PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Avathius on February 23, 2011, 03:56:30 am
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Ok, I know Planeshift is about as far from WoW as any game could ever be, but why can't mounts just be purchased? It's crap how you have to first get the ring of familiar and THEN go through a stupid quest chain and do the stupid winch quests which suck because my computer lags so much and it takes 10 minutes to load each zone, and there is a lot of travel involved. I don't think a mount is worth all the crap you go through to get it. Why can't PS be sensible and just have purchasable mounts that cost a ton of money? Or maybe there's an option to tame your mount?
It just p****s me off!
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Just out of interest, why would you want a mount in the first place?
- Nova
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maybe your computer is too old or uses chips not developed for games...
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to answer why, it was probably a majority vote
and most people if not all people, who play, like how the mounts are set up, sure there could be improvments, but i like the idea, of questing for pets, that you get to keep, and summon when you want wherever you want
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Well, before the pterosaurs, mounts were a great thing to have to travel faster. They really came in handy. Now, they aren't really necessary, but they still greatly speed up travel for people who are on a time-crunch.
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Yay for tamed ulbernauts! \\o//
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Tamed velnishi would be faster :)
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wouldn't it be more realistic if you could just purchase a mount from a stable master or someone?
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Yeah. It would. I really, really think that mounts should either be: trained from a baby rivnak/drifter. It would take ALOT of time. More then doing the quests, but would be more realistic. OR, people could pay ALOT of tria from a stable master/another player who trains baby mounts. It would also add a completely new element to PS's economy.
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Yeah. It would. I really, really think that mounts should either be: trained from a baby rivnak/drifter. It would take ALOT of time. More then doing the quests, but would be more realistic. OR, people could pay ALOT of tria from a stable master/another player who trains baby mounts. It would also add a completely new element to PS's economy.
That is a very interesting idea! Would give rangers more to do. :thumbup:
- Nova
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Yeah. It would. I really, really think that mounts should either be: trained from a baby rivnak/drifter. It would take ALOT of time. More then doing the quests, but would be more realistic. OR, people could pay ALOT of tria from a stable master/another player who trains baby mounts. It would also add a completely new element to PS's economy.
Not a bad idea, bro :thumbup: Help with the tria-sinks that are being asked-after...
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dose anyone know how to get mounts since the new update? cuz no i have no idea where to start? i have a ring. thats it:P
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dose anyone know how to get mounts since the new update? cuz no i have no idea where to start? i have a ring. thats it:P
Ask in the game and role play it so don't just ask in Gossip. Someone will help you out.
Majority vote...? I never placed any vote on mounts did you?
I do side on the fact how silly it's thought out. You need a mount to get places fast and to make life easier, so you can DO the harder quests, but now you have to do the hard quests to get the mount, so once you got the mount it's basically useless for questing. And also Pterosaurs are far too expensive to make me ever want to use them (Other than going to Amdeneir). I do like your idea Mekora, and Sarras paying around 100k-200k for a mount from a stable master or work hard for it yourself.
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... how to get mounts since the new update?
Why, did that change? I assume that the start is still the same as before the update?
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Yeah. It would. I really, really think that mounts should either be: trained from a baby rivnak/drifter. It would take ALOT of time. More then doing the quests, but would be more realistic. OR, people could pay ALOT of tria from a stable master/another player who trains baby mounts. It would also add a completely new element to PS's economy.
Is this what you're talking about?
Alot. (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S8TRIo4br3I/AAAAAAAACv4/Zh7_GcMlRKo/s1600/ALOT.png)
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maybe your computer is too old or uses chips not developed for games...
My computer is a Mac that is 2 years old. For some reason it is able to run WoW without any lag, but not Planeshift.
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Current development policy (as far as new items and features are concerned) is based on a very inefficient approach (or lack of) at keeping a player-basis. The mounts are a good example, since they're only attainable for anyone who has the patience to keep up with the quests.
In medieval times some peasants could get mounts of a lesser status, like donkeys and some skinny horses. In PS you need to walk the Dome back and forth at least a 100 times.
That's why I'm not getting a mount. That and the fact that they're mostly useful to do quests... Which I don't like doing anyway, since their contribute to my roleplaying is almost null.
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I agree with Mekora's idea, but to add to it, I think an option to quest for a mount would be good, just for those that like to quest.
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I just think you should have to quest for some more-let's say, elaborate?-mounts, like drifters. But Rivnaks seem more like beasts of burden to me. In some quest dialogues, they are actually referred to as kind of like llamas. I don't see why I should travel back and forth across Yliakum, spend a lot of money, and have to get winch access for that.
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maybe your computer is too old or uses chips not developed for games...
My computer is a Mac that is 2 years old. For some reason it is able to run WoW without any lag, but not Planeshift.
2 years then you probably hit the second part of the sentence: intel video cards aren't cards for gaming.
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It's still lame to be able to play WoW and not PS. It's not a choice many would make.
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you can always use rlcompat...
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What's that?
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the old rendermanager
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Nice. How do I do that?
I could really do without the new one, I use it in minimum anyways.
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you could lose textures in some places anyway search unshadowed in the config file and replace with rlcompat (only after the = not before)
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Sangwa, Sangwa, Sangwa... ::)
Search the board for "rlcompat".
Find verbose explanations in threads like: Re: Severe Performance drop after loggin in on the server (http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=39090.msg442423#msg442423)
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Well, I don't need to search for it now, I guess. I didn't do it sooner because tech stuff always sounds intangible to me.
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/me hugs her rivnak and makes big watery Enki eyes
/me hugs her rivnak and makes big watery Enki eyes
/me hugs his rivnak and makes big watery Enki eyes