A mounts matter

[SodRansom]

Except it really doesnt sum anything up. Mounts being paramount isnt something restricted to racing games. If you go into war with a chocobo or if you go into war with a tank and the behave the same.. damn that's a silly idea - and more particularly that's horrible rp, and thus rpg.

And no, just because there are stats doesnt mean everyone will use the same mount. There are different stats and classes for the game (pld, thf, blm, ect, ect) and not everyone uses the same class. Introduction of stats doesnt have to mean everyone chooses the same thing.

Finally I disagree making a game more rpg like and less Designer Fashion for a game titled an mmorpg is a waste of resources, though I would say its a waste of resources to design something distinctly at odds with what the game is titled (rpg). A wild living breathing existent place because it has qualities as such - not a vapor of meaningless layers.
I really dont want to see SE lose sight of whats an RPG in order to succumb to all this vanity nonsense.

Totally agree with you. This is after all a mmoRPG. I thought you had some good ideas. Stuff that exists just because "it looks good" feels so empty to me, and doesn't make as much sense from a role playing perspective. It would make sense if there was a different experience for riding different mounts. Riding a chocobo should be different than riding a coeurl. It doesn't have to be complex. Even if it's just different movement speed I think that'd be great.

[PinkamenaDiane]

I want a pony like in "The Hobbit".

[Kirito]

I feel like mounts should only be for design... that will ensure that everyone will use a mount based on his or her taste... Instead of giving mounts effects, how about giving chocobo levels, which you can either raise by taking care of it at the stables or, if they can fight, raise by fights... If we give chocobo levels they don't need to be till 50 it could be till like lvl 10... (if a lot of needed exp)

[JillyBean]

I always thought Goobs should be slower but stronger than chocos. Maybe even impossible to be knocked off of, or much less likely.

[Elexia]

Pretty sure they said all mounts would basically be the same and just have aesthetic differences. Making them with varied stats would then cause them to throw them into content and we'll end up having to do content to get "the best mounts" and it's just going to be messy.

[Shougun]

Pretty sure they said all mounts would basically be the same and just have aesthetic differences. Making them with varied stats would then cause them to throw them into content and we'll end up having to do content to get "the best mounts" and it's just going to be messy.

Yeah they did say they will all be the same. Nothing unique about any of them except for "looks".

I assume there is still going to be content for mounts - though no one is really going to care about them except for which color matches their outfit or most "epic" looking.

:/

[Zenaku]

I thought the idea was Chocobo are our main mounts and can fight and have a tree system for healer,tank,dps and other mounts are just for show does noting but look pretty.

[Pseudopsia]

Interesting, however I say put this on the back burner. There's so much more important things to get done first.

[Shougun]

I thought the idea was Chocobo are our main mounts and can fight and have a tree system for healer,tank,dps and other mounts are just for show does noting but look pretty.

It was. I'm saying thats quite boring and not very rpg like. Before people say vanity is rpg, its not really. Turtle tank running max speed makes no role playing sense (or all mounts being the same for that matter- anti rpg logic).

Interesting, however I say put this on the back burner. There's so much more important things to get done first.

Agreed :P - its not priority thats for sure.

[Kirito]

I thought the idea was Chocobo are our main mounts and can fight and have a tree system for healer,tank,dps and other mounts are just for show does noting but look pretty.

Is this with response to Kallivis or are you explaining Yoshida's reasoning.

If you are trying to explain Yoshida reasoning for mounts then I don't agree... I think mounts are really only for show and to increase movement speed (this is not to say that some mounts should be faster than others)...

Yoshida said he wanted to make it so that chocobo could fight (I think)... which means that he might give mounts (not the clothing but the actual beasts) different stats that we can raise (chocobo higher evasion and dex than goobue, but goobue higher hp and str than chocobo)...

although now that I think about it, it would make sense that we could give chocobo armor to better defend if they fight but they would probably decrease movement speed rather than increase it since it would probably be heavier and meant for fighting only...