Flying Carpet for Wizards or just Humans

bellaberri
bellaberri Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2009 in Suggestion Box
I do not understand why Wizards ride on swords...I mean Wizards = Swords? No. Since the 3D shape of the sword is really a plane with mapping of a sword with particles around it...why not draw new texture map that looks like a carpet with particles around it and attach it to the same setting/animation as the sword's...

Or even more simpler, just take away the sword texture and keep the particles...this way it will look as if the player is flying around on a storm/thunder/ion/smoke cloud instead...

As you can probably guessed, I really do not care for the flying sword.
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  • Wiku - Sanctuary
    Wiku - Sanctuary Posts: 91 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    um... i dun think anyone would want to fly around on a carpet, this game is not based off aladen o.o
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  • bellaberri
    bellaberri Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    I don't see why not... this is what I got from wikipedia concerning Aladdin...

    "The original story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It concerns an impoverished young ne'er-do-well named Aladdin, in a Chinese city, who is recruited by a sorcerer to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave..."

    The geographic areas started in China...

    Also, I would like to note that most of the oriental rugs are made in the East, some in the Middle East, and Turkey. Seems appropriate.
  • Maddieson - Sanctuary
    Maddieson - Sanctuary Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Not that I play humans at all I do agree wizard on a sword just doesn't look right plus the wizard is slow and if he or she doesn't nesscaricly like flying on a sword it may take them awhile to get from on place to another.

    As so I have no idea if wizards have some teleportaion spell or something but still wizard+no flying abilty=SLOW
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  • Sylvini - Heavens Tear
    Sylvini - Heavens Tear Posts: 259 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    I agree that the wizard flying on a sword is pretty stupid, and a field of magic particles would work much better. Better yet, some kind of cloud around them, so it looks more original. Maybe as they travel, it leaves a kind of trail so it looks kinda like a comet. I'm not sure if BMs would like this, or if it'd work for them, but that would work better for them than a sword would for mages. As for the equipment slot, you can make it some kind of random magic widget.

    I'm not sure I like the Untamed aerobeasts, either. I'd much rather have them straddle something (like riding on the ground) that should actually fly (as opposed to mantas, the birds are ok). Wyverns, dragons, birds, maybe a bat or two would all be cool.
  • Murugan - Lost City
    Murugan - Lost City Posts: 138 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    *sigh*

    Wait for the new air mounts to come out before you start complaining about them. There actually ARE dragon mounts coming out for the untamed, and there are three mounts for humans that aren't exactly swords, but still pretty cool.

    /*sigh*
  • AndromedaB - Sanctuary
    AndromedaB - Sanctuary Posts: 1,376 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Murugan - Lost City wrote: »
    *sigh*

    Wait for the new air mounts to come out before you start complaining about them. There actually ARE dragon mounts coming out for the untamed, and there are three mounts for humans that aren't exactly swords, but still pretty cool.

    /*sigh*

    yeah according to ectacomb or whatever its called theres a mount for humans thats like two wheels and nothing else
  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Humans do have the worst selection of Aero...

    I wish that humans would be allowed a winged beast... or a dragonrider class.
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  • Sylvini - Heavens Tear
    Sylvini - Heavens Tear Posts: 259 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Murugan - Lost City wrote: »
    *sigh*

    Wait for the new air mounts to come out before you start complaining about them. There actually ARE dragon mounts coming out for the untamed, and there are three mounts for humans that aren't exactly swords, but still pretty cool.

    /*sigh*

    Ah, but can we really ride them or are we standing on their backs again? That's what I was really complaining about.
  • Murugan - Lost City
    Murugan - Lost City Posts: 138 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Sylvini - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Ah, but can we really ride them or are we standing on their backs again? That's what I was really complaining about.

    Humans "surf" on all of their flying mounts, including the ones that have yet to come out. The mounts just look different.

    Elves are self-explanatory, wings are never gonna change.

    Untamed also stand an all of their flying mounts.


    Of course, doing this would prevent all this confusion :P
  • Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear
    Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,175 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    They could give elves prepella hat
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  • Sylvini - Heavens Tear
    Sylvini - Heavens Tear Posts: 259 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Murugan - Lost City wrote: »
    Humans "surf" on all of their flying mounts, including the ones that have yet to come out. The mounts just look different.

    Elves are self-explanatory, wings are never gonna change.

    Untamed also stand an all of their flying mounts.


    Of course, doing this would prevent all this confusion :P

    :sigh: My point was to point out to you that a substantial part of my original suggestion was to change the 'ride' animation for Venos from surfing (which, imo, just looks stupid) to actually riding. Of course I know that they aren't going to completely change the entire ride animation just for one or two new mounts. Sadly, tone is very hard to read online, so I guess I should have avoided a tone-dependant method of communication.

    My point is, as I said, it looks kinda stupid for the Untamed to 'surf' through the air on a manta-ray, and even worse to do it on a giant swan. I'd much rather be able to actually ride (i.e. straddle somewhere around the neck/shoulders) an actually flying creature (birds, bats, flying reptiles like wyverns and dragons, etc.). I also, personally, think the humans look kinda dumb 'surfing' on swords, too, thus my suggestion to do a magic bubble/comet thing. It'd look cooler, seems to work better with the game lore, and be more unique, instead of having two races with the same animation and just different mounts, while the third gets something completely unique.

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