Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Mounts!
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Uri-Gellar
Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:21 am
#1
Is it just me or do other people think that If creature mounts were to be used more often the game will begin to feel more star wars like?
Imagine 20 people all riding into a base raid on mounts. That would be amazing.
Maybe they need to increase the costs to repair speeder bikes or something?
Any other ideas on how to make people use mounts more?
Imagine 20 people all riding into a base raid on mounts. That would be amazing.
Maybe they need to increase the costs to repair speeder bikes or something?
Any other ideas on how to make people use mounts more?
Vicotnik
Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:00 am
#3
Maybe they will be more viable after the CU. The reason mounts aren't used in combat is because we can't use specials on them, after the CU I believe we won't be able to spam specials like we do now... Maybe then the mounts will be of some use.
They will obviously never rival speeders for transportation though.
ana-mo-cara
Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:16 am
#4
Actually its worse then that. Mounts throw off your ability to evade attacks. Obviously a devs brilliant idea. All I know is If I catch a tka on a mount and i use my llc I am not missing all that much.
Why do vehicles have the advantage they go faster for one. Nothing can hit you on a vehicle. You can store infinite vehicles. You have more durability on a vehicle. The maintanance costs are just a joke.
What mounts need.
Their top level knocked up 2 or 3 points. In other words make them worthy as creature pets. Droids and faction npcs being stronger. A number of chs have begged for this over the year seeing as the attack dog part of a mount is totally worthless.
Increase the gallop speed on mounts. It should actually be faster then a speeder goes, because the player is limited in its use.
Allow large mounts to carry multiple players. A brackasette could handle four or five people easily.
Allow mount customization. It may look a bit odd but a striped carrion spat would be cool.
Allow pets to special while the player is rideing on them. This alone would get people interested.
majorslappy
Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:09 am
#5
How about a lootable item that you can use to make a normally non-mountable creature into a mount?
ShareDaje
Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:20 pm
#8
As a MCH and MBE i love using my mounts....granted there are drawbacks (not as fast as a speeder, requires feeding after intense battle, not being able to use specials...ect.) As a MBE (pet specialist) i would love to have more ppl come to me with request for mounts....as it is i do a pretty good business....but i would love to see say ( a MCH only being able to use a Rancor as a mount) - this is a feasible idea as the Natives of dathomir use the rancors this way. As a BE i can specialize the color of a pet but not the markings (another cool idea). If possible one day flying mounts............./sigh......doubt i'll live to see that. and i agree that certain pets should have certain advantges in their native worlds....
Serpantes
Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:26 pm
#9
This could be fixed in a fun way.
First Devs need to make a gun that needs to be on a stationary stand then make armor for mounts and then finaly make teh gun mountable on a mount . Imagine a full grown fallumpaset i think thats what those giant things are called then picture a big rocket launcher, laser cannon or what ever on its back. I can see these as being the new tanks of teh battle feild. But you would need to be a master CH and master Marksman to use it but i think it would be awesome
First Devs need to make a gun that needs to be on a stationary stand then make armor for mounts and then finaly make teh gun mountable on a mount . Imagine a full grown fallumpaset i think thats what those giant things are called then picture a big rocket launcher, laser cannon or what ever on its back. I can see these as being the new tanks of teh battle feild. But you would need to be a master CH and master Marksman to use it but i think it would be awesome
Jagii
Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:21 pm
#10
Here are some ideas to make mounts more popular:
- Along the lines of customization:
Allow mounts to wear clothes or armor?
Allow mounts to wear weapons?
Maybe these should be nonfunctional, but at least you get a pet that might look cooler.
- Let players use special attacks on mounts.
- Allow squad leaders, creature handlers, scouts, and rangers (any other professions I miss?) to get certain bonuses while using mounts. Maybe using a certain mount increases a ranger's tracking abilities, increases the effectiveness of mask scent, can attract or repel certain creatures or NPCs, etc. Perhaps a high level character with scout abilities can make the mount go faster than when a non-scout uses them?
- Allow mounts to store items. I don't know how'd you prevent them from just being used as storage droids, though.
- Make their speeds faster. Faster on certain terrain types, faster on native planets.
Just a few simple ideas.
= Andrew
Chilastra.Palacek
- Along the lines of customization:
Allow mounts to wear clothes or armor?
Allow mounts to wear weapons?
Maybe these should be nonfunctional, but at least you get a pet that might look cooler.
- Let players use special attacks on mounts.
- Allow squad leaders, creature handlers, scouts, and rangers (any other professions I miss?) to get certain bonuses while using mounts. Maybe using a certain mount increases a ranger's tracking abilities, increases the effectiveness of mask scent, can attract or repel certain creatures or NPCs, etc. Perhaps a high level character with scout abilities can make the mount go faster than when a non-scout uses them?
- Allow mounts to store items. I don't know how'd you prevent them from just being used as storage droids, though.
- Make their speeds faster. Faster on certain terrain types, faster on native planets.
Just a few simple ideas.
= Andrew
Chilastra.Palacek
IZenegade
Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:48 am
#11
I think there needs to be many fixes to make mounts viable. For one thing, traveling to different planets is really easy (and much easier with JTL). I personally do not think a Kaadu can survive long in the Tatooine desert (at least during the day). Maybe creatures have disadvantages/advantages on certain planets? For instance, Dewbacks/banthas cannot swim, Kaadus will run incredibly fast on flats, Cu Pas can traverse mountains much better than everything else (good for mountainous places like NW Corellia, Tatooine badlands, Mountain ranges of Lok, etc.). BTW, mounts can never beat the speed of vehicles, but unlike a vehicle they do not require maintenance. Maybe if vehicles were more fragile in certain situations (Like fuel consumption added on) or they took damage when running head on into a building (whereas a creature will naturally stop). I guess we are just calling for more realism.
DitahCotton
Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:29 am
#12
Jagii wrote:
Here are some ideas to make mounts more popular:
- Along the lines of customization:
Allow mounts to wear clothes or armor?
Allow mounts to wear weapons?
Maybe these should be nonfunctional, but at least you get a pet that might look cooler.
- Let players use special attacks on mounts.
- Allow squad leaders, creature handlers, scouts, and rangers (any other professions I miss?) to get certain bonuses while using mounts. Maybe using a certain mount increases a ranger's tracking abilities, increases the effectiveness of mask scent, can attract or repel certain creatures or NPCs, etc. Perhaps a high level character with scout abilities can make the mount go faster than when a non-scout uses them?
- Allow mounts to store items. I don't know how'd you prevent them from just being used as storage droids, though.
- Make their speeds faster. Faster on certain terrain types, faster on native planets.
Just a few simple ideas.
= Andrew
Chilastra.Palacek
Dear god no! Pets with sunglasses? Don't let this turn into America's Funniest Home Videos! 
Vicotnik
Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:21 am
#13
I would be more worried about dewbacks with hawtpants ratherthan sunglasses...
DitahCotton wrote:
Dear god no! Pets with sunglasses? Don't let this turn into America's Funniest Home Videos!
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