Bioengineered Mounts as fast as swoop

Anlbrd · Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:19 pm

I want to be blasting around on a mount. Presently they seem a bit useless, like everything else except a swoop or super rare speeder. This would see more content used and give CH's more custom.

KushSan · Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:22 pm

they arent useless. they dont decay, and u can shoot while riding it

+ u can give them a name

edit:

maybe give ch-pets a little boost in stats so they become a thing in pvp again

Royan · Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:29 pm

That shooting while riding part is way more important than you might expect. Animal mounts are very helpful when you run into someone who tries to swim away from danger

Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:38 pm

One issue I can see is... if a creature is as fast as swoop, they won't ever stop chasing a swoop in the wild...

Swoops should be faster than almost (if not) all creatures. We will consider a speed boost for select creatures.

Lasod · Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:49 pm

BigQEd wrote:One issue I can see is... if a creature is as fast as swoop, they won't ever stop chasing a swoop in the wild...

Swoops should be faster than almost (if not) all creatures. We will consider a speed boost for select creatures.

perhaps the gallop command could bring them up to that speed? so its a temporary speed boost?

KushSan · Unread post Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:21 pm

running animation lmao

Peleliu · Unread post Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:47 am

As a CH I use my mounts almost exclusively and am happy with their speeds. I would, however, like to see an increase in the variety of mountable critters.

Anlbrd · Unread post Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:21 am

BigQEd wrote:One issue I can see is... if a creature is as fast as swoop, they won't ever stop chasing a swoop in the wild...

Would there be a way of making this ONLY apply to mounts? Or come on the form of some kind of expensive mount 'modification'?

I'd forgotten about the shooting-from-riding thing. With that in mind I can see why making the speed the same would then make Swoops useless, so the suggestion is totally flawed.

I just miss seeing Bantha's carrying people around

Unread post Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:56 am

Anlbrd wrote:
BigQEd wrote:One issue I can see is... if a creature is as fast as swoop, they won't ever stop chasing a swoop in the wild...
Would there be a way of making this ONLY apply to mounts? Or come on the form of some kind of expensive mount 'modification'?

I'd forgotten about the shooting-from-riding thing. With that in mind I can see why making the speed the same would then make Swoops useless, so the suggestion is totally flawed.

I just miss seeing Bantha's carrying people around

That's his nice way of saying it's not going to happen. No way an animal could compete with a machine speed-wise in the Star Wars universe.

Starhunter · Unread post Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:44 am

Cynar wrote:
That's his nice way of saying it's not going to happen. No way an animal could compete with a machine speed-wise in the Star Wars universe.

Well there's that psychotic Varactyl Obi Wan rides in Ep3, but thankfully they only live on Utapau.

I keep imagining a BE mount that can indeed run as fast as a speeder, but the second you dismount it falls over dead from exhaustion and you need to make a new one. But hey, free woolly hide, right?