Creature Handler Archive

Yeah to make mounts better I suggest the following advantages:

Sample resources while mounted

Scan for resources while mounted

Use special attacks while mounted (with some restrictions)

Come up with a chef food that lets you use gallop more often or increases the duration of gallop

Personaly I think mounts are neat but not worth it compaird to swoops. personaly I'd like to see some true CH only mounts.

1 I wana be able to ride a rancor. theres EU precident for it sence the witches of dathimer rode them.

2 I want some sort of flying creature as a mount. Agian I seem to recall this being in the EU at once point. think it was the han solo trilogy. Things like the ancient reptilian flyer I'v hung on to just for looks. the shape of it looks like it could handle a rider and its at least as fast if not faster than a swoop. I'd love to be able to ride that thing especialy if they dont slow it down. if they slowed it down then it would just be a novilty agian with no perpous.

I use my mount all the time. I have a CL30 Brackerset that I tamed. (Not BE'd at all) I like using a mount when doing missions because I group with my pets to get increased payout missions and it's a pain to group them, store them, pull out speeder, speed to location, camp, call pets, do mission.

Instead I just ride my mount out to my mission and never worry about camping at all. I'm going to have a BE'd mount made up very soon. Probably a CL60+ brackerset. That would be awesome. The only problem I see is that in patch 7 they are removing the camp restriction on calling pets. SOOOOO when Patch7 comes out mounts will be worthless then. But for now I love my Brackerset.

I use mounts all the time, mainly because they look good, and also because they are handy in a fight, but then again I normally use a dewback or a savage humbaba, and they're both good in a fight against low to mid level mission lair mobs. I'm partial to meatlump bashing, you see.

However, ever since the 24 Feb patch, my mounts have caught the vehicle disease of autostoring whenever the heck they feel like it when I'm not riding. Like in the middle of an attack. Since I'm not going against anything serious (meatlumps are rarely serious) it's not too much of an issue. If I were messing with Nyax cultists or Nightsisters, we might have a problem.

Message Edited by SioBabble on 02-26-2004 04:43 PM

I am not a CH, but a BE and the only time I use my mount is

1. when running back and forth in town and vehicle is decayed already, but I admit that if I make pets for friends they still rather have other shells than a mount. I cant blame em, they serve no purpose other than backup tank.

I agree tho any and all restrictions need to be removed to give them appeal, I am sure some will find ways to exploit it, but mounts are a novelty and even the cupa and bantha will be a just to have for a novelty. With camp restrictions being removed , players have no need even to use mounts really anymore, except if their speeder bites the dust and as a last ditch effort/

These are the newbie vehicles since speeder prices are high most times, but mounts need alot more spicing up

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Knocky wrote:

Have not ridden a mount since bikes were released.

Mounts only have one plus over vehicles, they dont decay. But since everyone and their alts use the shuttle exploit that is not much of a plus.

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I use mounts when hunting or searching for vendors. They don't blow past everything so fast that I am not sure what it was I just passed, yet they still can get me out of trouble, and I can shoot from them, which I can't do with vehicles (which doesn't make any sense either).

Jolandir

I forgot, I also would like to see flying mounts. They are in some of the books. They are especially known on Dathomir, so the devs could make it so only Dathomir flying creatures could do this, but hay the ability to see farther and to even shoot from above would be really cool. These could be a precursor to the flying fighters, bombers, etc. and have certain advantages they would not.

Jolandir