Mount Enhancements

Now from the start, I do NOT wish to see all mounts act like this. But all mounts should have at least some enhancement. This both to make them more wanted as more usefull.

1. Mounts should extend the player in fights.
This is not for all mounts, but for a selected few this would be great. Most land based mounts should be capable of this. Now how do I see this? Not all mounts should be able to go in 'Attack mode', meaning not all should have skills to pounce your oponent for example. Sitting on a mount using specific attacks that the player itself casts (character skills) or using character weapons. This could be ranged and melee weapons. For example:

- Blazing Tempest => able to pounce and character ranged attack
- Horses (any except unicorn types) => character melee + ranged attack, will kick and trample when enemy is to close.
- Polaris Snow Cub => maul's enemy and has ice/snow ranged skills
- Ancient Boa => uses fang's to deploy venom + ranged character skills
- Mammoth => tramples and uses tusks + ranged character attacks
- Neinbeast => uses some skills of the Neinbeast (in lesser form)
- Kirin types => uses ranged attacks (like fire, ice, wood, etc)

Mounts should still not be allowed inside FBs, BHs, TTs, etc. else you simply take the team play out of the game. But some slight improvements like these with not to much dmg you can already enhance the game.

2. Some mounts should be able to swim.
This goes for mostly fish and tiger mount types, they should be able to swim with the player on it's back. Of course no diving under the water, but so that the player is visible and in tiger mount case for example the head above water of the pet. Mounts that should be allowed to swim:

- Polaris Snow Cub
- Chieftain's Battlecat
- Grand Lobster
- Blazing Tempest
- Divine Tiger Sage
- Cursed Tiger Demon
- Bulbfish

Incase of suggestion 1, fighting mounts, it should disable mount attacks. However it should still allow character attacks in case of being attacked for example. Specially ranged attacks should work.


3. Armor for mounts
Since this serves multiple goals, such as show and actual armor protection, this should be for sale. This can just be within Archosaur for example with a new NPC shop. Armors should vary from arcane, light and heavy just as for characters. Only difference is that the player buys once and the armor adjusts to the player's level. Meaning low levels can NEVER have the best armors for mounts and visa versa. It basically acts like a reward for leveling.

4. Mount misc gear
Misc gear to enhance the look of your mount, in general the small details that make your mount 'unique' in a way. Things for example like:

- banners => on horses, elephants, dino's only. player should be able to show faction logo or custom logo (when approved of course). Country flags should be allowed by default including some default flags

- cloth covers => for some mounts it would be nice to have cloth's covering their backs. Again this is customizable by the player or using default pattern sets. This is for horses in the first place, but eleplants, elks, dog types, kirrins and dino's should be able to use it.

- Saddle => some mounts lack having a saddle, this needs to be fixed. But also get new saddles that look even better, or just are bigger.

5. Flying Mounts should be more realistic in movements.
For example the Israfel mount is a swan as many know, but it looks more like a static dead thing. only wings flap but no realism in the rest of the body. It seems to be 'dead' in a way. Making this a bit more looking 'alive' should enhance the mount. This same counts for several other flying mounts.

Tell me what you think about these things! GM's and MOD's, I ask you to join in as well! b:cute b:victory