[imported_Jiraiya]

Meh its possible to find the stangs even when people hoard them. A few of them are quite obvious too if you stumble in the general area even if the mount isn't there.

All the obvious ones your talking about here are PvM based spawns. Or areas that require solving puzzles. Ofcourse those are obvious and they arent nearly as much of a problem because, even if I see one of these up, if I cant be bothered going through the dungeon or encounter that day I'll just leave it. And I know other gm tamers do this as well. A good example is blackrock, its almost always up, but there are very few people who make the effort to go get it. If the majority of spawns were like this I think it'd be better. But it seems your moving in that direction anyway :p

My first reason is, by doing this it puts people who earned GM taming at the same playing field as someone with 40 taming and thats not how it should be. What would be the point in GMing the skill if it didn't give you an advantage or benefit... I hardly count failing less much of a benefit.

Personally I count it a huge benefit, the only real benefit. I got so sick of running around boxing mounts in and sitting there waiting for an hour or two sometimes for it to tame. During all that time, anyone can come along and kill you, so you have to remain non afk. I dont think at all that someone with 40 skill is even with someone at GM. So they both get a shot at taming the mount, so what? That guy at 40 skill is sitting there out in the world, and someone will come along, it nearly always happened to me while taming at wind or some other world spawns, this creates pvp hotspots, its a good thing. The gm tamers have already gone through that and they can run in and just quickly pick up the mount, same as now.

Another reason I don't like it is because I just don't like limiting anything. Its bad enough we have skills and spells disabled, the last thing I want is to make taming half disabled.

Er half disabled how? If you tame a spawn, then cant tame from that spawn for a period of time, thats the exact same as what there is now. I see what your saying about not wanting to stop someone from using a skill, but I just think its a fairly small modification, nothing as serious as your making it out by saying "half disabled". Its not like you couldnt use the taming skill 50% of your online time lol.

As for mount prices... well its hardly the staffs concern that tamers are greedy. They could price mounts at 500k each if they want, just don't buy from the overpriced vendors and prices will eventually drop if they aren't making money off it.
New mounts will be coming when the playerbase picks up a little more. I have a new mount that I am just itching to add but as it stands there is practically 1 mount for every active player online and thats just too much.

Totally agree with all that, although what I was talkin about was staff being able to limit the supply of mounts easily without having to change spawns around. The players buying them pretty much set the price, they will pay what its worth to them to have it. I gotta say tho, some of the "rares" that spawn are so ugly no one ever actually rides them, they are just for skill which seems kinda wasteful.