127318-account-inventory-mounts-usable-at-level-3

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after digging around in my account inventory on some of my lower level characters i noticed that my sub 25 characters are able to obtain and use the Plasmatic Hyperboard mount and my sub 15 toons are able to use both the Retroblade Mount and Plasmatic Hyperboard...
the mounts now also say "required level 3" instead of 15 and 25.
i am curious as to why they were changed to be usable outside of the tutorial zones and when this was done?	
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The reason, not sure.
 
This last patch, the notes revealed it.
 
 
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/127195-game-update-02-june-2015/	
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This was done in the patch on Tuesday. Here it is in the patchnotes:
 
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Mounts
Ground Mounts, Hoverboards, and their respective customization pieces may now be learned at level 3.
If in possession of a mount that is already learned, a tooltip will display when hovering over the mount unlock item informing the player that they have already learned the item.
 
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			The way it sounded to me (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is you can learn the mounts, but that's not the same as using them to ride around. If you can ride at lvl 3 that's weird, but if you can just learn them to get them out of your inventory, that makes sense. That way you can mail BoE mounts to new alts, or claim them from account level stuff, or buy them from the game store, but not have them clogging your inventory or accidentally getting deleted.	
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this change doesn't affect gameplay at all (especially since you can now "rent a mount" right away).
 
but the reason is probably because: you don't want to gate the cash shop.	
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This was done in the patch on Tuesday. Here it is in the patchnotes:
 
 
Not sure why exactly it was done though.
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The way it sounded to me (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is you can learn the mounts, but that's not the same as using them to ride around. If you can ride at lvl 3 that's weird, but if you can just learn them to get them out of your inventory, that makes sense. That way you can mail BoE mounts to new alts, or claim them from account level stuff, or buy them from the game store, but not have them clogging your inventory or accidentally getting deleted.
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this change doesn't affect gameplay at all (especially since you can now "rent a mount" right away).
 
but the reason is probably because: you don't want to gate the cash shop.
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I actually hadn't thought about it like that but that is a good point.
 
I was thinking it was related to all the feedback from newer players saying how questing was slow and dull. Giving them mounts right off the arkship would help them out, even for just a bit.
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This is just a normal F2P cash shop move, Carbine would have been silly to let the opportunity go to waste! I'm sure they are hoping lots of the F2P crowd want a nice shiny hover board when they set foot on Nexus  	
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Normal. Tera did the same thing at launch. My Limited Edition white lion mount was only able to be rode at level 20. Later they removed it. Now a days you see people in the starter areas with mounts. My friend was complaining about the ground mount thing when she joined. Why can't she use one she would ask. Why does she have to rent on first she would also ask.
 
So yeah. Typical. I am sure she was not the only one who complained about it. This may have been a move implemented in the future even if we did not have free to play coming.	
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It's a good in-game advertising move because the new F2P players probably won't have access to some of the fancier mounts so if they see us zipping around on hot pink  boards, for example, while they're stuck on the same looking mount as every other new player is on then learn there are fancy, reasonably priced, mounts in cash shop that'll send some players there just for that.
 
I just have to not notice the pretty mounts in cash shop or I'll end up in the typical cash shop spiral and....
 	
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