Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Friday Feature Mounts Revealed
Just what we need....
20Imps trolling the wastelands ofTatooine, each with 3 AT-STs behind them.....Joy.
I haven't seen many posts touching on this issue, but I just wanted to bring it up again. I hope to see these new creature mounts be a collaborative effort among many different professions. CHs get the pets, tailors make the saddles, armorsmiths add armor, chefs make food, BEs make medicine, maybe even smugglers making stims for the mounts...the possibilites are great. Having a mount be a group effort builds bonds between crafters, improves the economy and makes them a more realistic product rather than having one profession corner the market...Idoubtcar manufacturers actually have its own employees mining the materials it uses.
Thanks for hearing me out. Great work on bringing these mounts out too. Anything to make running to my harvesters less of a chore is a fine idea to me.
Maile Insulis ~ Uniform Marshal (Shadowfire)
Im thinking I might be wasting my time and probally bringing a ton of Flames at my self by posting this.
First off Know I did not read threw all 13 pages, I did skim threw but I didnt read EVERY post. So if this is a re-post I am sorry. I read some where else a big thing for the developers is the amount of disposable income the player base has in SWG. Something like 1 of every 2 credits goes into a bank and never comes out. Which in turn lowers the Value of the credit in SWG (this is why I have to pay 50k for a flamethrower). I know this seems completly un-related to mounts but this is your (the devs) chance to fix this. Dont make me (A Master CH/commando) able to tame and sell mounts. I can tell you now I will have more money then I could ever hope for at that point. Dont make it so I have to sell the pets to people and then they have to go to a talior to make the mount, cause then me and my friend Mrs. Talior are going to both be rich! Make it so players have to go to a NPC stable's and buy the mounts from NPC.This will drain the economy of excese credits not just move those excess credits from one player to another. Also dont just give them away, the benefit Im getting is HUGE make the cost of it huge as well. If I dont have to drop 100-150k for one of these I will be let down(once the player expendable income comes down lower the price *a bit). Please DEV's dont mess this one up!! Over all this is a chance to lower the cost of everything in the game. Come on people tell the DEV's what you want.
Any replys would be wonderfull I want to know the other players out theres thoughts as well with DEV's thoughts!
Fernus-"If you look at the 6 mounts you'll see there are actually only 3 models there with slightly different skins and a few polygons different. Obviously those were chose for the most "bang for the buck". Batha is a totally different model and the bantha is a "one off" model (there isn't anything that uses the same structure as the bantha). "
brilliant observation, i noticed this myself when i looked at the animals to be used as mounts, can everyone use the mounts or is it a Ch only thing? My suggestion here is to make it so everyone can use mounts (at least untill speeders and such come in) and to give the CH's benefits while they are mounted such as further enhanced speed beyond that of a normal mount and the ability to attack while mounted etc...agree? disagree?
Atisko wrote:
Im thinking I might be wasting my time and probally bringing a ton of Flames at my self by posting this.
First off Know I did not read threw all 13 pages, I did skim threw but I didnt read EVERY post. So if this is a re-post I am sorry. I read some where else a big thing for the developers is the amount of disposable income the player base has in SWG. Something like 1 of every 2 credits goes into a bank and never comes out. Which in turn lowers the Value of the credit in SWG (this is why I have to pay 50k for a flamethrower). I know this seems completly un-related to mounts but this is your (the devs) chance to fix this. Dont make me (A Master CH/commando) able to tame and sell mounts. I can tell you now I will have more money then I could ever hope for at that point. Dont make it so I have to sell the pets to people and then they have to go to a talior to make the mount, cause then me and my friend Mrs. Talior are going to both be rich! Make it so players have to go to a NPC stable's and buy the mounts from NPC.This will drain the economy of excese credits not just move those excess credits from one player to another. Also dont just give them away, the benefit Im getting is HUGE make the cost of it huge as well. If I dont have to drop 100-150k for one of these I will be let down(once the player expendable income comes down lower the price *a bit). Please DEV's dont mess this one up!! Over all this is a chance to lower the cost of everything in the game. Come on people tell the DEV's what you want.
Any replys would be wonderfull I want to know the other players out theres thoughts as well with DEV's thoughts!
Bahhh...I'm not gonna flame u, but I think u only speak for a minority when u imply that everyone has endless tons of credits! Having started out as a BE and not having the opportunity to partake in any exploits, my bank account is in the low six-figures and not even sufficient to buy a top of the line carbine or rifle.
Most BEs I know dont have tons of cash like CHs, since we only have a specific 34 types of pets to sell, and 20% are bugged while only 5-6 species are actually in demand by the general populace. Tissues suck crap since the good stuff all have missing ingreidients.
So if u dont want to sell mounts, I can assure u that many BEs do 
Awesome I am excited about being able to ride Skyfaulker (my Dewback)!
*Ping*
taallyn wrote:
You know, people's biggest complaints about SWG stem from it not feeling very "Stars Warsy". That's something the Devs have said they are "working" on. So, when a major new system like mounts is introduced, why are a couple of the most "Star Warsy" creature mounts now present? Bantha and Tauntons/CU-Pa's are much more recognizable to Stars Wars fans the some of the creatures in this group. Of those six creature mounts, only two of them could be considered "Star Warsy".Those being the Dewback and the Kaadu since those are stone in the movies. However, banthas were in Episode IV (Tusken Raiders dumped on them after Obi Wan scarred them away from Luke), while Tauntons were very prominent in Episode V. It is really disappointing that those creatures aren't included in the mounts introduction update. Including those two creatures would have done so much to improve the "Star Warsy" atmosphere that many people feel is lacking in SWG.
taunton? give me a break thats a cold weaither animal only found on hoth nimrod oh that would give me the starwars fell alright to see a white taunton on tatooine .............................not man just shut up and waith for them to add hoth as a planet first
Cowoth-
This is my exact point you state you have low 6 fiquires and cant afford to buy a high level Carbine, this is because there are players out there that have MILLIONS of credits. If there were players able to buy a flamethrower for the 50k the cheap ones on my server go for what do you think the weapon smiths would then be forced to do? LOWER THEIR PRICES! Which in turn willl be good for everyone involved.
As a side note I found my Jedi Holocron and it is forceding me to turn Bio-Eng which has got to be the worst profession in the game!