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

I have another idea

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f.../episode-2-stretch-goals.133693/#post-1086443

 

Ah, okay.
And presumably, though the stretch goal store one are exclusive, there would be others later that aren't?

 

Yep. Thats still the case with the last ones

 

And the ones in the stretch goals right now, the three foals and the stand you do get in the game now. I wonder if they will grow!

 

@EMPstrike your little picture there is awesome, both of them!

 

Thanks! Leostorm drew it

 

When mounts come into the game, the baby horses will grow up and be rideable

 

I somehow feel a little boat to cross any river would be many times more useful than a horse! Or can it cross rivers?

 

Horse can drown

 

Stone horse stables :> For those not satisfied with the wood stables from the prev. stretch goal.

Ornate horse stables. For the fancier folks.


Cottage cobblestone horse stables. Quaint and pretty.

Viking-style stables.


Baronial stable block. For rich backers who have huge castles.

 

That's what hitching posts are for. :> There will probably be a hitching post near the beginning of most scenes. Also, I expect we'll be forced to dismount to enter buildings, enter dungeons, etc.

 

I have all my stretch goal animals and other stretch goal items from the last time I bought them. Some of that includes fouls of different colors, three sizes of boats, an anchor, the saddle stand and other tie your horse up thing, a llama and mule from the pack animal stretch goal.

I am not overly happy about having to raise money again for this but it is what it is. The timing was not right last time and the cash raised on it was a decent amount and probably just went into developing the game. Which is what we all want.

I still think we could have found another way to get features into the game which I feel it just should have had anyway. But oh well.

I will accept it and move on to rallying for these systems to be put in game feature complete and not bare bones trying to placate us and raise money systems only. Be loud about it with me please.

To make mounts useful in a game full of loading screens consider what can be special and useful about them for us.

I truly wanted horse racing and trainable horses to jump hurtles etc. Then some one mentioned the speed nerf and I hope this will not affect what is done with horses. Battle mounts are another thought with armor and skills available for our horses.

 

Did they ever say what happened with the first one?

 

You're not misremembering... that was what they said. But this falls under the expansive DLMB clause.

 

Sorry for over thinking this but with speed being a huge problem for game (speed nerf) are mounts essentially just replacing wolf speed or dash? Are they planning on expanding zones to make riding around worth it? Currently you can cross a zone rather quickly as it is. Then factor in you can pretty much pop to any location on the map with a scroll is there any plans of removing them to make adding mounts viable?
If any of this was already posted by a dev, forgive me because I missed it and won’t be able to watch the telethon till later tonight if it’s mentioned there.

 

Adopt an SOTA horse! An amazing 10,905 helpless foals are still looking for a home in Novia!

Seriously though, that's a lot of horses to sell to hit the stretch goal.

Maybe the devs should consider tying this to a make a difference 501(c)3 charity like: http://savethehorses.org/index.html to further raise interest.

 

"You're gonna need a bigger barn"

 

Yes they said I guess we didn't want them enough and then came back later and said we could have them all at a later date. *sighs* But really tbh the game wasn't quite ready for them yet.

 

I think they really need to allow pets not to count towards the NPC count on lots and let that just be for vendors. People would probably buy more pets. If its an issue of having too many in a town for performance problems, then let them use more in basements or other mini-instances on a players lot. Like the basement, a barn, for example, could be it's own mini-instance too and you could have a zoo or museum as you please and still have the aesthetics of being above ground and open air.