Yeah fair point, its not so much about the money for me as it is the 50 day wait to max a horse on a new character. But as someone said there is not many gold sinks so they will keep horses per character. So I see both sides, I just wish there was a way to buy lvs with no day waits.

Horses are a cash sink, so will always be single character only.
I personally think they should just add more types of mounts, that way it stays interesting.

The main issue is not cash, since after you get a few alts high enough you can get most of the horses after a few weeks saving (Imperial and cash shop are exceptions, because one is cheap and other is real cash). It's just the time, and people have suggested faster levelling for them, and I now get why.

Not a good idea --- this game is shy on gold sinks, taking away a large portion of the gold spent on Horses would be pretty bad... at least as it is now where there's nothing to spend gold on once Horses and Inventory are maxed out.

I would pay 2 beeelion gold to have the bag space on each character act as a bank at the stable. I dislike constant relogs more than just about anything else in this game! It would also make it easier to swap bag horse for fasssssssttt! horse.

MornaBaine wrote: »

I don't know yet because I haven't tried it but I've heard that if you increase the carrying capacity of your horse, but then switch to a different horse and stable the first one, you actually lose the extra spots you you acquired by upping the carry capacity of that horse. In other words, the hose with the additional carrying capacity has to be "equipped" in order for you to HAVE the space doing so gives you. If true, that makes no sense to me. It makes it pointless to have a mount you've leveled up to carry more stuff AND having one you built for speed. I'm PAYING for both! So what gives? Again, haven't done it yet so I'm not sure if it's true. Anyone know?

Yes it is true. You can only have 1 active mount and if you swap out a draft horse and make a speed horse your active mount you will lose the extra space you had as you are no longer using the draft horse.

MornaBaine wrote: »

I don't know yet because I haven't tried it but I've heard that if you increase the carrying capacity of your horse, but then switch to a different horse and stable the first one, you actually lose the extra spots you you acquired by upping the carry capacity of that horse. In other words, the hose with the additional carrying capacity has to be "equipped" in order for you to HAVE the space doing so gives you. If true, that makes no sense to me. It makes it pointless to have a mount you've leveled up to carry more stuff AND having one you built for speed. I'm PAYING for both! So what gives? Again, haven't done it yet so I'm not sure if it's true. Anyone know?

It makes sense if you think about it... it IS a different horse. The only thing I'm thinking of for changing this would be maybe making the carrying capacity based off of what kind of saddle you have for your horse so that then when you change horses, you obviously just switch saddle's and good to go

Nestor wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

I don't know yet because I haven't tried it but I've heard that if you increase the carrying capacity of your horse, but then switch to a different horse and stable the first one, you actually lose the extra spots you you acquired by upping the carry capacity of that horse.

Yes, you only have the bag space of the active horse in your stable. In fact, if you try to use a horse that gives you less over all bag space than you need, you can't even swap to the other horse until you reduce your item count in inventory.

In other words, you have 50 bag spaces on the horse, 130 on your character, and you have 170 items total on your character, you can only swap to a horse with 40 bag slots. Or you have to drop some things at the bank if you have say a horse that is all speed and no bags to get below 130 items/stacks.

Well fiddlesticks! I guess I'll just stick with making my bank alts have fat slow ponies that can carry a lot of stuff and my main gets the speedy horse with far less carrying capacity. But this also means it's highly unlikely I'll ever buy more than one horse per character. What would be the point?

diabeticDemon18 wrote: »

One of them is highly focused on stamina so if I plan on traveling a long distance I will use him,

Just so you know, you can gallop with your horse long after they lose Stamina.

Having no stamina just means you can get hit a couple of times before you get knocked off. In my experience, I have only been able to stay on the horse one time getting while getting hit, and that was just after I got on, kicked it into high gear but did not notice the mob. Most of the time, it's one hit stay then the second one knocks me off.

There might be a point on the stamina bar where you don't get knocked off, but in my experience half full stamina bar or less, your getting knocked off.

MornaBaine wrote: »

Well fiddlesticks! I guess I'll just stick with making my bank alts have fat slow ponies that can carry a lot of stuff and my main gets the speedy horse with far less carrying capacity. But this also means it's highly unlikely I'll ever buy more than one horse per character. What would be the point?

I have Horses for my Mules (that just sounds so weird now that I have written it, but lets get past just how weird this sounds) and it is almost unbelievable how slow their unleveled horses are. I don't even get on them anymore. Note, I had the Imp edition so the horse was just one gold for the mules. That still seems weird the second time around.