Do You Want Flying Mounts

UrQuan · August 2014

Inspired by the discussion in a recent thread, I thought I'd make it a poll. Do you want flying mounts in ESO?

kieso · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

You made a poll to vote no? Me so confused!

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

Personally I don't want them because I don't see any reasonable way to make them lore-friendly. I also believe that the maps were specifically designed with the idea that there would be no flying, and that all sorts of problems (including exploits in Cyrodil) would be introduced by flying mounts, but lore is my primary reason for not wanting them.

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

kieso wrote: »

You made a poll to vote no? Me so confused!

Yes, because I'm interested in knowing how the forum community as a whole feels about this issue. I know where I stand on it - I'm curious to know where others stand.

pitdemon_ESO · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

No, and I wish horrible things to befall whoever wants flying mounts in ESO.

Horrible, horrible things

Potenza · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Nox_Aeterna · August 2014

I don't care one way or the other

Really dont care.

I did enjoy flying over regions in WoW , quite a new way to look at them , but i dont consider it a must have or anything , just a nice thing to do.

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

arena25 · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

You've gotta be kidding me...

OP, did you read up on your lore? Dragon flying was only possible in Skyrim, and that was in the 4th era, so no. Now, please excuse me while I go take a nap...

Nox_Aeterna · August 2014

I don't care one way or the other

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

That is the second most common argument you will see against pretty much anything in this game.

The most common would be "it breaks immersion".

Neither really matter to me much , since unless they totally break lore with something really absurd ( guns like a thread asked for) im fine with it ( would not mind they making an excuse and adding dragons for example) and immersion is not something i really care for in ESO, i do mind in the single player TES games , but not much in a MMO.

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

arena25 wrote: »

You've gotta be kidding me...

OP, did you read up on your lore? Dragon flying was only possible in Skyrim, and that was in the 4th era, so no. Now, please excuse me while I go take a nap...

Um, I'm the OP. In case you didn't notice I voted the same way you did.

TheDude916 · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

As much as I want to see more mounted options I do NOT want to see the airborne variety. My "mounted" dream you ask? And keep your mind out of the gutter.

Riding a dinosaur of course. Or maybe mammoth or panther. How about jousting or arching from a moving horse! Oh oh...and chariots!

There's so much potential with land critters, so let's not funk up the game with flight.

Potenza · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

You might be right that that is the most common argument against flying mounts. But there are others too.

They can create lore to fit just about anything they want to put in the game. So it falls more to just whether or not you would like it to be implemented. Whether or not it fits with the franchise is a separate issue.

Adding the issue of lore with your poll suggests to me that your are trying to cancel that issue out before hand.

MorHawk · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

I would have thought that, given there are plenty of flying creatures in ESO, that lore is a trivial issue here. Gameplay issues are far more significant. Skipping content you would otherwise be forced to fight through, getting into safe zones in Cyrodiil, exposing previously undiscovered glitches - it would require a major revamp of the game. It's just all kinds of bad.

Azzuria · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

No.

Not ever. No.

Not even remotely. No.

Do not even begin to ponder the idea of maybe thinking about it. NO.

NO.

Sallington · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

I'd rather have no mounts at all than have flying mounts included.

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

You might be right that that is the most common argument against flying mounts. But there are others too.

They can create lore to fit just about anything they want to put in the game. So it falls more to just whether or not you would like it to be implemented. Whether or not it fits with the franchise is a separate issue.

Adding the issue of lore with your poll suggests to me that your are trying to cancel that issue out before hand.

Nope, just trying to see if the reasons why people do or don't want flying mounts are lore-related. For me the reason why i don't want them is primarily because of lore, but I recognize that not everyone cares about the lore (or not enough to override their feelings on a gameplay issue anyway), so I was curious to see where people who care about the lore end up on the issue and where people who don't end up on the issue.

Anvos · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

No as other than silt striders and tamed netch there really aren't any flying creatures that we have seen that are tamable and abundant enough to serve as flying mounts.

Thus for alliances other than the EP we'd just have to make random stuff up.

Plus I'm not sure there would be any real benefit.

Inversus · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

I ticked this option but I also would have liked to tick "No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly" at the same time

firstly it would look awful in the game, it would be ridiculous to have players flying around just... just no
and then, secondly, lore

Enkil · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

No No NO

Super_Sonico · August 2014

My thoughts on mounts in general:

1 - Ban them from being used in town. I hate seeing people riding horses right up to the bank door. It's tacky and it breaks immersion. The way people use horses in the game is an eyesore. If flying mounts were introduced they would need to find a way to do them in an elegant manner that doesn't reproduce the tackiness of horses.

2 - What about other mounts? There's plenty of other creatures that could be used for mounts before they introduced flying mounts. I want an over-sized mudcrab to ride! Horses are so Arthurian. I would KILL for a chocobo!

3 - Dragons as mounts would be cool. They'd be especially cool if they could also be used as pets/familiars and could fight like the mage familiars do. That would be worth exploring. Opens up the whole possibility of aerial combat in PvP. I don't know what the lore has to say about this issue, but I bet it's minor and could be worked around. This would be fun.

Cyberdown · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

not being lore friendly aside...

the whole TES feel is walking about a huge world.

Sindala · August 2014

Whoever votes yes to this should delete their accounts straight away out of 'common decency' for the greater good.
You don't belong here so stop wasting yours and our time.

Thechemicals · August 2014

Yes - only if a lore-friendly explanation can be found

I wouldnt mind riding a flying mudcrab or flying dog but beyond that i think it would be too much.

Potenza · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

You might be right that that is the most common argument against flying mounts. But there are others too.

They can create lore to fit just about anything they want to put in the game. So it falls more to just whether or not you would like it to be implemented. Whether or not it fits with the franchise is a separate issue.

Adding the issue of lore with your poll suggests to me that your are trying to cancel that issue out before hand.

Nope, just trying to see if the reasons why people do or don't want flying mounts are lore-related. For me the reason why i don't want them is primarily because of lore, but I recognize that not everyone cares about the lore (or not enough to override their feelings on a gameplay issue anyway), so I was curious to see where people who care about the lore end up on the issue and where people who don't end up on the issue.

Yep I see that. To me its no to flying mounts. I care about lore, but to me it has nothing to do with whether or not it effects the lore. The flying mounts would just negate the current traveling system of wayshrines. I enjoy the current system of the wayshrines.

WyndStryke · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

Both, rather than just the one. a) it doesn't fit the lore, and b) it doesn't fit the game design either. And c), ... lets not turn this game into a WoW clone.

Inversus · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

Super_Sonico wrote: »

1 - Ban them from being used in town. I hate seeing people riding horses right up to the bank door. It's tacky and it breaks immersion.

2 - I want an over-sized mudcrab to ride!
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I think oversized mudcrabs being ridden through towns would break immersion more for me than horses going too close to the bank

Potenza · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

Super_Sonico wrote: »

My thoughts on mounts in general:

1 - Ban them from being used in town. I hate seeing people riding horses right up to the bank door. It's tacky and it breaks immersion. The way people use horses in the game is an eyesore. If flying mounts were introduced they would need to find a way to do them in an elegant manner that doesn't reproduce the tackiness of horses.

2 - What about other mounts? There's plenty of other creatures that could be used for mounts before they introduced flying mounts. I want an over-sized mudcrab to ride! Horses are so Arthurian. I would KILL for a chocobo!

3 - Dragons as mounts would be cool. They'd be especially cool if they could also be used as pets/familiars and could fight like the mage familiars do. That would be worth exploring. Opens up the whole possibility of aerial combat in PvP. I don't know what the lore has to say about this issue, but I bet it's minor and could be worked around. This would be fun.

We all know what game all of these ideas come from. And no I would not like to see any of this, just because of that. For the horse part - I do ride right up to the door to the bank all the time - my apologies.

sotonin · August 2014

Yes - I don't care if it breaks lore

I want to mount a flying harpy. oh yeah. cue *** music.

KhajitFurTrader · August 2014

No - I don't care about lore, but I don't want flying mounts for another reason

The world of Tamriel in ESO consists of standalone maps for every zone. There is no consistent, continuing landmass at all. Every time you change zones there's going to be a loading screen.

Beyond the maps's edges there's only cheese. Cheese, and Sheogorath. You don't want to fly into cheese, and YOU DO NOT WANT TO FLY INTO SHEOGORATH! Believe me, it's unpleasant beyond description (what he does with cheese). :P

UrQuan · August 2014

No - there's no reasonable way to make it lore-friendly

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I do care about lore but whether or not having flying mounts has nothing to do with it and should not have been associated with lore in your poll.

Why not? That's the most common argument I've seen against flying mounts.

You might be right that that is the most common argument against flying mounts. But there are others too.

They can create lore to fit just about anything they want to put in the game. So it falls more to just whether or not you would like it to be implemented. Whether or not it fits with the franchise is a separate issue.

Adding the issue of lore with your poll suggests to me that your are trying to cancel that issue out before hand.

Nope, just trying to see if the reasons why people do or don't want flying mounts are lore-related. For me the reason why i don't want them is primarily because of lore, but I recognize that not everyone cares about the lore (or not enough to override their feelings on a gameplay issue anyway), so I was curious to see where people who care about the lore end up on the issue and where people who don't end up on the issue.

Yep I see that. To me its no to flying mounts. I care about lore, but to me it has nothing to do with whether or not it effects the lore. The flying mounts would just negate the current traveling system of wayshrines. I enjoy the current system of the wayshrines.

And honestly, comments like that (and several others in this thread) are what I was hoping the lore-based vs non-lore-based choices would prompt. To me it's interesting to see different perspectives on why people selected the way they did. For you it's largely about the wayshrines, and that's something I hadn't really considered.

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