Fashion Mounts

[Petite]

What if Fashion Mounts were also a thing? Here’s what I brainstormed on this idea.

Fashion Mounts would:

• be usable in the same areas Fashion Accessories can be used in;
• be unable to fly;
• give no bonus to your character’s movement speed (avoids overuse in towns);


Examples:

Quad Roller Skates :

• Emote : Shuffle (usable when stationary)

Rollerblades :

• Emote : Freestyle (or Slalom) (useable when moving)

Skateboards :

• Jumping animations change to an Ollie
• Emote : Kickflip (useable when stationary or moving)

Town Bicycle :

• 2-seater
• Option to put a minion in the front basket
• Emote : Ring bell (with little music notes VFX)

Shared Umbrella :

• 2-seater
• Emote : Sideways Conversation (useable if both “seats” are occupied)
• Can select the desired umbrella among the Fashion Accessories you already posess
• Turns off weapon display during use

Caveats to the Fashion Mount idea :

• Since these mounts would be "physically powered" by our WoLs, the devs would probably want to animate a unique “pivot” and “idle” animation for each.
  
• The wheels on some of these could be made out of aether (roller skating on grass/dirt/snow isn’t ideal).
  
• The Roller Skates/Blades should replace your currently equipped boots so we could have different looking ones.
  
• Race height constraints :
  --- Town Bicycle : If the race pairing’s height difference calls for it, its bicycle's owner retains control, but the taller race becomes the pedaler and the bike changes size accordingly while the smaller race sits on the cargo rack.
  --- Shared Umbrella : If the race pairing’s height difference calls for it, the owner of the umbrella retains control, and the umbrella goes in the hand of the taller race.
  
• An option could be added to disable skates and skateboards for people who don't want to see them (people using them would appear to be on foot with their emotes not showing for you).

P.S.: What else do you think could be made into “Fashion Mounts”? Do you think the community would be on board with this idea? Hopefully it wasn’t posted before.

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I’ll be adding your creative ideas in this here section

Inflatable Donut Pool Float

Suggested by:

• Pose #1 : Swimming (body through the donut)
• Pose #2 : Tanning (relaxing on top)
• Emote : Cocktail Sip (usable in pose #2)

[SassyAssassin]

I love you. YES!!!!!!!

[kevin_satron]

i really dont see shared umbrella worked as a mount, it's better if its an idle animation. other than that, it's perfect

[Petite]

i really dont see shared umbrella worked as a mount, it's better if its an idle animation. other than that, it's perfect

I'm sure they could work something out. Minions already follow you pretty closely after all. They could treat the character riding pillion sort of like a minion but with a very close max distance and the anchor point to the "driver's" left side.

[SturmChurro]

Yes to this, and also add what they are wearing as outfits.

[Renalt]

I support anything where I feel I can have a real interaction with someone and not pantomime actions.

[Thaciscokidd]

Skateboards :

• Jumping animations change to an Ollie
• Emote : Kickflip (useable when stationary or moving)

I never had the urge to grind all over Limsa Lominsa till this post.


But on topic I've always wanted a pool floatie or an inner tube in game.



You could even add some emotes to it.

[Petite]

I never had the urge to grind all over Limsa Lominsa till this post.


But on topic I've always wanted a pool floatie or an inner tube in game.



You could even add some emotes to it.

Damn. That's a good idea!

EDIT: I hope you don't mind. I added your suggestion to my opening post as I'll do with every other cool ideas people come up with. Fully credited of course!

[Deveryn]

This one for sure.

[TheMightyMollusk]

This just gave me a flashback to the old days of the internet. (Go on Youtube and look up "Pokemon Mindless Self Indulgence" to see it. Warning, contains NSFW language.)