Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars... for mounts in episode 2

Pretty sure they're just getting started.

 

Didn't they say they will be adding more to those stretch goals?

 

"We are starting with the Mounts Stretch-goal and will add further stretch-goals over the next several months including Flexible Lot Placement, Pack Animals, and Elven Playable Race. NOTE: Many of these items are similar to the previous stretch-goal store items but these are different and unique."
We are at 31k so far. This is exciting!

 

It might be cheaper to just buy us all real horses.

 

Lol. Okay let's say they're good quality horses at 5000 a pop. given ~200 steam players and 3 times that many players on non-steam, let's say there are 800 concurrent players atm.

Just to give all the concurrent players horses would cost 4 million.

 

Don't forget feed and stabling costs..

It's not cheap

 

HAY BALES YES YES YES been asking for years for that. (square ones and the mound ones)
Wagon and cart yes!
All of these are already art assets we have in scenes perhaps even the pennant lines

These are fantastic ideas!

 

What does the fox say?

 

I like my lovely bunch of coconuts. They are a nod to Monty Python. I would prefer to keep them but would love to be able to hit a button to say 'mount up' rather than having to constantly have to unequip one to talk to an npc or click a door etc.

 

On the mounts page it says you would dismount for combat. I am guessing that would make it ok.

 

That's how it was in EQII. It would be awesome if it could roam around with you while dismounted. (I can feel the devs plotting my death as I write this but it would still be awesome.)

 

But what happens when you get killed while your mount is walking beside you? It's already not a good thing with a combat pet. I guess it's good that, as we can see from Nightshade Pass, nothing wants to attack horses! There must be some good reason the wolves there won't go after even the foals.

 

They don't go after all the bunnies either but if they get caught in one poorly placed AoE your courage virtue gets dinged. (As if the pathetic noise they make when their lives get snuffed out isn't bad enough.) lol

 

Well, except outlanders unintentionally. I'd always be worried my mount was a sleeper agent for #horselivesmatter, just waiting for the right moment to exact revenge...

 

So, how does this work exactly, then? If they don't get $250k, you'll still get a horsie anyway if you bought in?

 

I saw someone with a Dun Foal last night at Alles party. Not sure if she just renamed it Dun Foal or if it actually was one. My impression was that they are what we are buying and will get at 250k.

 

I thought all the original stretch goals like this one were added during Episode 1 development as a way to get them into game early if the goal was met, if the goal was not met then we would get them as part of Episode 2 anyway. I must be misremembering that...

 

So, what happens at $250k, then, if people are getting them anyway? I don't seem to understand exactly how this works.

 

I believe its 250k needed to hire a team to specifically work on mounts.

Like the first set of stretch goals, this is just to get mounts in BY episode 2. Mounts will likely come in in the future reguardless, just not as soon

 

It's the same scrawny colts like last time.