Thread: Suggestion: Flying in 2.0 areas

I keep seeing Yoshi-P state that Flying would be extremely difficult to to do in 2.0 areas with the reason being that they'd have to fix the areas to make them flight-worthy. But this assumes, that we want to fly at max height (or at the very least above trees.)
I don't think that we necessarily need to fly at that kind of height, nor do we need to fix the 2.0 areas to fly at all. I'm perfectly happy with flying at a stationary height in 2.0 areas. That way it wouldn't require the need to redo the 2.0 areas. For example, Ahriman mount sits a certain distance off the ground, allow us to fly maybe slightly higher than that at a stationary level and I would accept that. If that could be done but still give us the same flight speed of the mount it doesn't sound like it would cause too much issue.

At least then we could fly, and SE would not have to spend countless man-hours fixing the terrain to suitable for flight.

Anyways, just a thought.

P.S. In the event flying can just not be done at all then, please give us access to flying mount speeds for ground mounts in 2.0 areas upon completion of gathering all the known Aether currents.

Barely getting off the ground defeats the purpose of being able to fly. You may as well ask them to reverse their decision on making ground mounts faster for all the good that would do.

This was addressed in yesterday's Q&A:

Q61. Do you plan on increasing the speed of regular ground mounts?

A61. We do not have any plans for this at the moment. There is a high possibility that we increase the speed of flight for flying mounts.

Edit: For the record, I'm all for increasing mount speed on the ground and in the air, faster travel is awesome.

But I'm not sure about adding flying to a lot more areas. Flying becoming an expectation will cause all sorts of problems down the road, my heart wants flying in every area of course, but my brain tells me it's a bad idea based on what happened in a certain other MMO that has flying.