115250-flying-mounts

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What do you guys think of Wildstar having flying mounts?
Would it suit the game?	
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			I think it would take away from the world in its current form until it gets bigger. They've also mentioned many times that they will not be adding flying mounts. (If that sounded snarky towards you, please know that wasn't my intent, just couldn't think of a better way to word it.)	
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I do not want them. Not now, maybe not ever. It takes all the fun of exploring away! Where's the fun in climbing the towers in Thayd if you can just fly up there?
 
Edit: I'm sure there's some way it could fit the game. This is futuristic-y and science and all, but I really don't want them lol	
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I have enjoyed flying mechanics in pretty much every mmo that offered them one way or another, I never understood and never will the whole exploring issue...don't want to fly, dont buy one.  
 
I think WS could have done combat flying mounts real well, not everything has to be ground level?  I imagine questing zones, hubs, and avatar style topography floating in the sky layered going up in each zone we have already. 
 
plus top gun kills are fun as hell, nobody was safe in the sky around my engineer balance druid and combat rogue 	
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			Flying mounts in existing zones, no.Personal spaceships in zones designed for them, yes.	
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			I wouldn't mind an area designed for ships, or if we could have our own ships we could design or something...as long as they weren't in the current zones. Especially with Explorer being a path, why be one if you could just fly to all the spots?	
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Flying mounts would be awesome.  A jet pack or Rocket Boots for flying mounts would be especially cool, lets face it, when it comes right down too it, almost none of the people that actively play the game go around exploring ledges for the heck of it ( I know a few that did, but usually it's in zones that you can't mount up in anyway).
 
Flying mounts are perfect for ease of travel when you are trying to do things like your dailies or eldan quests, and  to avoid the taxi (And just about everyone complains about taking the taxi, but they don't want flying mounts (Doesn't make sense))
And also lets face, when you are just standing around town chilling or getting a group together, doing it floating on a mount is pretty cool.	
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I like this idea of flying mounts in zones -designed for them-, because one of the reasons I prefer ground mounts is that it gives the art director control over the grand reveal shot when a player sees a new area for the first time.
If you think back you can probably remember seeing a grand reveal shot in many games. Your character is directed along a road to ensure that when you walk over that last hill, or around that corner, the sight you see of a new city/mountain/ruins is modeled closely after a piece of concept art or storyboard. It's purposeful and an artists chance to really wow the player, create ambiance and set up the scene.
With flying mounts there's no way to control it enough to give the player that one time thrill.	
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We already discussed this long ago. The general player consensus was that it was a bad idea, thus Carbine didn't implement them.
 
Gliders on the other hand...	
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Already a thread on flying mounts ... "search is your friend".\
 
Please merge with the more recent and popular flying mounts thread.	
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			I vote no, because 1, it would destroy what little sense of a world there is, and 2, the game would crap its pants and you'd be flying at 5fps.  :)	
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Personally i don't really get the whole exploration issue, the same point was raised on the Rift forums when speculated they would introduce them in Storm Legion. Exploring is something you want to do then only use a mount after you've fully explored the map. 
 
The bigger problem with flying mounts seem to be with PvP and people flying around with no risk of random PvP encounters on the ground(like WoW for he most part) Personally I wouldn't care if the came to WS-but I don't really see much of a benefit to them either. 	
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How about rocket boots or jetpacks that propel you only for a short while, like the sprint, but then you fall back down.
 
Making big leaps instead of flying.	
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			There are already excising threads discussing flying mounts, quite recently as well.	
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