I still believe that the mount system will one day rise up from the ashes of neglect and become that desired and deserved system that it should be. When this happens, I hope they find this post in the archives.

Notable ideas-

Riders being able to join into a group with a leader, as pedestrians can, increasing functionality and RP potential.

Horses able to recieve damage and when they get hurt too badly they will bolt back to the stable. No horse deaths eliminate alot of headaches.

Rentable wagons that can be hitched to a mount and carry bundles, gems, ores, and friends.

Expanding breeds of horses and types of mounts.

A tack room that will store a rider's gear.

Bonus to combats and perception.

I can only hope and wait.

I like all of these suggestions. Most of all this one:

>Expanding breeds of horses and types of mounts.

I'm still waiting for the "giant chicken" mount.

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>With your abilities you can easily ride a horse from your current location to:

Interesting idea.

I can see some issues, not all of them a big deal, but they should probably be discussed.

1) bypassing obstacles (mud, webs, etc)
2) bypassing invasion creatures
3) reducing the usefulness of trails/moongates
4) bypassing climb/swims

I think if they put it on a similar system to caravans and their autolead section it would knock off many of the issues.

I'm just having a hard time imagining how you could keep it useful time wise and not basically get another Ranger Trail system.

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wtb chocobo

If you guys get those things, I get Ultima on Empaths.

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>>If you get a Chocobo, I want a buster sword.

And WMs can summon Knights of the Round for an attack with a 300 second roundtime?

>>I can see some issues, not all of them a big deal, but they should probably be discussed.

Eh, all this means is that the destination lists need to be thought out. It would be fun to have it work similar to balloons/the crossing-riverhaven wagons/sea mammoths

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>>Yeah, I guess the main problem is that it really isn't necessary with travel scripts.

Even if you made mounts the exact same, timewise, as travel scripting, as long as they weren't buggy or full of annoyances people would love them. People like having that kind of flavor to add to their character.


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I would actually take my horse out and use him for travel if it wasn't a hassle.

First up there are a couple of things that are running through my head that I want to say but not sure if its actually available, if so, I apologise in advance.

Personally I RP with me horse, having jousted with him a few times I like the idea of having to exercise the horse and clean him down, perhaps a method to allow other people to care for your horse, say you take on a squire of sorts, and maybe instead of a horse based skill being tied to Outdoorsmanship have Horsemanship.

An expansion on the horse group situ; it would make life interesting if a group of mounted people are able to form a battle-line, the leader of the group then able to initiate a charge where the battle-line would "sweep" though a room, or series of rooms (perhaps with a max range) and each creature has the chance of taking damage from the rider or being trampled by the horse itself. Of course on the flip side if the horse is not wearing any barding then expect damage not to mention any reactionary damage from whatever you are charging plus there is always the chance for that and/or being thrown off.

A further expansion on this would be the ability to PLANT your polearm, where you stick the butt in the ground and angle it out as an anti-charge defence.

For visual stimulus see LOTR:RotK battle for Gondor when Rohan turn up and charge in. For a brilliant example of planting a steak/polearm see 13th Warrior; "Luck will often aid a man if his courage holds!" (or something like that)

A side thought based on making a horse more relevant to travelling, Based on Stamina and Strength v. Weight and Encumbrance have maximum number of rooms you can move before you get a slight RT for being a little tired, this is why knights used a horse, because being in full plate is bloody hard work and tiring. During a battle re-enactment parade around a town, we had been walking for about 30 min to an hour we were called to a halt and I watched a guy in full plate collapse with heat exhaustion, anyway a thought.

Maybe each guild could have a speciality while on a horse, Paladins melee and charge attacks, Rangers archery and a chance to flee, etc

Horses are:

Not very useful
Very inconvenient to use
Take lots of 'upkeep' via many commands, rt and tools (I.E something that people address via scripts generally).

As I understand, no one wants to touch horses, so I wouldnt hold my breath about them getting fixed anytime soon. Sad since it seems like a great opportunity for the game, as well as rangers/paladins who were supposed to get new systems to work off them ontop of the current ones.

>>chocobo

I believe there is a gidii mount

>>stuff and stuff

Yeah, combat engagement while mounted has always been a bit weird. Some of the hurdles that you can't lead them through too.

And my nightmare's too wild for magic or even regular combat(no brawling or melee weapons), I can still throw a weapon though. I don't think the hart's are that limited or any of the other special mounts?

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