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(Idea) 1st expansion is.............Flight..................why?
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Because it's not the main focus of the game right now, but will be in the game due to owning a dragon. Why should it be added? Cause it would be cool. Really after a good year under our belts of playing this game, or two, any expansion to it, MUST expand on other areas. Sky city anyone? Just food for thought.
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Still, get on a ground mount.. or some sort of non-instant travel like a boat. You may find some great adventure that you never would have found otherwise.
I'd personally prefer some magic elevator floating upward and taking you to that city, while you are chilling and enjoying the view, that becomes more and more impressive.
I think a zip line would be pretty fun xD
I believe it is more of the fear may got NOT to bring features that makes it comparable with archeage (negativity because of p2w), than calling flight as p2w.
Right now archeage turns into something different from farming/crafting. They nerfed crafting and farming at 3.5 patch, now with 4.0 they devastate it, they may remove this aspects totally in the feature. So ashes of creation will be the only pure farming game along with star citizen (if they ever make it), chronicles of elyria, etc far distant mmos.
Ashes is trying to reclaim many of the systems that have been ignored, dumbed down, hark back to games that required time and effort to achieve results in, create a game world that is alive where much of the content is driven by the player base its self. It is the player driven content that excites me the most and to many this will be a foreign concept as all they have had to do is follow the quests, grind for gear get to max level do the raids and then wait for the next content patch so there is more for them to do.
I think and I hope that ashes can create something new and exciting where we the players create the content we drive the narrative and oh there are quests, dungeons and some raids you can do too if you like.
This went a bit off topic lol
Well mainly I figured if they will have dragons in the game for a few players, then why not add the flight down the road later. It's not something I was seeing coming soon anyway, but only after we pretty much been in this game world over a year or two. After that time, a lot can and will happen within the game world. We should have very active guilds, some with castles. We will have huge level 6 cities. There would have been a few siege wars that happened. Players at this point would have settled into whatever life style they are looking to do.
So, why not have something like flight in an expansion? Unless I missed something, can the dragons fly that will be given to the Mayors of the huge level 6 cities? Unless these dragons are just going to walk around, but I did see wings on them, and that looks to be a flyer to me. So why not add this later, even if you limit it, maybe have balloon flight only. Make it so you have to work with the weather and the wind. Make it where it's not 100% safe, and issue can and should happen. Arrows anyone?
even if you have mounts, maybe you could still run the danger of some bigger creature hunting your type of flying mount, so fly wouldn't be 100% safe, and would make for a hole new type of game play.
Sure I agree we should take our time to explore the land, make town, and grow out business. But once 90% is found then what? We will look for new lands, that should be something added in an expansion. So why not add flight to the old land, or even just the new land. Put limits on it if that's what you want, but why toss out something that can be fun. Flight in AoC should have it's own risks too, not just an auto pilot to the next town.
People still seem to be stuck in the mindset that this is planned to be some sort of themepark with level dependant zones that are static and never change. "Oh, I climbed RockCandy Mountain when I was level 20, no reason to go there again." The ability to actively delevel nodes through the siege mechanic will pretty much guarantee that the claim of "Oh, I saw that, no reason for me to go back there." will be moot. People will want to change the environment, not just to destroy someone else's work, but to unlock new content possibilities.
They have stated from the beginning that certain trends in the last decade of mmos have ruined the genre. Many of us are here because the message resonates. If they give everyone flying mounts, what is next? Groupfinder? P2Win?
Rather than read my rant, here is a shotgun blast of Discord quotes about dragons and their vision for them.
Now I also read about dragons.. Well, snakes is not my thing if they ever decide to add Gryphon's or Pegasus too, I will consider it
(Pegasus is rare, also the myth of Pegasus is definition of rarity. Only the purest hearts or bravest can mount it). Though I read about kings and queens, Pegasus is not for kings and queens, but for heroes. Kings and Queens are not pure nor brave.
(my prev comment vanished again after edit so this is a repost) My comment went for @UnknownSystem error.
Now I also read about dragons.. Well, snakes is not my thing if they ever decide to add Gryphon's, eagles or Pegasus too, I will consider it
. I don't like the moon deities
mounts, I prefer the SUN deities mounts. (eagles are also used in LOTR) but it is known as a sun deity mount by Zeus.
(Pegasus is rare, also the myth of Pegasus is definition of rarity. Only the purest hearts or bravest can mount it). Though I read about kings and queens, Pegasus is not for kings and queens, but for heroes. Kings and Queens are not pure nor brave.
So my suggestion would be Dragon for the money, eagles, pegasus, gryphons for the poor but brave or pure.
many confuse Pegasus with Unicorns. Unicorns are moon deity mounts with a horn. Pegasus is a horse with 2 wings and represents the SUN. Some create images of half unicorns and half pegasus.. Thats absurd because the creators do not understand the true meaning behind it, the symbolism.
dragons are indeed equivalent to kings and queens, but balance is missing if they only do that. They also need something for the heroes/poor but brave or pure players