Quote Originally Posted by Paynekiller View Post
Making a 7.5mil mount the ONLY option to mount inside a single city would be... unnecessary to say the least, and I hope they don't do ever do that.
Point being, if you can buy the mount IN the city, and the city made a point of advertising that this exists, then it makes sense to be able to use just that mount in the city.

Problem comes back to allowing all the mounts inside a building. No building in the game lets you do that. The housing areas DO. Mounts and Minions take up character capacity (which is why you can't have both out.) If we allow mounts everywhere then players will demand to use flying mounts inside limsa lominsa and Uldah, when these areas were not designed to have mounts, let alone flight. Yet you can clearly see they still have the loading tunnels from 1.0, which means they likely have unresolvable out-of-bounds areas. If the developers ever restore the seamlessness of the original game, particularly when it comes to the three cities and Ishgard, then they will have to again ask why players can't use mounts in Limsa, Gridania and Ishgard when they are clearly outdoors-oriented maps while Uldah is mostly indoors.

The way i'd fix that to begin with is to just have one-mount-per-city that acts as a personal transport mount so that flight/ground movement is possible at level 1. If you buy the mount you can use it outside.