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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Kuiper7986 on June 20, 2003, 04:40:22 pm

Title: Other means of Transportation
Post by: Kuiper7986 on June 20, 2003, 04:40:22 pm: Other than the Pterosaur hopefully there should be some other means of travel.

Maybe a Carriage (probably there will be), Canoe, Boat (probably there will be), Horse?, Airship? (sounds cheesy in a game of this setting...)
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Post by: Jefka on June 20, 2003, 05:07:17 pm: well some kind of airplane why not ; I mean just a balloon nothing with a motor of course ; look at final fantasy, they often have strange airplanes but only a few with motors ; it could be justified by any magicals croll and so on
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Post by: Yann on June 20, 2003, 05:16:53 pm: All i know about this is that we will be able to ride some big lizards... And that sounds very cool to me :P
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Post by: Skain on June 20, 2003, 07:30:21 pm: i still wanna see some kinda motor bike styled animal, fast and small, hence my dragonfly sketches from a-while ago.
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Post by: tygerwilde on June 20, 2003, 07:44:01 pm: hey man, this is an mmorpg not vice city-everquest online ;) could you imagine the skill required to ride something like a dragonfly? acceleration = 0-100 in .003 seconds :p
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Post by: Tepsu on June 20, 2003, 08:35:17 pm: Will there be magical transportation? Teleport spells etc.?
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Post by: Skain on June 20, 2003, 08:46:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by tygerwilde
hey man, this is an mmorpg not vice city-everquest online ;) could you imagine the skill required to ride something like a dragonfly? acceleration = 0-100 in .003 seconds :p

but it would be soo cool, like warp speed where everything goes blurry.

I kinda like that shloopuf thing off ffX, some large animal capable of carrying entire parties and guilds.
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Post by: Jalix Amundus on June 21, 2003, 06:49:39 pm: I just want a perfectly silent lizard with the ability to walk on walls...
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Post by: Xalthar on June 21, 2003, 08:30:45 pm: There\'s also the giant bat cargo carrier creature (forgot the name) other than the pterosaur...

But I think land travel creatures will be added...
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Post by: Bombyz on June 22, 2003, 02:08:59 am: Why not a tame spell?
With that, you could weaken a monster, then tame spell it for it to let you ride it.
A fast, small ride would be good for an overgrown thunder bug.(Read monsters thread). It moves fast, but has a hunk of HP, Rendering it very hard to catch.
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Post by: gonenowhere on June 26, 2003, 09:13:01 pm: no not a tame spell a animal tamer person that can tame stuff and would have to tame stuff small and when you get better in the skill you can tame stuff you shouldnt have to get them half dead to tame enless its hard thing like a dragon or something
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Post by: Caldazar on June 27, 2003, 04:55:56 pm: I agree, no spell. Only taming-skill. But I have to disagree with gonenowhere on the dragon thingy. Dragons shouldnt be tameable. Imagine a wizard riding a red dragon, hurling giant fireballs in every direction. Beatable? Nah..
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Post by: zinder on June 27, 2003, 05:18:55 pm: I think taming the animal shouldnt be enough to ride it.

You should need to train it to ride it (with tame skill). Also for riding, attacks while riding or with the mount you should need a skill like \"ride\" (taming shouldnt allow to ride a creature).
And you (and the monsters) should be able to throw a rider from his mount, especially when he is fighting while riding.
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Post by: Caldazar on June 27, 2003, 05:27:16 pm: Thats what I meant, excpet for the throwing him of his animal thing. But, you dont have to have tame skill to be able to ride an animal, you can buy one :).
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Post by: zinder on June 27, 2003, 05:45:57 pm: With the throwing him from his animal thing, i mean with spells, ranged and hellebard-like weapons you (and monsters) should have a chance to hit the rider, too. And if they hit hard enough the rider fell of his animal.

I think of allowing a rider to use his animal in fight, you know like war elephants or cavalerie.
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Post by: Caldazar on June 27, 2003, 07:26:47 pm: Hmm.. I see you point now, and I like it. BUT, what if, lets say, a ranger (ranged) flies a green dragon (ranged attack), wont that make it impossible for melee\'s to kill them?
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Post by: Xadoo on June 28, 2003, 09:55:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Jalix Amundus
I just want a perfectly silent lizard with the ability to walk on walls...

a matrix-lizard? Weeeiii!
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Post by: zinder on June 29, 2003, 03:05:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Caldazar
Hmm.. I see you point now, and I like it. BUT, what if, lets say, a ranger (ranged) flies a green dragon (ranged attack), wont that make it impossible for melee\'s to kill them?

Yes, that is a problem.
A melee char has problems when he has no similar animal(flying, running) to a ranged attacker. For example he must outrun a horse, to attack a riding ranger.

One way to balance this is a malus for ranged attacks/spells while riding. But for ranged attacks of the mount, i dont know another answer as not allowing that.
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Post by: Yann on June 29, 2003, 03:27:08 pm: I just wanted to say that Charisma should be a major factor in tame skill.
Also try to spend much time with the animal you want to ride would low the difficulty.
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Post by: Commando on July 07, 2003, 01:03:23 pm: There u have the whole Animal tamer job.. First, goto the forest and find that gigant lizard or dragon fly, bring it back home, train it, and sell it expensive to a guild or a person... That would be cool! I whanna my own matrix-lizard ! :D
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Post by: Xalthar on July 07, 2003, 01:46:04 pm: charisma and some strength or dexterity, depending on how big or elusive the creature you want to tame is...

but mainly charisma.. then you could combine your skills in taming with some of the darker arts of magic :P