to teleport you).

[Dragon]

I wouldn't mind seeing other forms of mounts really as long as they was well thought out, had some kind of lore behind it and just didn't look tacky and added on. I want my Roegadyn riding around on a big ol Dodo. Ahahahaha

I've to agree.

Don't give us mounts just for the sake of having mounts; instead, make sure they fit into XIV, period.

Of course, I also think a non-chocobo mount should be extremely hard to obtain as well that should also require a high-level to use.