Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Some new (or old) ideas for mounts.
Roporin wrote:
Consider this too - with a flying mount, how high would the creature handler be able to go? high enough to avoid melee attacks? ranged attacks? Would be not so good if a CH could sit 64m off the ground whilst shooting some mob with a special that could only do melee attacks.
TottDonetta wrote:
as i recall when the devs were asked about flying mounts they assumed we wanted a true flying vehicle (as opposed to one that just looks like its flying cos no part of the creatures animation touches the ground.) and thats why they totaly nixed the idea. look how long it took for them to allow us to move furiture up and down!!
A fair enough point. 
I hope I'm not hoping too much thinking of when JTL comes around that instead of it being just detached from the main game where you go into space via a loading screen as per travelling between planets but that it will be fully integrated so that you can take your ship up into space.. hmm.
If it was truly integrated, then I guess it wouldn't be too hard for the devs to then apply "flight" to certain mounts (obviously there would be have to be limits for our flying mounts vs space ships).
Rop.
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is suprised when others believe him."
Roporin wrote:
A fair enough point.
Rop.
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is suprised when others believe him."
yes, your hoping for too much. sorry. when JTL goes live we'll be using the starship terminals that can already be found in the starports and then after a loading screen we'll be inour ships.
as i say to everyone in game - please dont get too excited about JTL - it is the same guys that made the current bug free emotional roller-coaster ride of grind and delivery/destroy missions we all love now. it may be ok at start but just wait until someone like TH takes the rightous nerfbat of 'balance' to it. ok pessimism mode deactivated.
-Elder Medic-- Allow people to perform more actions while mounted (craft, areatrack, mask scent, etc.)
- Eliminate the gallop timer entirely, and make gallop the default mode for a mount, i.e., the "travel mode" - hitting /stopgallop would put the mount into its "battle mode" during which it slows down for combat, etc.
- About the item holding idea - scale it with the physical size of the mount instead of the CL (i.e. savage humbaba can store 20 items, carrion spat can carry 5) to compensate for the lower gallop speed
