Nice idea but not practical in an MMO where performance and lag are already issues.
Many ideas do not translate well from a single player game to an MMO.

Having the horses stay in the world when you're not using them would cause a lot of lag. It works in Skyrim (and Oblivion) because there's just one horse for the game to keep track of (and because it's not online). When there's 20 or 30 in a town it's a lot of models to display.

Also one big advantage this system has over Skyrim is forgetful people like me never have to come out of a dungeon or cave or whatever and spend ages searching for their horse (which is twice as annoying because it always seems to be night when I finish exploring in that game).

It would be nice if they could do something like Dragon Age Inquisition does, where the horse appears a few feet behind you and walks up, as if it was following you the whole time. But I'm not sure if that would also cause a lot of problems.

Danikat wrote: »

It would be nice if they could do something like Dragon Age Inquisition does, where the horse appears a few feet behind you and walks up, as if it was following you the whole time. But I'm not sure if that would also cause a lot of problems.

Yep that could be awesome!

Nic727 wrote: »

Hi,

I don't have the game yet (waiting console version) but I saw some videos and what I think should be improved is how mounts are appearing. Now you jsut have to whistle and your mount is appearing just like that.
What I recommand is when you whistle, the mount is coming from somewhere else to look more natural. Maybe behind a house and is coming on you or something else like that.
Another thing could be to make that like Skyrim where you have stables to put or take your mount and when you disembark it in a battle, he go away and if it's somewhere without enemies, he just stay here. Like that when you explore, he stay there and you just have to go back to travel with your mount again

What do you think?

Totally off topic question. If you don't have the game yet... how are you on the forums? I'm just wondering, I thought you got the forum account after purchasing the game

Nic727 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Totally off topic question. If you don't have the game yet... how are you on the forums? I'm just wondering, I thought you got the forum account after purchasing the game

Hi,

we were unable to post, but since Tamriel Unlimited, we can post again. We were blocked since february 18th, 2014.

A topic about that : http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/1639442

I understood anyone who OWNED the game, just didn't have a sub anymore could now post. Weird. Alright cool! I was just curious

Gidorick wrote: »

I think they could have it to where you see your mount stay and no one else's.... would barely have any performance hit at all.

Good idea!

GreySix wrote: »

Xendyn wrote: »

Nice idea but not practical in an MMO where performance and lag are already issues.
Many ideas do not translate well from a single player game to an MMO.

Concur. While nice in theory, it wouldn't be practical in an MMO.

It could be completely practical in an MMO... an MMO doesn't HAVE to be a PVP Grindquest that's a rush to end game... an MMO RPG could be a vibrant deep experience where players from all over the world experience the same world together.

It's the type of thinking that an MMO is what it is and can't be anything else that has lead to many of ESO failings. There is always... ALWAYS ways to implement concepts, ZOS just needs to be clever about it.

I would like something more realistic than what we have now. For exemple, mount should appear out of the screen and come to you. Same thing when you disembark... The horse is just running away from the screen.

Or something like Skyrim, but only you can see your horse (because it will be buggy if you see 100 horses lol), but when you embark on it, people can see you mount on him.

it might be too troublesome if horse work like in oblivion/skyrim.. i mean i rarely ever use horse in oblivion/skyrim..

Biggest problem would be in PvP lol. Can you imagine two entire raids mounting? xD

Gidorick wrote: »

I think it could work... if done properly. @Nic727 Here are two threads where I have proposed more immersive mounts:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/159507/advanced-mounts-overhaul-concept
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/165659/tangible-mounts-advanced-concept

I love the idea of first person riding

Gidorick wrote: »

Well you're in luck @Nic727! The following addon was just released on 4/19!

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1048-ImmersiveHorseRiding.html

Cool, but I'm on console, so I will wait an official update. I don't know why they are just not taking this mod and put it in the game...

Did you read my tangible mounts concept @PKMN12?

Also, what would be causing the lag, exactly? I recommend the tangibilty be toggled off in Cyrodiil, like pets.

What was cause lag is that every mount owned by every player would stay in the world even when not in use. So in a crowded town where the majority of objects the game is having to load are players that would effectively double the load on the server.

It's nothing to do with MMOs being "PVP grindfests", it's to do with the limitations of the technology. There's a lot of complaints about lag in this game already and even ZOS have expressed concerns about it so it's not just a few people with poor internet connections complaining over and over. I think at this point it's extremely unlikely they would consider doing anything that's going to add to the problem.

Tangible mounts could lead to many MANY crown store purchases. Justification enough.

"Can't" is just a word those that don't know how to use.