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Pet / Mount Combo!?!?!

AtliAtli Member, Warrior of Old, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
in General Discussion
As an RPer, something that bugs me just a little is dismounting from my large bear mount and POOF, he/she just disappears. Furthermore, my mini pet just POOF appears when I dismount. So I understand the reasoning behind this- mini pets running at the speed of a mount behind your character would be weird and could add strain to the game.

What I would love to see as an option instead are pet skins that look exactly like my mount, so when I dismount, you might see the mount disappear and the pet appear, but it's the same creature, so the transition is minimal and I get to maintain the immersion that the large animal I rode in on is following me around! I've only managed similar feats with SWTOR Nexu Companion / Mount (similar skins).

While I'm not interested in this as much, a beastmaster might also really enjoy their pet and mount combo interacting... almost like an idle flourish- a momma bear mount and a baby bear mini pet could nuzzle each other, for example.

Would anyone else be interested in seeing Ashes do this?!?! Can you think of other ways you would like the mount and pet system interact?

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Comments

  • LyiatLyiat Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 2019
    Now nothings been guaranteed and what I'm about to tell you is a guess at best, but judging by some of the things that have already been said about mounts in the game leads me to think they're entities onto themselves. They're not like WoW mounts where you pull them out of your pocket and away you go. We know they have 'stamina', and when they run out of 'stamina' you can't ride them for a time until they get it back. We also know there will be a number of mounts with several seats on them.

    So mounts likely follow you around as a full-sized NPC mob, so people can attack it and potentially knock it out. This is how it was done in ArchAge, and as we all know Steven played a lot of that game. Defeated mounts had to be healed before you could ride them effectively. They'd limp and only have a tiny sliver of health.
  • AtliAtli Member, Warrior of Old, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Lyiat wrote: »
    Now nothings been guaranteed and what I'm about to tell you is a guess at best, but judging by some of the things that have already been said about mounts in the game leads me to think they're entities onto themselves. They're not like WoW mounts where you pull them out of your pocket and away you go. We know they have 'stamina', and when they run out of 'stamina' you can't ride them for a time until they get it back. We also know there will be a number of mounts with several seats on them.

    So mounts likely follow you around as a full-sized NPC mob, so people can attack it and potentially knock it out. This is how it was done in ArchAge, and as we all know Steven played a lot of that game. Defeated mounts had to be healed before you could ride them effectively. They'd limp and only have a tiny sliver of health.

    I hope that's the case, but I wouldn't put too much faith on just the fact they have stamina. ESO has a stamina system for their mounts too, and they disappear, unfortunately. Still, we can hope yes? :wink:
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  • LyiatLyiat Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited April 2019
    Atli wrote: »
    Lyiat wrote: »
    Now nothings been guaranteed and what I'm about to tell you is a guess at best, but judging by some of the things that have already been said about mounts in the game leads me to think they're entities onto themselves. They're not like WoW mounts where you pull them out of your pocket and away you go. We know they have 'stamina', and when they run out of 'stamina' you can't ride them for a time until they get it back. We also know there will be a number of mounts with several seats on them.

    So mounts likely follow you around as a full-sized NPC mob, so people can attack it and potentially knock it out. This is how it was done in ArchAge, and as we all know Steven played a lot of that game. Defeated mounts had to be healed before you could ride them effectively. They'd limp and only have a tiny sliver of health.

    I hope that's the case, but I wouldn't put too much faith on just the fact they have stamina. ESO has a stamina system for their mounts too, and they disappear, unfortunately. Still, we can hope yes? :wink:

    While that may be the case, does ESO also heavily rely in trading commodities and transporting them? Not to my knowledge. AoC will have mounts especially for that task, which I believe we're currently calling 'mule'-type mounts. If you could just hide those in your pocket, then the resources they're holding would become very easy to transport safely. It wouldn't make sense for it not to be a live entity.
  • T ElfT Elf Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    In BDO when I was traveling on my carriage, my cat would sit beside me on the bench. I would like that our pets would ride with us; like on the rump or pummel of mounts, sometimes on our shoulders, or on benches, etc.
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  • perseus01perseus01 Member
    edited April 2019
    Dude, weird idea for BeastMaster, but like when he gets full level and has a stacked/legendary pet. Make it to where when he summons him, he comes out of some misty smoke and does a sound and or action....? Riight? Like really Immersed. Crazy eyes and stuff.

    Bro, and make a badass opening cut-scene in the intro video for him and you got everything about WoW whipped with some added hype.
  • KarthosKarthos Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    What if, as a summoner, you lay an egg and that births your creature?
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  • perseus01perseus01 Member
    edited April 2019
    Karthos wrote: »
    What if, as a summoner, you lay an egg and that births your creature?

    Let's just keep with the dragon eggs for now. But I think I can your see your imagining here. Like drop it and a little rumble and crack happens with pieces of shell flying up? That would be kinda cool.
  • DamoklesDamokles Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Karthos wrote: »
    What if, as a summoner, you lay an egg and that births your creature?

    @Karthos You could just throw them at your enemies

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  • KarthosKarthos Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.
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  • DamoklesDamokles Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Karthos wrote: »
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.

    No i mean it would be easier to just throw the eggs at your enemies.
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  • KarthosKarthos Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Damokles wrote: »
    Karthos wrote: »
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.

    No i mean it would be easier to just throw the eggs at your enemies.

    Like a monkey flinging poo!!
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  • DamoklesDamokles Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Karthos wrote: »
    Damokles wrote: »
    Karthos wrote: »
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.

    No i mean it would be easier to just throw the eggs at your enemies.

    Like a monkey flinging poo!!

    Exactly!
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  • LyiatLyiat Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    This thread got weird.
  • NagashNagash Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Lyiat wrote: »
    This thread got weird.

    welcome to the ashes of creation forums ^^
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    The dead do not squabble as this land’s rulers do. The dead have no desires, petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace
  • sivannasivanna Member, Pioneer, Kickstarter
    edited April 2019
    In simurgh’s recent video with Steven, Steven mentions being unable to summon and Unsummon your mounts and pets. Although I hope we can’t unsummon them if they have items in their inventory...that could easily lead to an inventory space exploit.
  • KarthosKarthos Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Nagash wrote: »
    Lyiat wrote: »
    This thread got weird.

    welcome to the ashes of creation forums ^^

    Why thank you.

    I'm new here!
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  • perseus01perseus01 Member
    Sivanna wrote: »
    In simurgh’s recent video with Steven, Steven mentions being unable to summon and Unsummon your mounts and pets. Although I hope we can’t unsummon them if they have items in their inventory...that could easily lead to an inventory space exploit.

    Dude, I totally missed this! Thanks!
  • WololoWololo Member, Phoenix Initiative, Hero of the People, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Karthos wrote: »
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.

    What was first, the Summoner or the Egg ?
  • VolgaireVolgaire Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Karthos wrote: »
    No I mean literally the summoner lays the egg.

    You have some wierd kinks my friend c:
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