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Thread: Special Mount Poll
) that would make this feel like a polished class. 
I think flying mounts would be fantastic too, but I can't see them giving them to us.
Vertexon wrote:I'm working on writing a document to explain the current and desired direction of Mounts in SWG (largely using feedback from the forum and from my "Let's Talk About Mounts" thread from a while back).Hypothetically speaking, let's say the Devs introduced a real awesome new mount (flier, cat, kliknik, whatever). Would you...(A) Want everyone to be able to get one, so there would be a market for selling to non-CHs(B) Want to keep it as a CH-only perk(C) Want to keep it as a high level/Master CH only perkThis is just hypothetical, to help me with my writing. No developer intentions regarding mounts should be inferred.
A,B and C
There should be a few of mountable fliers (new mounts) that come with a wide levelrange. Some level 10, some in midrange, and some in highrange. That way everyone would be satisfied. Would make me sad to tell a noob/non-ch that he can't get one of these new cool mounts, because there are no lowlevel versions of them. But a MCH only mount would definitely rule, just 1 or 2 species. How would i love to ride on a kimo or a rept flier.
Message Edited by VempireX on 08-13-2004 04:43 AM
Vertexon wrote:
I'm working on writing a document to explain the current and desired direction of Mounts in SWG (largely using feedback from the forum and from my "Let's Talk About Mounts" thread from a while back).
Hypothetically speaking,let's saythe Devs introduced a real awesome new mount (flier, cat, kliknik, whatever). Would you...
(A) Want everyone to be able to get one, so there would be a market for selling to non-CHs
(B) Want to keep it as a CH-only perk
(C) Want to keep it as a high level/Master CH only perk
This is just hypothetical, to help me with my writing. No developer intentions regarding mounts should be inferred.
i think that there are many other alterations that have to be made to the current mount system to make it viable and adding new mounts just wont change that fact, look what happened when cu pa and bantha's were made mounts, everyone wanted one for a about a week and then after that.....
at the moment the vast majority of players (CH's included) just see their mounts as back up speeders and very little else. they have to be given some form of functionality that will make them appealing to players. yes you can fight whilst on a mount but as your mount slows down to walking speed when that happens AND you cant use specials, fighting from a mount is more of a handicap than an advantage. also looking at it from a pure numbers point of veiw theres very little reason for a non-ch to use anything other than a carrion spat. its the fastest and toughest pet. whilst i think that there should be a 'general' pet it should always be at least the second best at everything. the ideal situation should be something like 'yes the spat is fast but the kaadu is much faster, yes the spat does a lot of damage but not as much as the bol, and yes it has good HAM but not as much as the brack etc. whilst this doesnt increase the functionaltiy of mounts it does at the very least create some variety.
so what should the new functionality be? these forums are full of dozens of great ideas, saddles, armour, utility mounts, multi person mounts, stat mod petsetc, so its not worth repeating them all here. so i'll shut up with this little rant and actualy get round to answering the question!
A, B or C? all three actualy.
A, id love to see more mounts to sell to a few noobs that dont actualy realise that mounts or more or less useless. keeps the pennies rolling in.
B, a CH-only pet, and by this i hope you mean a pet whos 'skin' cant be made by a BE and reduced down to non-ch levels as all currnet mounts can, yeah id love to see this too, at about the cl 20 range a flying mount would be a nice reward. nothing special about it aside that it can fly and naturaly would be damn fast (x34 speed minimum)
C, a master CH mount. the bull rancor is the obvious answer, its been a dream of every ch for as long as i can remember!
i think i also have to let my natural and unquenchable pessimism for CH creep back in tho.... this isnt going to happen. in 6 months maybe they'll let us mount brackasets. maybe. but that'll be about it.
-Non-CH: Mount with speed at Landspeeder level
-Novice CH: Mount with speed at Speederbike level
-MCH: Mount with speed at Swoop level
Message Edited by VempireX on 08-14-2004 07:43 AM
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spreadsheet wrote:
VERT anything on this?
No information on potential new mounts yet, beyond what was said in a fansite Dev chat (not the recent Stratics one... but I think the one before that) about how the Devs hope to add new mounts at some point.
Mounts in general need to be a bit faster, my Cu Pa seems to travel at a reasonable speed but my Dewback is pretty sluggish and I had to shoot my Bantha as I figured it had to be lame. As a Rifleman/Ch there is basically nothing that I could make and sell - make level 10 mounts go pretty much as fast as an X34 and suddenly there would be a market to me selling these in Mos Eisley etc. A lot of ppl would be happy to pay 10k for a mount that is useable for it's intended purpose. Also, a bit more room for stored pets would be good so we have room to grow say 6 lvl 10 pets to be able to sell on at a time. Sure we don't need resources but we still have to find/tame/train the babies and then wait for them to mature.
There are plenty more creatures that should and could be mountable, and obviously many of these should be CH only perks.
