[imported_Jiraiya]

I've seen this coming since I GMed taming; as soon as people get a stock of mounts, the sell the crappy ones off for cheap for a quick buck. The only problem is, when you sell a crap colored mustang for 7k, that mustang gets sold off 3 more times and everyone gets their money back to buy more crappy mounts. Before you know it, there are 4 GM tamers, then 7 GM tamers, then 10 GM tamers. The new crap mounts are hoarded then sold off in cheap lots, allowing 4 more people to GM off it them.

This is exactly what happens, if it wasnt happening before only because tamers refused to put those ugly mounts on the market so others couldn't gain any skill, then that is evidence of a problem. Miner's sell iron which many people use to gain tink, or bs, why wouldnt a tamer sell his crap mounts to the market. Just to stop anyone else from gaining skill and possibly taming a stang you tame? Maybe I'm just dense but it feels wrong to me to do this.

So hahahaha to all of you who sold cheap mounts for a quick buck. It's not a major problem due to the size of the shard, but if there were more players it would be a tremendous problem and any one tamer would get no more than one mount per day.
Or maybe that's how you want it.

Yeah thats exactly why I was bringing this up now, before beta ends (whenever that might be). A GM tamer only getting one mount a day if he's lucky is precisely what I'd like to not see happen.
And btw, when I was raising my taming, I did buy a fair few mounts, but mainly myth orns at 15k each for skill gain. So I wouldn't say it was dead cheap for skillgain. 6 of them (90k) for like 1.5% gain.
I was also able to gain quite a bit of skill because sandra had stopped playing, and you werent taming as much, so I found a few spawns, traded for others. It wasnt terribly difficult. But as it is right now with so many GM's going I'd have been hard pressed to find anything at all. Even knowing all the spawns already most of us only get a few a day, so they are snatched up extremely quickly.

Taming, by nature, is a rival in consumption.
When a good is rival in consumption,?
a. people can be prevented from using the good.
b. everyone will be excluded from obtaining the good.
c. no more than one person can use the good at the same time.
d. one person's use of the good diminishes another person's ability to use it.

4 reasons this current mount system sucks