Please Increase Ground Mount Speed

[Drako]

Yoshi did say they would increase ground mounts speed, several months ago. But at some point he did a 180 on that statement, but he never really mentioned his own change of heart. Just pretended he never said it I guess. I'd appreciate a little bit of a increase. I mean if they are going to increase flying mounts, you should also increase ground mounts because.. well flying mounts don't exactly need the increase anymore then ground. You can get around pretty quickly in the sky.

[Saggo]

You can ride in every zone. Or do you mean the city zones with the restrictions?

Speed limits as a restriction and mounts have a strict speed limit.

Also at the person saying restrictions to be removed? Since when is being able to move faster a restriction?
Personally I'd think it would be silly and stupid to see people zipping around at super fast speeds in the old areas.

Because I said reduce, not remove? It's entirely possible to do that without zipping around at super fast speeds, whatever that means to you.

[Felis]

Speed limits as a restriction and mounts have a strict speed limit.

walking, running and sprint have also a speed limit. And? Sprint have even a time limit. And don't forget, walking and running are older than ground mounts.

[Cidel]

So, does this mean people are done with wanting new ground mounts and from this point on all we should get are flying mounts?

Because if there's no incentive to use them in the new (active) zones....

[Knahli]

I'd honestly like to see this come about mostly because I have a bit of a pet peeve with people using particular flying mounts that look ridiculous acting as ground mounts, haha. I honestly can't wait for the Twintania hype to die down - assuming it ever does - for that reason. I use my chocobo on my main but I figuratively sigh every time I see a Twintania running around on the ground!

But yes, on a more serious note, I'd like to see ground mounts kept relevant in new areas beyond the phase where you are still collecting currents. Although, even having said that, I guess most people will still stick to the faster option of flying even if ground speed were exaggerated to the point that it almost matched it.

Maybe it would work if they implemented a system where bad weather negatively affected flight speed or something quirky like that? It'll never happen but it sounds like a cute detail to me.

[Evergrey]

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People would most likely still be flying even if ground was almost as fast. It's just always faster to fly over stuff in a straight line instead of going around.

I do like the idea of how weather would effect flying.

[Knahli]

People would most likely still be flying even if ground was almost as fast. It's just always faster to fly over stuff in a straight line instead of going around.

I do like the idea of how weather would effect flying.

I admitted as much myself, haha ; I doubt you could really get around it even with a random idea such as mine unless you were basically moving in straight lines on the ground too. Regardless, even had they the time and resources to actually give this a modicum of priority, I'm sure that giving people incentive to return to ground mounts wouldn't be of great interest to them.

[ECHOxLegend]

can we just retcon flying abilities onto them? coeurls can use magnetisms, the demon eyeballs can actually fly, the bombs are bombs, let cid put a jetpack on our mechs, give the behemoth sky walk for all I care.

[Vandril]

I don't care either way...

...so long as, if it is done, mount speed remains as it is now in PvP.

Mount speeds should never outspeed Sprint in PvP. The speed balance as it stands now is perfect.

[StrejdaTom]

I am still failing to see any reason behind this request.
In HW we have flying, ARR zones are so small that they really don't need this and PvP seems to be fine with this speed too.
I wouldn't mess with things that don't need it.