03-30-2009, 11:39 PM
IMO theres really only one major problem w/ rare mount spawning here. If someone wants to do nothing but check spawns all day every day they can almostly completely stop anyone else from taming anything. Which is ideal if you want to monopolize them and jack up prices, because then you dont sell training mounts at all, just expensive ones. Hold back the others so no one else can gain skill and cut in on your business. It just makes sense to do it if your after cash.
This is at the expense though of everyone else who cant find rides and cant persue their skill in a reasonable way. Its not nearly as bad now, but this is exactly what happened here. Now theres lots of stangs about and lots of gm tamers. Which is the result of sam and theo and a few other people going over the map for several hundred hours to find spawns, then selling mounts at half the price of what other tamers were asking for training mounts. Which I thought was very cool of them.
So now theres lots of tamers, and the situation is a bit better. Also a lot of the spawns are in obvious dungeon/encounter areas now. Even if its not there at the time you can make note and check a few times a day to see.
World spawn spots however are supposed to be pvp hotspots, but they arent because theres never any mounts there. You kop, track, kop. Wind used to be a crazy spot on *****, there was a small guardzone around the entrance where tamers would team up to try and fend off any reds who always always showed up to gank. The key to all of this happening was of course that mounts were always spawning there, nice mounts. Also it would take a gm tamer several minutes to tame a ride, sometimes up to a half hour for an ultra rare. So you needed protection.
TBH I think there are mounts worth up to like 250k, for being super rare or unique, first one of a new kind, etc. But it sucks when people are too afraid to lose their ride or armor or whatever that they wont ever wear it/ride it to pvp and hunt, that actually stifles the economy because people dont lose them. They just sit in a box heh. There should be more cool rides available to players who will go into high risk pvp areas.
Also shouldn't there be a way to steal someones ride? I think its been brought up several times but never got an answer. What about bonding? Any chance of making it possible?
Sry for long post, just my opinions on it. I think theres a way to make it so everyone benefits but its probably very difficult to script and would require account tagging and other crap :/ Maybe one day Taran or Shade can take a bash at it, or Nasir, we're still in beta after all
This is at the expense though of everyone else who cant find rides and cant persue their skill in a reasonable way. Its not nearly as bad now, but this is exactly what happened here. Now theres lots of stangs about and lots of gm tamers. Which is the result of sam and theo and a few other people going over the map for several hundred hours to find spawns, then selling mounts at half the price of what other tamers were asking for training mounts. Which I thought was very cool of them.
So now theres lots of tamers, and the situation is a bit better. Also a lot of the spawns are in obvious dungeon/encounter areas now. Even if its not there at the time you can make note and check a few times a day to see.
World spawn spots however are supposed to be pvp hotspots, but they arent because theres never any mounts there. You kop, track, kop. Wind used to be a crazy spot on *****, there was a small guardzone around the entrance where tamers would team up to try and fend off any reds who always always showed up to gank. The key to all of this happening was of course that mounts were always spawning there, nice mounts. Also it would take a gm tamer several minutes to tame a ride, sometimes up to a half hour for an ultra rare. So you needed protection.
TBH I think there are mounts worth up to like 250k, for being super rare or unique, first one of a new kind, etc. But it sucks when people are too afraid to lose their ride or armor or whatever that they wont ever wear it/ride it to pvp and hunt, that actually stifles the economy because people dont lose them. They just sit in a box heh. There should be more cool rides available to players who will go into high risk pvp areas.
Also shouldn't there be a way to steal someones ride? I think its been brought up several times but never got an answer. What about bonding? Any chance of making it possible?
Sry for long post, just my opinions on it. I think theres a way to make it so everyone benefits but its probably very difficult to script and would require account tagging and other crap :/ Maybe one day Taran or Shade can take a bash at it, or Nasir, we're still in beta after all