Mounts and combat

[Taimh]

Originally Posted by Kethra

To push the thread back on target, what do you guys want to see in mounted combat? Of course, with stability stat, there should be a chance to get knocked off your horse, or maybe even for your horse to get injured.

Keep in mind that combat would be both on land and in the air! Even now, you can get knocked out of the sky by flying creatures if you fly to close to an aggressive flying mob.

I'd love more options in what you're attacking, make more of a bonus to different kinds of mounts, do you want a slow strong one or a fast weak one, you see someone coming towards you, do you attack them or your mount.

Obviously it would be a bit harsh to kill someone elses mount, just knock it unconcious for 5/10 minutes then you can jump on your own horse and run away if they're too strong for you or joust them into a lil red smear.

[Kato]

Theres is a way to stop horses from storing when attacked.

You can buy armor for your horse, that increases stability, but decreases movement speed.

Sadly these are pretty expenssive.

[larscw]

It would be nice if you would be able to buy a horse and train it up to a certain level then make profit doing that.

In a way this would create an animal trainer school in game which i think would be really cool.

In UO there was the taming part and at a point we trained a group of pig which we renamed War Pig and then after they got a GM stat we would release the whole group. This was alot of work and even more fun when you would see how a noob would try to kill such a trained pig. Always a good thing to then help out and explain they were joked at and bring back in the pigs so they won't do anymore harm to other bystanders.

I really can see how an animal trainer school would fit into this game as we have different levels of horses already. Is it possible to have the horse gain too?