Concept: Mounts and Wagons

UltimaJoe777

So what if our mounts could pull wagons? This would actually allow a player to carry other players around! Players can only board the wagon if the wagon is not moving and anyone can jump off the wagon at any given time, even while it's moving! The Carry Capacity stat could even be used to aid this concept!

Thoughts?

dodgehopper_ESO

Love it. This would be an excuse to have silt striders too.

Acrolas

I'd tell everyone we're taking a scenic trip up to the highest point in Cyrodiil.
Get up there and just drive my horse right off the mountain with everyone still on board.

It's a rather scenic trip down, too...

Rohamad_Ali

Yes please

UltimaJoe777

Acrolas wrote: »

I'd tell everyone we're taking a scenic trip up to the highest point in Cyrodiil.
Get up there and just drive my horse right off the mountain with everyone still on board.

It's a rather scenic trip down, too...

I think for immersion purposes jumping while pulling a wagon would have to be disabled, therefore the only way to do that is to be able to climb a hill without jumping. Wagons would have to be toggled on and off from the mounts menu as well to enable or disable them.

Also for the record enemy players cannot hop on in PvP zones lol

sneakymitchell

It would be nice so that other players can ride on your mount or wagon. That's what Angry Joe was a little mad about when you can't allow to do it. But probably won't allow it cause of lag when the players just exit and just spam abilities and such.

UltimaJoe777

sneakymitchell wrote: »

It would be nice so that other players can ride on your mount or wagon. That's what Angry Joe was a little mad about when you can't allow to do it. But probably won't allow it cause of lag when the players just exit and just spam abilities and such.

You wouldn't be able to use abilities while in the wagon, and Rapid Maneuver would be up to the driver.

megnin

Yes, please. Even just another player on your mount would be nice.

Smasherx74

This concept could work good with my Netch/Silt Strider mount idea.

No jumping, carry multiple people. Great idea for a mount, people would def buy them off crown store.

TheUrbanWizard

Acrolas wrote: »

I'd tell everyone we're taking a scenic trip up to the highest point in Cyrodiil.
Get up there and just drive my horse right off the mountain with everyone still on board.

It's a rather scenic trip down, too...

Thats GTAO territory right there bud 

ScottK1994

A one man carriage being of a moderate cost, and two and four being really expensive then I could see it working as a cash sink, good for the wood working craft and good for new PvP players.

Excellent idea bro

PurifedBladez

Yeah but if it comes it'll be 10000 crowns.

Korah_Eaglecry

This would be fun and quite immersive. I can imagine plenty of players RPing themselves travelling merchants.

itehache

I would love that, and it its lore-friendly too.

Milvan

It would be cool if implement with trade packs as well. I mean, bringing a trade package (craftable of course) to a destination (pvp or pve) would reward the player with gold, ap, or whatever. The further the distance travelled, the greater the reward. The most important is that trade packs wouldn't be inventory items, but worn like equipment on the back. Thus this would greatly reduce a player's movement speed, requiring him or her to seek efficient ways of travel (and to carry more trade packs) like wagons, special mounts, etc.

(yea, I'm totally copying this from other mmo's, but I think that is a really cool feature and very sandbox ish).

ArchMikem

There would be no practical use to them though. First thing people would want to do is transport their groups around Cyrodiil, so they all arrived somewhere together, but when was the last time you saw a single animal not only carry a person, but also pull a cart burdened with 4 or 6 other people, all with heavy armor and weapons doing 50mph across rugged terrain?

In order to stay within reason, the mount would be forced to travel at a walking pace, as was the Horse Carriage in Skyrim's intro sequence.

Wolfchild07

ArchMikem wrote: »

...the Horse Carriage in Skyrim's intro sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXgmNDwceM

UltimaJoe777

ArchMikem wrote: »

There would be no practical use to them though. First thing people would want to do is transport their groups around Cyrodiil, so they all arrived somewhere together, but when was the last time you saw a single animal not only carry a person, but also pull a cart burdened with 4 or 6 other people, all with heavy armor and weapons doing 50mph across rugged terrain?

In order to stay within reason, the mount would be forced to travel at a walking pace, as was the Horse Carriage in Skyrim's intro sequence.

You do raise a valid point. Therefore I propose that the mount's speed decrease with each additional passenger on the wagon, including the first one. The mount will only suffer a small decrease pulling the wagon with no passengers. Rapid Maneuver would still increase mount speed though even WITH the wagon.

As for practical use outside of Cyrodiil there actually is. A character with +60% mount speed from riding lessons pulling 6 people would STILL move faster than a character with NO investment in riding lessons, thus those that have not invested much into their mount speed would be able to catch a ride with someone that has, thus get around quicker. Sure one could argue fast travel trumps it but not always.

KimberlyannKitsuragi

I love this idea plus you could use it to haul supplies (like it could add an extra 20 slots to your bag or something)

Korah_Eaglecry

ArchMikem wrote: »

There would be no practical use to them though. First thing people would want to do is transport their groups around Cyrodiil, so they all arrived somewhere together, but when was the last time you saw a single animal not only carry a person, but also pull a cart burdened with 4 or 6 other people, all with heavy armor and weapons doing 50mph across rugged terrain?

In order to stay within reason, the mount would be forced to travel at a walking pace, as was the Horse Carriage in Skyrim's intro sequence.

Not if it was more than one mount.

UltimaJoe777

meri20098 wrote: »

I love this idea plus you could use it to haul supplies (like it could add an extra 20 slots to your bag or something)

No it'd be strictly player transport lol we already get 60 slots from riding lessons and don't really need anymore due to Crafting Bags.

KimberlyannKitsuragi

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

No it'd be strictly player transport lol we already get 60 slots from riding lessons and don't really need anymore due to Crafting Bags.

I was thinking as free slots without having to pay (depending on how you pay) 250-??? whatever the max bag thing is worth

AzraelKrieg

The only issue I see is that there are issues with the mount system currently that haven't been fixed or they are fixed but then come back ie. the scooting along the ground bug. This would just make more issues and since it would involve players not having any necessary input once on the wagon it might cause people to get stuck in the environment.

UltimaJoe777

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

The only issue I see is that there are issues with the mount system currently that haven't been fixed or they are fixed but then come back ie. the scooting along the ground bug. This would just make more issues and since it would involve players not having any necessary input once on the wagon it might cause people to get stuck in the environment.

Everything has issues at first. Literally everything lol but it's nothing that cannot be fixed later on, even if they do resurface again. I mean that's never stopped Zenimax before right?

hingarthuub17_ESO

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

...the Horse Carriage in Skyrim's intro sequence.

[Hilarious movie sequence]

I gotta tell ya this made me lol so hard and I'm at work.

Hellbender27

I think it would add some more elements to the game would fit nice when housing drops