The only game I have played that flying mounts worked well in is Everquest 2. In ESO however I don't think it would work because as may have stated it just isn't built that way and it would completely ruin the feel of the gameplay if it was ever introduced.

As someone else mentioned there are already to many Bears etc getting in the way at Merchants/Shrines & Crafting stations now (I do wish people would put them away in these areas).

They would have to rescale Cyrodiil to compensate, and how massively boring would that be trying to walk a 5x distance Cyro when you get 'Can't mount in combat' message.

I don't think that would work and it would clutter up worldspaces.

From what I can see of the game, it does not have that much support for "y axis" travel - meaning it would have a LOT of impact on the entire engine to add in something like this. I think it may not be worth the effort.

Not to mention the whole thing that the world is meant to be explored on foot, for example think of vardenfel, much of that map is covered by areas that are completely inaccessible on foot due to mountains -- being able to fly would detract a lot from the overall immersion of the game because you'd hit invisible walls all the time unless they redid basically the entire world to support it in terms of the map.

Like, think about it: They never intended for flying, so when designing the world they didn't design it to support people being on top of places like the vardenfel inner volcano - they just made a steep mountain and called it a day. If they allowed flying, people should logically be able to fly all the way to the top of the volcano (which to the best of my knowledge was never intended to be accessed meaning that there is likely no physics there) -- there must be hundreds if not thousands of examples of this that would make adding flying a extremely tedious task for map makers too.

Also, being able to fly would all but remove the challenge of exploring the map - fighting your way through zones etc.

tl;dr: Engine would need A LOT of work, entire sections of the world would need to be remade, probably not worth the resources required to add a feature like this.

redspecter23 wrote: »

The game world isn't built for it. It's designed around ground based mounts. Not only would they have to redesign all the terrain and quest chains to take into account the fact that you're flying over intentionally placed obstacles, but they need to do something about all those pesky zones and load seams between them as you'd fly up high enough and the map would basically lose all meaning quickly.

The zones is ESO way to make servers. Then you enter an zone you enter an new server.
This is basic for the mega server system who let you have one huge community rater than 50 servers.

No absolutely not.

With all the wayshrines, free port to friends/guildies, free house ports, I don't really think they are needed.

That said, the kid in me wants netch and siltstrider mounts.

Yes, I can completely skip the Slaughterfish and the bridge to Alessia.
I want to be able to mount a ballista on my mount as well.