Creature Handler Archive
Thread: A idea to make people use mounts instead of vehicles?
Merendel wrote:
well on dath you already can bairly ride a vehicle sence half the planet consists of 89 degree slopes. Personaly I'd like a few specific flying mobs introduced as CH only mounts sence they are fast as a swoop and go up hills just as fast as across level ground. either that or one of the cat skins.
Its easy to get around dath on a vehicle, you just have to learn to take the slopes at an angle. Basically, you do everything you can to preserve your speed, even if it means going in the wrong direction. Also, its "since" not "sence."
/agree with Merendel
Some flying mounts would be awsome. It would make mounts viable again-I have an aged lantern bird that's as fast as a speederbike, if not faster.
Making vehicle restrictions terrain specific would just tick people off. As an example, imagine having to whip your dewback out everytime you crossed a bady of water on Corellia (I'm not saying that vehicles would/should be banned from use on water).
What would make sense AND make mounts more viable is to prohibit the use of vehicles on Dathomir and Endor (at the least). This would have the simultaneous effects of making mounts MUCH more desirable and bringing some of the danger back to traversing these planets.
I agree with 2ndSun. The only advantage mounts have over vehicles is that we can still do combat from their backs when not galloping. Increasing combat effectiveness (give us our specialattacksand/or let the pet attack) would make them a bit more attractive in my opinion. Giving them more speed though, with any kind of combat, will turn mount riders into kiters a la EQ's SoW.
No speederbikes on Endor? That.. That's just unholy after seeing ROTJ!
MrCantaloupe wrote:/agree with Merendel
Some flying mounts would be awsome. It would make mounts viable again- I have an aged lantern bird that's as fast as a speederbike, if not faster.
Agree with both. Had a PekoPeko (still have him
on the off chance they made a flying mount. Have a lantern bird too -Indene
/agree with 2ndSun
With this added, on advanced planets vehicles don't work. Or on advanced planets your vehicle takes so much damage it isn't worth taking out. Or on advanced planets have vehicles for rent that are like ATV's slower and therefore more vunerable to attack.
These "advanced" planets are supposed to be like almost unliveable, yet we see guys zipping through Rancors etc with no fear. So if on the advanced planets your mount was much much better than a vehicle, they would become viable, and when you are on the mounts home planet it gets a + because that's where it is from.
Will it tick people off, probably, but hey we've been irritated since December.
i think people would use mounts more if while we are riding them they can attack, lets face it, creatures are just slower than speeders so they arnt really for getting us places, but if we could mount them and they could attack it would be fun. it would also help give us defences if we cant attack or anything wile on them, but we cant get hit either, it would give creature handlers some defences so people just dont skip the pet and go right for you.
this probably wont be very usefull in pvp right now since pets get killed so easily and barely do damage to anyone (especially if that person is buffed with armor) but maybe if our pets get better and we could ride rancors some day this would be cool