[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[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.