I can kind of understand the sentiment here. At this point I rarely run anywhere. I’d sooner recall to my house and teleport again even if its a short distance, because why not? Some places really did need fast travel points though. Southwest Cutlass Keys was just a terrible experience to go down to. Game just needs mounts if they make fast travel less available. Running simulator is boring, but seeing people actually in the world is part of what makes an MMO feel alive. Without that and everyone just teleporting everywhere its just a lobby game.
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i completely agree
Mounts should not become a requirement in the competition for resource spawns. They should not have any speed increase over running/walking unless ore/wyrdwood/ironwood/motes/fiber/silk/wireweave all become instanced with per-player respawn timers.
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The game is laggy enough, and tbh we don’t need mounts, this isn’t wow.
i like having mounts. but if they add these, they must remove the shrines. leave the shrines near expedition, maybe 1 extra for smaller zones and 2-3 for brimstone. in this way mounts have their uses to explore aternum
people dont realize that on launch when everyone was walking places and nobody was fast travelling everywhere, open world pvp was at its peak. nobody has any incentive to run around anymore because of how dumbed-down they made the game so open world pvp is just nonexistent
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That’s devs issue since day 1, being late at banning bots… Because from normal players there is no competition at farming resources no matter on what server you are located, those are fairytales.
So, mounts should have a speed of 125-150% depending of the mount tier (style) & which to have stamina. ALSO, devs fault here too, while running stamina should consume as well, ofc not so much like when dodge.
bECAusE OTher mmO’S HAvE mOUNTs, so nEw woRLd ALsO nEEDs TheM
Because AGS thinks they will attract more players. When in reality, the ones who called for mounts have quit.
It’s another example of them trying to appease the masses and ignoring their core player base.
I haven’t had to report a bot in a few months, but I have lost on resource spawns many times to other players racing at them from a different direction; if this is a fairy tale, it’s a pretty bad one.
Also, the best time to prevent something from going off the rails is before it has a chance to. Look at WoW - and mount speed differential just between tiers of mounts. Try being an herbalist there and you’ll end up hating every other herbalist with a faster mount.
Mounts should not provide ANY advantage in resource farming, ergo, they should not have a speed increase over running. They should not be a requirement to farm, and if they have a speed advantage, they will be.
I love that when I bring this up, the knee jerk response is never to agree with making resources less competitive or adding instancing of resources so that the opportunity for everyone to get a specific amount of resources given a specific amount of time without being affected by other players — at which point no one cares what speed people move at when it comes to resources — It’s always to whine about how mounts should be faster than running and how it won’t affect anything negatively. It clearly will.
If you want to move faster through the world, then use the shrines.
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Maybe you on a dead server, on my server players calling bots everyday, my blocklist is full of them, no matter where i go if i need a resource i see that bot patrolling and hitting in air on nodes which he looted earlier or someone else before he got there. I even race with with them to reach to the nodes, it’s hilarious… devs failing to come with a solution like making rss spawn random & actually apply what advertised with Brimstone half a year ago “frequent bot bans”.
So you can’t say that the mounts should not have higher travel speed than the player characters when the game is so broken, fix the game then otherwise don’t even need to bother to release mounts at all. Every game with any other specie that can be mounted is faster than a human, well maybe if you ride a gary snail, donkey, camel or idk what else is there can be slower than a human (which i consider that the game should have slower mounts but which to hold a lot of resources 1k+).
Fast travel teleportation/shrines/towns: should be improved as well, by letting players to teleport from wherever they are and go from A to B directly, not A-C-D…-B… When have a quest to deliver to an area where i have no house/inn i should go there directly to the closest shrine without teleporting to somewhere else 1st then teleport again… geez.
Are you sending evidence of these bots to the devs? I have characters on the 2 highest pop servers and haven’t seen any bots nor any “players calling bots”.
I can’t wait for mounts!
We have the alligators with the saddles on them already. I think those would be cool, but I’d settle for a nice horse with some saddle bags. Maybe different breeds of horses. Clydesdales, Arabians, Mustangs. That could be cool.
I think it would be super cool if we had a 2 person mount with a driver and a rider sitting on a small 2 wheeled cart being pulled by a single horse.
I think it would uber cool if we had a 5/6 person mount stagecoach being pulled by 2 horses.
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I love that idea.
I think that AoC devs have in mind to implement something similar, if AG devs hurry up they could take the lead easily.
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Sorry but i do not work for Amazon Games, we are customers and some of us r even investors.
Amazon should have live support in them game, a petition/ticket & GM’s to come investigate any issue.
I used to do that before, had (maybe still have on my youtube account bunch of videos where i wasted my time recording bots behaviour, i opened tickets to support & the bots was still there weeks later so yeah awful support; not to mention that on some of the tickets the support was clueless i was getting replies from Lost Ark hahaha…). Later my dead server (Dry Tree) got merged and bots been transferred as well… pretty good job so far… so i transferred to a less popular/legacy server & even made an alt on a FSS server (where bots lurking since opening day btw, the bots plague is everywhere as in LA-Bots Ark).
But yeah, the idea is that releasing mounts should not be influenced by broken game stuffs, and to avoid certain exploits that can be easy managed (for example if you are in open world with pvp on you should not be able to use the mounts).
Also the person that is afraid about competition while gathering-rushing to resources, that can be easy addressed as well: mounting animation + increase in speed (not press a key and mount pop out of nothing & instant ride it at its highest speed). So it will be slower & pointless to use your mount to run X meters than just running your character. Similar mount system like is in Conan Exile & Red Dead Redemption, just 2 i’ve played & have great mount systems.
So you are happy with the amount of bots on your server then?
What are AGS supposed to do then? There are multiple accounts of either no sight of bots in the last few months or the only possible bots seen are less than level 20 (so less than a few hours old). Unsubstantiated claims of cheating caused many problems during the first few months after launch, so just sitting here on the forums saying there are loads of bots is pointless.
What other companies, even smaller than Amazon & with F2P games, doing for decades…
Yea there is to many of them now in some areas. You have new shrine like every 500m or so.
I hope they Remove atleast half Ahrines with introducion of mounts
Mounts objectively weaken the experience of the “world.” You may or not care about this.
Mounts objectively complicate open world PvP. Again, you may or may not care about this.
Mounts objectively clutter up hub spots, making it irritating to run to the stash without someone’s 39.99 sparkle unicorn getting in the way of key points. I hated going to Org in wow.
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