Flying Mount Rentals perhaps?

[NrthnStar5]

<p>I love flying mounts, especially when leveling up a new toon. Makes it fresh and fun! I know it has been stated that flying mounts would remain a high level item, which is understandable.</p><p>How about putting in a flying mount rental service? There is a lot of options you could do with this. Perhaps rental vendors in each major city that give you a flying mount for a day, for a fee of course. Or flying mount rentals per zone, with flying mounts themed to each zone.</p><p>This would allow low level players the ability to use flying mounts from time to time if they have the coin, while still keeping permanant mounts a high level only feature. </p><p>Thoughts?</p>

[GussJr]

<p><cite>NrthnStar5 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I love flying mounts, especially when leveling up a new toon. Makes it fresh and fun! I know it has been stated that flying mounts would remain a high level item, which is understandable.</p><p>How about putting in a flying mount rental service? There is a lot of options you could do with this. Perhaps rental vendors in each major city that give you a flying mount for a day, for a fee of course. Or flying mount rentals per zone, with flying mounts themed to each zone.</p><p>This would allow low level players the ability to use flying mounts from time to time if they have the coin, while still keeping permanant mounts a high level only feature. </p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p>You can be a lvl 1 adventurer and a lvl 90 tradeskiller and get a flying mount...</p>

[Emmanuelle]

<p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">I was thinking they will start selling the 12h temp flying mousts soon in the SC store as they are beta testing the feature right now with the </span><span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/3918"><span style="color: #0000ff;">COME BACK TO NORRATH AND TAKE FLIGHT IN EVERQUEST II</span></a><span style="color: #fbb901;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;"> Promotion. </span></p></p>

[NrthnStar5]

<p><cite>Emmanuelle@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">I was thinking they will start selling the 12h temp flying mousts soon in the SC store as they are beta testing the feature right now with the </span><span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/3918"><span style="color: #0000ff;">COME BACK TO NORRATH AND TAKE FLIGHT IN EVERQUEST II</span></a><span style="color: #fbb901;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "> Promotion. </span></p></blockquote><p>Well, I do not want to pay real money for it. In game coin is what I would much prefer. Vanguard has a flying mount rental system, however it is only limited to 5 minutes, which to me is way too limited. </p>

[Grong]

<p>Playing my army of alts has become even better with the flying mount promotion.  I have ran through TD, DLW dozens of times and to be able to fly has made it so much more fun I am having a blast.</p><p>I haven't used the marketplace up till now other then claiming this promotion.  I would purchase a flying mount if the y put them on the marketplace-that is how much fun I am having with them for all my alts.</p>

[Kyrm]

<p><cite>GussJr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You can be a lvl 1 adventurer and a lvl 90 tradeskiller and get a flying mount...</p></blockquote><p>*IF* you can get to level 90. Don't assume everyone can, trade or adventure doesn't matter.</p><p>I as a player just came back to EQ2 and SWG in March. I had subscribed years ago and the changes to both games are huge. I am enjoying myself very much and that is what matters to me. There is so much that has been added to EQ2 since I played it years ago it may take me years just to experience the changes lol.</p><p>However I am old now, and I honestly do not see myself making top level in either MMO, which means flying mounts and much of the content NOW being created I will not see. I am disappointed in that, but I am focusing on what I can enjoy.</p><p>There *IS* a base amount of eye-hand coordination, mind thought and decision speed, and such that you need to do content towards the end of any mmo. That's just how it is. I am not asking for sympathy, just remember that there are those that play EQ2 and other mmos that can't play them even as good as most players can when they are tipsy.</p><p>Enjoy the flying mounts, they do look fun <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Roslyn]

<p>Was thinking of VG here too. It has a really nice system with the temp rental flying mounts, they are slower, cost a little bit of money, and it is cool getting around on your alts. So since our new "bell" travel system is identical to VG's, why not incorporate this too? :p</p><p>EDIT: fixed all the past-tense. Even though that game is pretty much past-tense now. /sadface</p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>Kyrm wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>GussJr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote></blockquote><p>*IF* you can get to level 90. Don't assume everyone can, trade or adventure doesn't matter.</p><p>I as a player just came back to EQ2 and SWG in March. I had subscribed years ago and the changes to both games are huge. I am enjoying myself very much and that is what matters to me. There is so much that has been added to EQ2 since I played it years ago it may take me years just to experience the changes lol.</p><p>However I am old now, and I honestly do not see myself making top level in either MMO, which means flying mounts and much of the content NOW being created I will not see. I am disappointed in that, but I am focusing on what I can enjoy.</p><p>There *IS* a base amount of eye-hand coordination, mind thought and decision speed, and such that you need to do content towards the end of any mmo. That's just how it is. I am not asking for sympathy, just remember that there are those that play EQ2 and other mmos that can't play them even as good as most players can when they are tipsy.</p><p>Enjoy the flying mounts, they do look fun <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I am approaching lvl 90 and I don't raid or group much.  I don't spend a lot of time in game.  Claim your XP potions (type /claim in chat, and just do the quests you can.  Before you know it...DING!  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Morrias]

<p><cite>Emmanuelle@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">I was thinking they will start selling the 12h temp flying mousts soon in the SC store as they are beta testing the feature right now with the </span><span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/3918"><span style="color: #0000ff;">COME BACK TO NORRATH AND TAKE FLIGHT IN EVERQUEST II</span></a><span style="color: #fbb901;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "> Promotion. </span></p></blockquote><p>SoE can't sell a flying mount that lets you fly without doing the quest, temporary or not.</p><p>That qualifies as selling power, it's an unfair advantage that we were promised would never happen on our servers. (that's why the vampire flying mount still requires a quest)</p>

[Kasar]

<p><cite>Kyrm wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Enjoy the flying mounts, they do look fun <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>You can buy a temporary one for nothing during this promotion. </p><p>It certainly changes the drudgery of the "kill 8 of these, return, then go kill 8 more" sorts of quests.</p>

[SmokeJumper]

<p><cite>NrthnStar5 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I love flying mounts, especially when leveling up a new toon. Makes it fresh and fun! I know it has been stated that flying mounts would remain a high level item, which is understandable.</p><p>How about putting in a flying mount rental service? There is a lot of options you could do with this. Perhaps rental vendors in each major city that give you a flying mount for a day, for a fee of course. Or flying mount rentals per zone, with flying mounts themed to each zone.</p><p>This would allow low level players the ability to use flying mounts from time to time if they have the coin, while still keeping permanant mounts a high level only feature. </p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p>We've got something cooler planned for ya. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Details in about...oh...probably a month from now should be about the right time to reveal.</p>

[Vellisse]

<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>NrthnStar5 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I love flying mounts, especially when leveling up a new toon. Makes it fresh and fun! I know it has been stated that flying mounts would remain a high level item, which is understandable.</p><p>How about putting in a flying mount rental service? There is a lot of options you could do with this. Perhaps rental vendors in each major city that give you a flying mount for a day, for a fee of course. Or flying mount rentals per zone, with flying mounts themed to each zone.</p><p>This would allow low level players the ability to use flying mounts from time to time if they have the coin, while still keeping permanant mounts a high level only feature. </p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p>We've got something cooler planned for ya. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> Details in about...oh...probably a month from now should be about the right time to reveal.</p></blockquote><p>Just promise it won't have anything to do with Station Cash Marketplace and it will be something we can do in game.</p>

[Eveningsong]

<p>BTW, Test server has lost its SC marketplace since the latest patch, and can't play with the free SC griffin mounts right now.  Any chance that could be fixed before the promotion is over? <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[x82nd77]

<p>I have been an outspoken person against station cash but I will admit that I would buy a flying mount in a heartbeat.  As someone with Altoholicm I am constantly running back through zones and having this bird has made questing more fun than I have had in years. I have logged on more in the last few days than in the last few weeks. </p><p>Thanks to whoever had this idea!!!</p><p>p.s.  My wife says thanks and would buy one on her account as well.</p>

[MurFalad]

<p><cite>x82nd77 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have been an outspoken person against station cash but I will admit that I would buy a flying mount in a heartbeat.  As someone with Altoholicm I am constantly running back through zones and having this bird has made questing more fun than I have had in years. I have logged on more in the last few days than in the last few weeks. </p><p>Thanks to whoever had this idea!!!</p><p>p.s.  My wife says thanks and would buy one on her account as well.</p></blockquote><p>As long as its not power being sold then I'm happy.</p><p>But if there are in the future any SC items added then I would really like to see a non-SC path added to quest our way to a similar reward (which is no-trade).  Even if it requires us to jump through multiple hoops and travel to the ends of the earth I think its a great system, and in practice then it'll also mean that people will be likely to just purchase things they want for their alts after achieving the big quest on their mains.</p><p>So far they did do that for me with ZUA, the mount in there is hard to get, but it is there, and its up to us to get the free one, that's perfect to me, I loved how some people were seriously motivated from the start to go for it.</p><p>But on this change Smokejumper is leaving us guessing as usual, but I have a feeling its not marketplace related, we'll see I guess <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Vellisse]

<p>If they do sell the mounts on SC, the player will have to be 86+ otherwise your going to have to put in a new flying mount quest for the lower levels. (1). If you don't, your just essentially power selling simply because those at the lower levels with mounts are losing so much time for questing etc etc, and to just see someone who tossed $25 on one fly by finishing quests at twice the persons speed without one would be absolutely cheap.</p><p>Sorry If the wording is weird in that, didn't make sense to me either.</p><p>[Player One] - Pays Subscription - Quests at 1x Normal Rate</p><p>[Player Two] - Pays Subscription - Throws out another $25 for Mount - Quests at 2x Normal Rate</p><p>Money shouldn't be the basis of how quickly you can progress in the game.</p><p>Make it a quest, or don't do it at all.</p>

[NrthnStar5]

<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>NrthnStar5 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I love flying mounts, especially when leveling up a new toon. Makes it fresh and fun! I know it has been stated that flying mounts would remain a high level item, which is understandable.</p><p>How about putting in a flying mount rental service? There is a lot of options you could do with this. Perhaps rental vendors in each major city that give you a flying mount for a day, for a fee of course. Or flying mount rentals per zone, with flying mounts themed to each zone.</p><p>This would allow low level players the ability to use flying mounts from time to time if they have the coin, while still keeping permanant mounts a high level only feature. </p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p>We've got something cooler planned for ya. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> Details in about...oh...probably a month from now should be about the right time to reveal.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the info! Looking forward to hearing more about it!</p>

[Kasar]

<p><cite>Velo@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>[Player One] - Pays Subscription - Quests at 1x Normal Rate<p>[Player Two] - Pays Subscription - Throws out another $25 for Mount - Quests at 2x Normal Rate</p><p>Money shouldn't be the basis of how quickly you can progress in the game.</p></blockquote><p>That's still very possible with methods other than a mount using all of the advancement potions from doing nothing but being subscribed for years or playing that facebook game. </p><p>At this point, people can hit max level pretty quickly without spending a lot of time running old quests or even looking at old content.  Unless they decide to run Sword of Destiny or something just because, they could completely skip a huge number of zones without any penalty.</p><p>I think that's what made me consider this argument pointless anymore.  You spend weeks getting the best of what T8 gear exists, and it's trash when T9 launches, then that new gear is again when the next expansion is released, so all that time chasing gear or spells, can be bypassed by a new player because it's useless at end game.  The mythical weapon buff and mastery strikes are the only things that stay with you as anything more than potential house items or skill list filler.</p>

[MurFalad]

<p><cite>Velo@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If they do sell the mounts on SC, the player will have to be 86+ otherwise your going to have to put in a new flying mount quest for the lower levels. (1). If you don't, your just essentially power selling simply because those at the lower levels with mounts are losing so much time for questing etc etc, and to just see someone who tossed $25 on one fly by finishing quests at twice the persons speed without one would be absolutely cheap.</p><p>Sorry If the wording is weird in that, didn't make sense to me either.</p><p>[Player One] - Pays Subscription - Quests at 1x Normal Rate</p><p>[Player Two] - Pays Subscription - Throws out another $25 for Mount - Quests at 2x Normal Rate</p><p>Money shouldn't be the basis of how quickly you can progress in the game.</p><p>Make it a quest, or don't do it at all.</p></blockquote><p>People can already spend money to buy XP potions to speed up their levelling rate, they can also go ahead and pay for a second account to get the RAF bonus to speed things up even more (double the cost).</p><p>I'm sure too that if they were that motivated (desperate?) they could hand out cash to people to form paid groups to port around and clear content faster or other things way out of SOE's control (I know for a raiding guild some friends did offer to do this for a new character to fill a needed slot, which would be fun to try somepoint since its making a game out of powerlevelling).</p><p>So I'm really not bothered about the speed other people can level, it really does not effect my game much if at all.  But when "sword of much sharpness" appears on the marketplace for $5 I am, its easy to see such items become mandatory for players by altering the game design to stimulate item sales, thus corrupting the game I enjoy.</p><p>Right now the balance of cosmetic items is good, although imo it would be perfect if they all had an ingame route.</p>

[Vellisse]

<p>The potions are in no way cost-effective because they are temporary.</p><p>It'd cost a player figure $200+ to get a character from 0-90 0-300 using the potions which is why nobody buys them outside of double EXP weekends.</p>

[Nahlis]

<p>Personally I'd like to see a free 'claim' mount available to alts after at least one toon has completed the high level quest.  Not only is it highly conveniant for alts after you've put in the time once, but this week has been sooo much fun for my kids and their low level characters.  lol  My 5 yo son flew around swooping and nosediving to his hearts content and my 9 yo daghter must have "bought" a hundred of the things trying to match the color to her Fae's various outfits. heh</p>

[Tallithia]

<p><cite>Velo@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The potions are in no way cost-effective because they are temporary.</p><p>It'd cost a player figure $200+ to get a character from 0-90 0-300 using the potions which is why nobody buys them outside of double EXP weekends.</p></blockquote><p>I use potions and haven't paid for any.  *shrug*</p>