Shouldn't different mounts have different speeds (or other similar attributes)?

[oda]

I like the way it is now -- I can pick whatever mount I find aesthetically pleasing (based on gear I'm wearing or whatever) and not have to worry about slower/faster mount speeds.

[Bouteiller]

I'm sure you have all the friends.

I know it's crazy to imagine what someone with confidence is like in person, but yeah, you'd be amazed how many people really enjoy someone with an opinion and the gumption to defend it.

What you want is purely I'm a bigger gamer than you, "this is my epeen please worship me in the only realm I can do well in." Simply having different mounts is enough, no need to add speed to it. The last thing we need are fate humpers outrunning the rest of us.

[JPPILIP]

Worst idea ever mounts should stay the way they are its bad enough that atm we all look alike at a certain lvl but now you want us all riding the same mount.

[duki]

I know it's crazy to imagine what someone with confidence is like in person, but yeah, you'd be amazed how many people really enjoy someone with an opinion and the gumption to defend it.

What you want is purely I'm a bigger gamer than you, "this is my epeen please worship me in the only realm I can do well in." Simply having different mounts is enough, no need to add speed to it. The last thing we need are fate humpers outrunning the rest of us.

If you would have used this defense instead of the "you're stupid, I'm right", I would have been fine with that.

[Bouteiller]

If you would have used this defense instead of the "you're stupid, I'm right", I would have been fine with that.

The idea was stupid. It still is in fact. You should probably accept that sometimes you're gonna say/type stupid things and then get called out on them. Helps with life.

[Dazusu]

Nope - Yoshi wants everything and everyone the same, no positives no negatives.

This game is going to get so boring under this mentality... There's no reason to "want to get further", everything is so samey...

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Pretty sure speed is still based on level of character.

[Gilraen]

Your speed, be it on a mount or on foot, is a fixed value. This is to keep things fair between the races and the mounts. I mean, being elezen, I should by all rights be by and far faster than a lalafell. But all things being MMO, that would put lalafell players at a disadvantage right out of the gate considering you don't even get the ability to use even vanity mounts until you can use a company chocobo. It's all about keeping things fair for all.

[Infernodox]

If it makes you feel any better, just use the Magitek mount and you'll feel like you're going 50% slower (compared to the courel for example)

[Fyrebrand]

I'm sure (I hope?) this is on the way, but just in case... it only makes sense that the harder the mount is to acquire, the better it is; not just visually.

E.g.,

• Choco - 1x Speed
• Coeurl - 1.2x Speed
• Magitek - 1.5x Speed
• etc.

yay/nay?

For one thing, this is a form of Pay-to-Win (for coeurl, at least... maybe goobue and that flying eyeball too, depending how you look at it).
For another, instead of letting players just pick whatever mount they like the most, it encourages people to just go with the fastest option. You'll just see everybody riding around on the same thing.
They might introduce faster mounts later on, but right after launch isn't the time to do it. Maybe, if they want to have rewards later on that let you go faster, a better way to do it would be to just have a (slightly) faster riding "skill," that applies to any mount you choose? You still get the speed advantage, but it doesn't make any of the mount options obsolete.