Transferring Horses

Joru_TheDamager · July 2014

Hi people. There have been a few times where I botched my characters in some way. Usually this meant deleting it and rebuilding right. Usually this is no big deal because if you had anything really important you can just put it in the bank and get it later. However this does not apply to horses. I think that is very wrong. It takes a great deal of money and time to build your horse. You should be able to safe guard them for your other characters you create. I'm calling on all like minded players to place your support here.

SirAndy · July 2014

It would be great to be able to park a horse at a shared stable just like you have a shared bank for items.

Nox_Aeterna · July 2014

I agree with this.

Takes a LOT of time to lvl a horse.

Sapphy24 · July 2014

I agree totally. Shared bank why not shared horses.

dharbert · July 2014

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

This has nothing to do with botching a character, you simply want to transfer fully leveled horses from your high ranking, older toons, to your newer toons.

twev · July 2014

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

Well, except for that whole "making an EP Orc when you wanted an AD Bosmer......" thing, sure....

kassandratheclericb14_ESO · July 2014

twev wrote: »

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

Well, except for that whole "making an EP Orc when you wanted an AD Bosmer......" thing, sure....

So you didn't notice pretty early on that Orc was picked and not Bosmer?

Auralia · July 2014

Yes I agree, I've lvled a Khajiit templar to 32 and her horse is quite a high lvl as well, but Iam bored with how my khajiit looks and no longer like her, so am lvling an argonian templar to take her place and will delete the khajiit once my argonian is the same lvl. Would be nice if her horse didn't have to get deleted as well.

Welka · July 2014

If the stable cannot be shared, at least give a full refund (price of the horse + any upgrade) when selling your horse. That way, you can buy a new horse right away when starting a new char.

I saw a topic a few days ago where the OP suggested selling horses at a guild store or auction house. Thought it was a good idea to allow people to buy a lv50 horse anytime from a horse breeder, at a consistent fee of course.

There are some small areas in the game where players need a bit more flexibility/capability that would add to immersion and don't require a vast amount of programming to allow to do so. I'm sure though that ZOS will come to it eventually. Let's not forget the game brand new and there's room for loads more to be included in the future

Enodoc · July 2014

I agree to this idea. Either let the stable be shared, with a reduction on new stable slots, or allow us to put horses in the bank.

Dovel · July 2014

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

This has nothing to do with botching a character, you simply want to transfer fully leveled horses from your high ranking, older toons, to your newer toons.

Sure, if you want to spend 42,000 gold just to respec a single skill. Great design there.

Easier to delete, and start again.

twev · July 2014

kassandratheclericb14_ESO wrote: »

twev wrote: »

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

Well, except for that whole "making an EP Orc when you wanted an AD Bosmer......" thing, sure....

So you didn't notice pretty early on that Orc was picked and not Bosmer?

Yeah, I realized I 'd worded that poorly right after I posted, but... what the heck....

The concept I was thinking but hadn't conveyed was that one could play a character for a bit and discover that the racial traits were not working out the way one had hoped.

I agree with you that being annoyed at making the race wrong because of stupidity was a trivial and poor example.

gunplummer · July 2014

The horse is a bigger money sink then the bank. Sure you can get 20 extra bank spaces for 12k, but if you didn't buy the imperial edition you don;t get the 1 gold horse. The other problem is to buy a horse worth anything will cost you 42k plus another 12k for upgrades.

They need to offer either a respec for horses, transfer to another character, or a one time purchase then all characters can pick that horse to buy for 1 gold. The "let's bind everything on equip" concept is just irritating.

theyancey · July 2014

I sure would like to be able to transfer my pack upgrades from my Imperial horse to a better breed.

Sengra · July 2014

I love the idea of sharing one stable. Even transferring horses for a small fee would be very good. Maybe you could borrow a horse from another char for a week, or even lend fully levelled horses to other players, either for PvP or roleplay.

Or there could be guild-owned stables like guild shops where people could sell or borrow fully levelled horses or lend them to guild-mates for a symbolic fee. Yes!

I kind of disagree with the "buy it once, get one horse for every char". Horses are a motivation for me to earn gold, so I don't want it to be too easy. And I don't want the same kind of horse for every char (like the Palomino horse).

DenverRalphy · July 2014

Dovel wrote: »

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

This has nothing to do with botching a character, you simply want to transfer fully leveled horses from your high ranking, older toons, to your newer toons.

Sure, if you want to spend 42,000 gold just to respec a single skill. Great design there.

Easier to delete, and start again.

Aside from it being confirmed that re-spec costs will be dramatically reduced (and too, you can't have 420 skill points to be required to pay 42k anyway)...

If you're at a level where your respec is anywhere near costing 20-30k, you'd be crazy to just delete the toon and start over. Losing the horse would be the least of your worries.

twev · July 2014

gunplummer wrote: »

The horse is a bigger money sink then the bank. Sure you can get 20 extra bank spaces for 12k, but if you didn't buy the imperial edition you don;t get the 1 gold horse. The other problem is to buy a horse worth anything will cost you 42k plus another 12k for upgrades.

They need to offer either a respec for horses, transfer to another character, or a one time purchase then all characters can pick that horse to buy for 1 gold. The "let's bind everything on equip" concept is just irritating.

I don't mind 'Bind to account'.

'Bind to character' is kind of a serious PITA.

Vuron · July 2014

Please, please, please, let us share horses between characters.

I started an alt recently and, literally, the worst part is starting with no horse. I'm dreading having to spend 2 months leveling another 2 horses.

nerevarine1138 · July 2014

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Dovel wrote: »

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

This has nothing to do with botching a character, you simply want to transfer fully leveled horses from your high ranking, older toons, to your newer toons.

Sure, if you want to spend 42,000 gold just to respec a single skill. Great design there.

Easier to delete, and start again.

Aside from it being confirmed that re-spec costs will be dramatically reduced (and too, you can't have 420 skill points to be required to pay 42k anyway)...

If you're at a level where your respec is anywhere near costing 20-30k, you'd be crazy to just delete the toon and start over. Losing the horse would be the least of your worries.

This.

I'm still struggling to think of a situation where you would have leveled a horse enough that it would be worth keeping it but you couldn't afford a simple respec. I've only had to respec once, and it was because I decided to switch from provisioning to enchanting. There's really no other reason you should have to, because everything else can just be leveled up, and there are enough skill points in the game to do it without a respec.

Amylar · July 2014

I agree, let us share horse with other new characters

Logan9a · July 2014

An excellent thought, OP.

gunplummer · July 2014

I agree with the bind to account, horses should be no different then any other piece of equipment. You only have a few horses to choose from so being able to swap horses between characters just makes sense. I have 4 horses on my main for different situations PvP for stamina, speed for questing, pack mule for harvesting/crafting and one just to look cool riding (I like to match armor and horse colors).

kassandratheclericb14_ESO · July 2014

twev wrote: »

kassandratheclericb14_ESO wrote: »

twev wrote: »

dharbert wrote: »

How do you botch a character to the point where you feel you must delete it? You do know that you can respec everything, right?

There is nothing that you can do to your character that can't be undone. Nothing.

Well, except for that whole "making an EP Orc when you wanted an AD Bosmer......" thing, sure....

So you didn't notice pretty early on that Orc was picked and not Bosmer?

Yeah, I realized I 'd worded that poorly right after I posted, but... what the heck....

The concept I was thinking but hadn't conveyed was that one could play a character for a bit and discover that the racial traits were not working out the way one had hoped.

I agree with you that being annoyed at making the race wrong because of stupidity was a trivial and poor example.

Fair enough.

Though perhaps instead of having all horses shared they could have some special mounts that get earned in game as account bound and some not.

Joru_TheDamager · August 2014

This is how I envision it to work:
The stables will work like a bank for horses. Each slot you buy at the stables is one slot for a horse. Horse(s) parked in the stable are in essence in a bank accessible
buy all your characters. A character that wishes to use a horse in the stable, must withdraw the horse. The horse then goes to that characters stable, for use. This system is good because it is still best for all characters to have their own horse. However, transferring horses is still possible, it would be quite inconvenient to only have one horse for 8 characters.