Post by bdew on Apr 27, 2017 10:39:16 GMT
There have been a few players complaining about / asking for changes to Hell Horses and Unicorns recently.
A few of the suggestions people had is make unicorns behave like horses (can be lead without taming), or make HHs passive towards darklighters.
I personally think the current system is almost good in terms of balance, but not quite 100%.
Horses
Accessible to everybody
Require nothing special
Unicorns
Faster than horses
Can take a passenger
Require taming or charming
Can be champions (i'm not sure how valuable is that, but at the very least it's cool)
Will become rainbow unicorns soon(tm)
Hell Horses
Even faster than both unicorns and horses
Require either following FO, taming or charming
Look bad ass.
IMO each of them has their strengths and uses, horses are accessible, HHs are fast, unicorns take passengers - and it's something that i'd like to preserve.
What i think is bad in the existing system:
My proposed solution - let HHs and Unis be leadable, rideable and passive without actually taming them for characters with >50 skill in both Animal Husbandry and Taming.
I think this is a good solution because it gives another path to use them in a way that's unrelated to faith to those that want to invest the time, yet leaves horses useful for those that don't want to bother.
Also since you won't actually have to have the animal tamed - they won't be attacked when traveling (at least as often).
Looking for what other players think about this proposal before i implement it, so if you have any opinion - please chime in!
A few of the suggestions people had is make unicorns behave like horses (can be lead without taming), or make HHs passive towards darklighters.
I personally think the current system is almost good in terms of balance, but not quite 100%.
Horses
Accessible to everybody
Require nothing special
Unicorns
Faster than horses
Can take a passenger
Require taming or charming
Can be champions (i'm not sure how valuable is that, but at the very least it's cool)
Will become rainbow unicorns soon(tm)
Hell Horses
Even faster than both unicorns and horses
Require either following FO, taming or charming
Look bad ass.
IMO each of them has their strengths and uses, horses are accessible, HHs are fast, unicorns take passengers - and it's something that i'd like to preserve.
What i think is bad in the existing system:
- Tamed/Charmed unicorns and hell horses used as mounts tend to aggro other critters and get killed when travelling.
- Lib followers on Walden can't really use HHs or Unis because they have no charm, and can't tame without corrupting. Corrupting animals on Walden is stupid because then they can't graze.
My proposed solution - let HHs and Unis be leadable, rideable and passive without actually taming them for characters with >50 skill in both Animal Husbandry and Taming.
I think this is a good solution because it gives another path to use them in a way that's unrelated to faith to those that want to invest the time, yet leaves horses useful for those that don't want to bother.
Looking for what other players think about this proposal before i implement it, so if you have any opinion - please chime in!
