Riding Chocobos in town?

[giftforce]

Keep the chocobos and other mounts outside. First and most important reason being the crowding. Chocobos are huge in game if you havn't noticed. Imagine a bunch (or even just 3 or 4) of people mounted on chocobos all crowding around the guild leve counter or the repair npc or in doorways or standing on top of people trying to bazaar.

Second is lag and stuttering. Cities are already generally laggy enough due to the volume of people all in one spot. Now give all those people gigantic yellow birds to race around with and someone's graphics card is going to have a heart attack.

Third, and this is my opinion, but there really isn't a need for mounts inside cities at this point. The cities are large, but are laid out in a way to where you can get where you need to go quickly. To sum up, I would rather walk than deal with the lag and crowding.

Um, just make chocobos have a slow-run within the city and dont let them go inside buildings. It's illogical that they cannot run though the main thoroughfar though. What do you think it's there for?

You guys are too hung up on FFXI and all its rules.

[Hubert]

Um, just make chocobos have a slow-run within the city and dont let them go inside buildings. It's illogical that they cannot run though the main thoroughfar though. What do you think it's there for?

You guys are too hung up on FFXI and all its rules.

A "slow-run" would defeat the purpose of having a mount and would do absolutely nothing to alleviate lag issues. Keeping mounts outside buildings would be good until you realize that there are quest NPCs and merchants who have stalls outside buildings. Maybe it's just me but I actually enjoy looking at the city and landscapes as I go and not just blindly charging from point A to point B. I'd rather not have to wade through a sea of chocobo arses every time I go into town. Honestly, the only place so far that would support chocobos inside the city is Uldah. Limsa has a lot of small ramps and walkways while Gridania has forest trails and cramped tunnels.

Lastly, I don't really see how FFXI has anything to do with anything I said.