Controversial, I know but many players have used their mounts to disrupt other players from gaining access to NPC‘s quest items or other game elements. Blizzard has even had to go so far as creating either collision boxes around NPC‘s or small zones of dismounting.
To alleviate the need to create these small restrictions and to prevent other abusive like situations, making cities and towns where you cannot use, your mount is the best option.
This would allow for more role-playing options for fast travel around cities. For example;
Stormwind can have small portal platforms to teleport you to other locations around the city.
Orgrimmar can have goblin made pneumatic tubes, mostly running underground to transport people around the city.
There are many other ways to provide faster, travel throughout a city or town without the need of mounts getting in other players way.
Tossing the baby out with the bathwater does neither any good.
Here’s what we’ve learned about bad behavior. People always have the capability of bad behavior. It’s a constant.
However, 99.9999% of the time, they don’t.
Designing systems around the .00001% is a silly thing.
They already have mount exclusion zones around things they deem “exclusive”, and, you know what? They’re more annoying than useful too. Their impact outweigh their overall good.
Walking across Dornogal is a silly idea. Walking across SW is a silly idea.
I would like the $90 brontosaur to reduce in size by 50 percent when at a crafting table. I feel like saying move yer fat butt every time someone parks in front of one and I open their AH by mistake.
I told you all it was controversial. But I suppose Pandora’s box has already been open. It’s better to click through bad behavior than to eliminate it.
All that needs to happen is, NPC’s have a radius with a circle at their feet (like the NPC’s who can see you if you get into their circle if you are cloaked).
Mounts outside that circle say mounted and can still click/talk/interact w/NPC. Mounts inside the circle are auto dismounted. Just a thought that would resolve both sides of this story.
I stopped interacting with vending mounts in DF because every time I did some jerkface would move it forward a few steps. so i guess I’m conditioned now not to interact with them.
I bought my own mammoth vending mount this weekend in Dal so now offically on the (low end) of the vending mount scoreboard.
Eta regarding the baby spice on big butt brontos I will try it. Guerrilla warfare!
so i guess I’m conditioned now not to interact with them.