More Diversity with Mounts

[Awaterujin]

Shhh! Don't spoil ._.

I do wonder what use we will have for airships. If it's travel, by free flying well be able to get from point A to point B in 10 seconds cause Eorzea isn't really that big even on foot. That's 9 seconds slower than teleporting @____@; I'm hoping for aerial zones and battles and floating cities. Getting flashbacks of my time in Allods now :x

Well, according to Square Enix, in a Letter from Dev,

Q: What are the advantages of making things in your underground workshop?
A: You'll be able to build airships and go adventuring with them. We were stuck on deciding whether to go with boats or airships, but we decided to go with airships first. We'd also like to do boats, but for now crafters will be able to gather together and build airships in these underground workshops. We'd like to introduce this before the first expansion.

[Arkghyom]

We're getting airships, eventually. You will be able to craft those.

Probably next century.

[Gilraen]

Personally, I'm glad the mounts are just mounts and not mounts with special abilities. Mounts are, in themselves, a special ability so making them even more special strikes of unfairness and Square's MMOs have rarely been unfair for one group over another. XIs raised chocobos are no different. Yes, you could make them faster than rentals but anyone could do that, color was just for vanity. If anything, mounts should be customizable with dye, sense permitting.

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

Is it just me or do mounts feel a bit sluggish in this game? I'd be ok if SE made them just a tad faster.

[PArcher]

While I would like Mounts to have different abilities...I do prefer them to just be for vanity right now. Like its been said, people would just go crazy over which is the "best" and harass those without that one mount

However...I would LOVE for them to all be used as companions, and to have different abilities there

[Mixxy]

Two things:
1. We need more visual differences, but we don't need different speeds. As someone who collected mounts in WoW, it's kind of upsetting for me when the total mounts in the game numbers... what, 5? Maybe 6? I don't really count the different bardings, because I hate the bird and they won't go on my unicorn.
2. Right now mounts behave exactly like your character, but faster. What if, and just think about this for a moment, but what if mounts behaved more like individual entities? Think of Epona from the Legend of Zelda games. Yeah you have control over it, but it definitely gives some resistance. It feels like a horse. Even better, instead of the animal teleporting out of our asses, what if we called the Chocobo with a whistle, and it spawned just out of sight, then ran over to us? Then we could double-click to hop on, and off we go. W

Why am I the only person who ever seems to want that from MMO mounts?

[UBERHAXED]

2. Right now mounts behave exactly like your character, but faster. What if, and just think about this for a moment, but what if mounts behaved more like individual entities? Think of Epona from the Legend of Zelda games. Yeah you have control over it, but it definitely gives some resistance. It feels like a horse. Even better, instead of the animal teleporting out of our asses, what if we called the Chocobo with a whistle, and it spawned just out of sight, then ran over to us? Then we could double-click to hop on, and off we go.

They have this, it's just in a different games. What you're looking for is how the chocobo companion and mount works in Lightning Returns.

[reign70]

I'd really like the gear (barding) for my bird to be more than simply vanity. I meant he Odin barding should increase the birds abilities or something along those lines!

[myahele]

Like others have said I'd like some off the mounts to be companions as well. It should not be too difficult to implemend. Just use the chocobo companion leveling system and replace the code for chocobo to something else.

Maybe once they reach lv 10 they can use thier iconic attacks

[Lumiin]

SEPHIROTH mount

....I'll mount Sephiroth.