Still want a dragon as a mount

xboxone1Q

Skyrim is coming back to celebrate it lets have that dragon mount! :}

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Obligatory response:

No flying mounts in general, because it would smash the game balance to bits.

No dragons in particular, because they've mostly been wiped out at this point in history and the rest are in hiding.

Roechacca

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Obligatory response:

No flying mounts in general, because it would smash the game balance to bits.

No dragons in particular, because they've mostly been wiped out at this point in history and the rest are in hiding.

Balance?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

@Roechacca -

"Oh, brave hero, my daughter is being held by bandits up on that hill, please fight through them to save her!"

*Hero gets on mount, flies over the bandits in question, lands, grabs girl, flies back, skipping a huge swarm of mobs and a boss fight in the process*

MerkzM8

It doesn't necessarily have to fly, it could just walk, or hover very slightly over the ground. I do however think the hit box should be exactly same as any other mount as in PvP it would be unfair.

JKorr

xboxone1Q wrote: »

Skyrim is coming back to celebrate it lets have that dragon mount! :}

Will you go play skyrim already? Or any other game that allows you to fly. Perhaps a pink unicorn with gold wings that farts rainbows would take your mind off dragons.There's another game out there that allows you to ride a T-REX THAT HAS LASERS!!!! Seriously, there is.

The few dragons who aren't dead are in hiding/out of sight after the Dragonguard killed every dragon they could find. With a very few exceptions until Alduin comes back, THERE ARE NO DRAGONS IN PLAIN SIGHT, let alone hundreds of them flying around with wannabe dovahkiin on their necks.

@Roechacca; I would be more worried that flying would *really* bork the game. There are a lot of places you have to hit a trigger point, a spot on the floor, a doorway, some particular dot to advance a quest. No trigger, no advance. Being able to fly would screw that up sooo badly....

Roechacca

I get what you guys are saying. Balance was just a term that didn't make sense TO ME. Even though I personally don't care one way or another about mounts, other games have these "flying" mounts but they don't fly, they just hover to avoid the game problems you're describing. It's easy to implement in a game these days.

If you don't want them because they're annoying or lore breaking, I get that angle. But they wouldn't effect balance here.

Van_0S

I want $$$ as a mount with ZO$ logo on it! XD

shadowwraith666

No it would break the lore to have dragons in ESO.

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negbert

Only if I can get my adoring fan pet

SolarCat02

Every time we do Vaults of Madness, I am always reminded how much I would love to have Iskra the Omen's smaller sibling to ride on.

It will never happen, but I can dream.

ForfiniteStories

I'm pretty sure the OP is a very young person who has never played a TES game before Skyrim and on PC.
No one else would say such a thing and phrase it that way.

Definitely not something to lose your cool over and take seriously.

I mean no offense, of course. Just an observation.

/thread

JKorr

ForfiniteStories wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the OP is a very young person who has never played a TES game before Skyrim and on PC.
No one else would say such a thing and phrase it that way.

Definitely not something to lose your cool over and take seriously.

I mean no offense, of course. Just an observation.

/thread

He's asked for dragons, cows, whales, elephants, a camel with USA on the side, and a dragon that attacks everything.

You could be correct. On the other hand he could be trolling/baiting to see if anyone snaps at him. :shrug: He keeps getting the same, consistent replies about the timeline and dragons though, whether he believes it or not.

xboxone1Q

But a least I'm right about that dragon mount :}

Crimsonwolf666

Unfortunately it would be lore breaking. You could probably get away with something that looks kinda like a dragon but doesn't fly. I think flying animations would be too much for the game to handle anyway. Wamasu mounts would probably be the closest you can ask for. Dragons that are still "alive" during this era in the game are "asleep" if you will. The won't be awakened until Alduin comes back to the world and awakens them.

JKorr

xboxone1Q wrote: »

But a least I'm right about that dragon mount :}

Right about what? You haven't been right abpiut any of the mounts fitting in the game in any of the "I wanna ride X" threads from the start.

Here you go. http://dinostorm.com/en/

Look! Spots. http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/tyrannosaurus-rex

This one is violet and purple and has horns! http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/carnotaurus

xboxone1Q

JKorr wrote: »

xboxone1Q wrote: »

But a least I'm right about that dragon mount :}

Right about what? You haven't been right abpiut any of the mounts fitting in the game in any of the "I wanna ride X" threads from the start.

Here you go. http://dinostorm.com/en/

Look! Spots. http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/tyrannosaurus-rex

This one is violet and purple and has horns! http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/carnotaurus

But you do know it's the crown store right? Dragon mounts would be nice to see. About fitting in it we shouldn't be able to ride a bear or a wolf. Realistically I never seen people in real life ride a bear or a wolf. If you want to be technical about it we should only ride horses since that's what we ride in real life, but you know it's a game. You can ride whatever you want. :}

dodgehopper_ESO

Silt striders are much more reasonable in terms of theme.

Abeille

xboxone1Q wrote: »

JKorr wrote: »

xboxone1Q wrote: »

But a least I'm right about that dragon mount :}

Right about what? You haven't been right abpiut any of the mounts fitting in the game in any of the "I wanna ride X" threads from the start.

Here you go. http://dinostorm.com/en/

Look! Spots. http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/tyrannosaurus-rex

This one is violet and purple and has horns! http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/carnotaurus

But you do know it's the crown store right? Dragon mounts would be nice to see. About fitting in it we shouldn't be able to ride a bear or a wolf. Realistically I never seen people in real life ride a bear or a wolf. If you want to be technical about it we should only ride horses since that's what we ride in real life, but you know it's a game. You can ride whatever you want. :}

Ohh I see the confusion. It's okay, not everybody understand how good fiction is supposed to work.

There is a thing called "inner consistency", which is different although derived from "realism". In short, it is what makes sense inside the given universe, which not necessarily matches what makes sense in our universe, especially when we are talking about a fantasy setting.

Inner consistency is "the realism of a fictional universe". In TES, it makes sense for them to ride a dire wolf or a bear, even if we do not ride them in real life. However, in TES, it does not make sense for us to ride dragons at this time period and not being dragonborns.

Dragons are not regular animals like giant wolves, horses, bears and the like. They are immensely intelligent and powerful creatures, and in Skyrim, you need to literally bend their will to be able to ride them (either through a shout or through a deal, like with Odahviing), and even so, it is just for a short period of time. I won't get into more detail as to not confuse you too much, but there is a belief in the TES universe that dragons are minor deities or an aspect of a major deity (depends on who you ask).

And there is the problem that the remaining dragons are either dead or hiding right now, like many people told you already. It would break the inner consistency of the TES universe to have a bunch of people riding dragons around the world, because they are not supposed to be up and about right now in the timeline.

Another issue is that they are too big and would take too much space on cities. And no, there are not "younger, smaller dragons" you could tame (or "enslave", which would be a better term) because dragons in TES do not have a life cycle of birth and growth like we do.

Last but not least, there is the gameplay issue. For flying mounts to work in a game the game must have been developed with them in mind, which isn't the case of ESO. The divisions between maps, the way taking keeps in Cyrodiil work, quest objectives that need you to pass through a certain point, it all would have to be reworked. The game would have to be pretty much redone from the ground up to accommodate flying mounts.

So no, unfortunately for you, you can't ride anything you want, even if you don't care about inner consistency.

If you are still confused or have any questions, I would love to help

JKorr

xboxone1Q wrote: »

JKorr wrote: »

xboxone1Q wrote: »

But a least I'm right about that dragon mount :}

Right about what? You haven't been right abpiut any of the mounts fitting in the game in any of the "I wanna ride X" threads from the start.

Here you go. http://dinostorm.com/en/

Look! Spots. http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/tyrannosaurus-rex

This one is violet and purple and has horns! http://dinostorm.com/en/online-3d-game/dinosaur-lexicon/carnotaurus

But you do know it's the crown store right? Dragon mounts would be nice to see. About fitting in it we shouldn't be able to ride a bear or a wolf. Realistically I never seen people in real life ride a bear or a wolf. If you want to be technical about it we should only ride horses since that's what we ride in real life, but you know it's a game. You can ride whatever you want. :}

You might have never seen anyone ride a bear. Honestly, it isn't a normal beast of burden. However it has been done. NOT THE TV SERIES; look for information on the real Grizzly Adams. He raised a bear cub, taught it to follow him, taught it to carry his saddlebags/packs, and eventually to let him ride.

Wolves in our world are not suitable as mounts either. And riding large predatory cats would be a bad thing.

However in the game world, real world stuff doesn't apply. The history/lore/inner logic of the game world applies.

Senche are mounts. Giant wolves can be ridden. One of the stable masters says he can sometimes arrange to get a bear mount from Orsinium. You find books in Wrothgar that tell about the old orc kings and their epic bear mounts. Dragons exist in the game; however the inner logic/lore of the game world sets them up as the former rulers over humans and mer. Slaves don't ride their masters. If the dragons were still around and active, there wouldn't be humans or mer riding them. Since the humans and mer rebelled and starting killing the dragons, they are even less likely to allow riders. Since all but a few dragons are in hiding or dead until Alduin returns, THERE WOULD NOT BE HUNDREDS OF DRAGONS FLYING AROUND WITH WANNA BE DOVAHKIIN HANGING ON THEIR NECKS.

I don't care what is in the crown store. Dragon mounts should not be in the game.