Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
If you notice my use of the word 'teh' in my post, you'll see that it was obviously a joke. In actual fact, I would LOVE flying. I was just making fun of those who have a fear of novel things, such as flying mounts, simply because such things were not included in FFXI.

The issue with flying mounts which I can see is to do with limitations of the game engine and definitely not the idea. Crossing zone boundaries such as the one between thanalan and the Black Shroud, or the loading in of several areas, might be tricky if you could bypass several of the strategically placed zoning tunnels which SE put in there.

Anyways, I think all forms of motion are needed. Climbing, swimming, jumping. I am not saying jumping takes precedence over the others, but you can't climb or swim over a gap. And you can't fail an automatic jump, so it removes the possibility of failure from the equation when exploring. Again, it puts you on rails and a predetermined path; things which destroy the sense of exploration.
I was not smacking you because I thought you were making fun of my post, just slapped it up there cause it was the last post I read.

Now I do not have a problem with jumping a gap. That's a great example. I still do not believe we should have the jump feature a manual task only. I can see down the line of maybe a potential mission where you have to jump gaps in the road. Maybe when you come close to a gap you can smack the space bar at the right interval to clear the jump? If you hit it at the wrong time, you could fall in the hole and die.

Still not enough cause to have a manual jump button. It would simply be abused.