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Mounts - The Key to Happiness
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Hi,
I am excited to witness Ashes of Creation unfolding. I have been a gamer since my husband introduced me to MMORPG games over ten ago. Since then, I have played many different games for brief periods of time and one for ten years now.
One of the key components in a game for me are the mounts. I love fashion so I always select a mount that not only has amazing stats, but it also has the appearance of matching my current outfit.
Now to hearts greatest desire, I have one request regarding mounts. I love horses and I love flying mounts, so if you have flying mounts, can you please give us the option to take the look of our favorite steed and have it with wings to fly? Or lol, give us fairy dust to make it fly? Anyway, the one thing I have found disappointing in all of the games I have played so far is that the game may have amazing ground mounts, but when they take to the air, the devs create a mount that is not nearly as realistic nor as pretty as the ground mount.
For example, one of the runic stallions, with wings added on would be an amazing flying mount. Far superior to any of the mounts with wings I have seen pictured so far for AoC.
I know how important mounts may seen superficial to some, but it is an area of importance to me and there were quite a few games I simply quit playing because I just couldn't take the ugly mounts any more. I love your runic stallions which is the primary reason I pledged in the Kickstarter, but I will be so sad if flying mounts become available at a certain level and I have to downgrade the look of my mount just so I can fly.
By the way, I think it is wonderful that you are giving us a place to share our thoughts as you develop the game. Kudos to all of the Ashes of Creation Devs for that!
Thank you for listening,
Shakacon
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So as you can see the mounts are very high fantasy ^^
Also Flying will be restricted to the very few - for the kings and queens of nodes and the lucky few that find a rare dragon egg with a time limited mount
Thank you for the pictures. Those are interesting mounts, but I do not see some of the mounts featured in the Kickstarters there, such as the Runic Stallion, Radiant Stallion or Midnight Mare. I have seen images online for the Runic Stallion, but not the other two. Would you happen to have pictures of those you could post?
Are the ones you pictured above just the flying mounts or a mixture of both? I ask because the elephant above appears to be a ground mount only (he definitely doesn't look like dumbo /smile).
The flying dragons look cool, better than any mounts I have seen on most MMORPGs, but it would be nice to have some form of Pegasus or flying horse represented... You know, a horse that flies is totally a magical creature.
Although they have wings I don't think they will fly
Pegasus type mounts would be cool but personally not for me xD
Thanks for the cool photos, Lexmax. They are quite spectacular.
Very true, Gravity and Wizard. Taming my own mounts or pets would be quite fun. But I am happy with my runic stallion I already have waiting for me from my kickstarter pledge. I do so love having a mount from day one.
It's just that I enjoy collecting mounts, so I look forward to all of the ways I can get additional mounts.
The Leaders of a metropolis will get a dragon to fly as a symbol of office.
These leaders are chosen through means appropriate to science, religion, militancy and economics.
As a symbol of office they come with the job and only the job.
The other flying mounts will be gliders only. They will glide at/near ground level so that they can not be used to bypass combat and gameplay.
Might as well shoot for the moon....can I haz a doomwheel plz?
I am so sad now. In addition to my kickstarter, I bought the midnight mare as well. I never realized it was a skin. I thought I was buying a mount. Oh, well. We live and learn. Thank you for letting me know.
Shouldn't be sad because it's a skin, it means you can apply it to the mounts you get later in the game. If it wasn't a skin, it would quickly become obsolete to the mounts tamers can make and you would never see it again. As it has been said, you will get be given a mount early that you can apply the skin too. You will probably be using those mounts your first day.
I do hope so. Mounts make a game so much more fun for me. I love riding a horse around the world as I explore.
I just finished reading the Q&A on Discord chat by Steven, one of the devs. He said that we can only use a skin for one character, but that later on we can remove that skin access from that character and give it to another character.
So, you cannot have two characters with your Runic stallion skin on your mount, but you can switch it back and forth between them.
I guess that also means that even if someone steals your mount from you, they cannot still the actual skin. Does anyone know for sure if someone can steal your mount from you? I know they can steal supplies because I read that in Discord.