Mounts!

[svs]

My idea is an idea about more convenient way of transport trough certain areas, much like boats take us across oceans while carpets take across the desert, are you starting to catch my drift, alright lets get to the point then.

 

You could very much say that this is just a more worked out addition to the already existing methods of travel as i already explained previously.

But that's not all, because of this new areas are opened up to players which adds big chuncks of new exciting content!

Some areas will have stands with imported or local animals which you can rent with restrictions.

To be able to rent certain mounts you will need certain skill levels, each mount can only be rented for a certain amount of time which could under certain conditions be increased.

Any rented mount has a limited area it can travel in.

 

Mounts cannot be owned, you can never have one placed in your inventory with that said you can't take them out of their respective areas.

When dismounting a rented mount it will stay by your side much like a normal/summoning pet. (client side)

You can not mount a beast while in a building unless noted that you can, but you can have a mount by your side while inside buildings. (client side)

When trying to enter a building while mounted you simply won't be able to, invisible walls then surround all buildings untill you dismount.

In some cases your mount might follow you down a dungeon, for example take the shark that you can rent, if you go down the ladder to enter the cat island dungeon your shark will follow you and appear in the closest open water spot.

When 5 minutes are left you'll get a warning then another for every minute, the mini-icon on your minimap drains over time much like the other icons already do but the drainrate is based upon the maximum time you've rented the mount for.

 

Along the mounts shops also sell food packs, these packs always hold 5 of a certain type of food, when feeding a mount it will automatically withdraw one food from the pack.

Food packs have a personal stock tagged with (#) which indicates the max amount.

Food packs don't stack.

Food from the packs cannot be used by the player for profit nor experience.

You may still bring you own food, however.

 

Some mounts have a favourite dish, if you feed them while mounted you'll unlock a secret ability unique to each mount.

Mounts can only eat a certain amount of food, their hunger increases by 10% per minute starting at 100% when you rent them (Yeah, the owners don't feed them).

 

A new icon on your minimap can now be accesed to check out your mount and whart you can do much like the summoning does.

Pets can still be used while renting a mount.

The interactions you get when you click the icon are: feed (when mounted), mount (when dismounted), dismount (when mounted), dismiss (when dismounted).

Clicking your mount also gives you certain options: left click = feed (when mounted), dismount (when mounted), mount (when dismounted), dismiss (when dismounted).

A non dismounted mount appears client side only to avoid latency and client side issues, much like Zanik does on the goblin series.

When mounting a cloud of dust appears (*poof* switches to server side) and you'll appear ontop on your mount.

A whistle is used to call your mount when it can't reach you or when the mount is lost.

 

Land mounts walk at the speed we walk, land mounts normally don't walk unless they can't run.

Land mounts run at the speed we run unless this is increased under certain conditions the only difference is otherwise that land mounts have "infinite" run energy.

 

Water mounts swim at the speed we walk and have anergy like we do to increase their speed at the same speed like we run.

Their energy also decreases over time and increases depending on what kind of water mount you have rented.

You may only dismount a water mount while near anything resembling a shore or docks.

As already noted all mounts have a limited travel area.

 

When you're out of rent time while on a water mount then you'll wash up on the shore close to where you bought the mount.

When on an island accessed with a water mount and you run out of time you can select the option to swim back to the shore when clicking the water where you docked or where you could dock, again you will wash up on the shore near where you rented the mount.

Some bigger areas accesed with water or land mounts may have an npc willing to teleport player back to safety.

 

Client side : Only the player can see it

Server side : Everyone can see it

(+x) : Ring of charos increaes the timer with x minutes

Dish : Mount favourite food type, percentage(%) decreases hunger.

Ability :Unlocked & used when feeding the mount (only when mounted)

 

 

[Khariadian Desert]

Land limited to area:

 

 

Water limited to area:

 

 

 

[Food packs]

Cactus pack - 10k (#10)

Spicy pack - 3k (#15)

Fish pack - 10k (#5)

 

[A]-[Land mounts]

The men who offer carpet services now also offer local desert type mounts.

 

Sandhopper

Created by crossing a grasshopper with a locust, these beasts are as tame as a dog and their hard shell offers excellent protection from the desert dangers.

Rather than running this beast jumps over 2 squares at the same speed as when you'd run past 2 squares.

No requirements

Charos ring increaes timer

5(+2) minutes - 2k

15(+3) minutes - 5k

Dish: None

Due to it jumping instead of walking you might be able to jump across water, just a thought.

 

Kalphite Worker

They ride better than they taste, the choice was easy.

20 slayer

Charos ring increaes timer

5(+2) minutes - 3k

10(+3) minutes - 5k

20(+3) minutes - 8k

Dish: potatoe cactus 50%

Ability: Teleports to kalphite lair

 

Camel

Our camels are quite tame, you don't need to be an expert to ride these pretties.

20 agility, 20 hunter

Charos/(a) ring increaes timer

10(+2/3) - 5k

20(+3/4) - 10k

30(+4/5) - 15k

Dish: spicy kebab 25%

Dish: spicy kebab

Ability: Runs at 200% speed for 6 seconds but then gets exhuasted and walks for another 3 seconds unless another kebab is given!

 

-[Water mounts]

Just south from the bank of Al Kharid there is a new seaport where you can rent imported exotic sharks to ride!

 

Shark

Don't worry these sharks are tamed and don't eat humans only fish.

78 hunter, 50 agility

15(+10) 8k

30(+10) 15k

45(+10) 20k

Dish: Shark 100%

Ability: Increases timer +10 minutes, a shark it's hunger won't increase.

 

[Morytania]

Limited to area:

 

 

 

Land mounts

Food packs

 

Ghast

 

 

It requires a touch of holy magic to ride one.

20 prayer, 40 magic

Ring of charos(a) increases timer.

10(+3) 3k

15(+4) 6k

30(+5) 10k

Dish: None

When riding a ghast no other ghasts will rotten your food.

 

 

 

[New accessable area(s)]

 

1. Cat Island (visible in the water mount area map of alkharid but i left it out of the land mount area map by accident)

Just east of tutorial island, requires 78 hunter to mount a shark to reach it from al kharid.

It holds a dungeon and a few rare trees.

Near the entrance stands an old man warning you that you should go back home, he offers a free home teleport for if you would get stuck on the island.

On each of the cats ears there's a magic tree, the three other trees are yew trees.

 

Working on the dungeon

This is what i got so far

 

 

 

The shark icons show where you will be able to dock with your shark, behind each docking spot is a diving spot.

The dungeon has 4 areas, each of the areas diving spots are linked to eachother.

Some diving spots will bring you to a set area while others bring you to random areas, any spot with water unless there are rocks in the way is a potential spot to appear but at some spots you won't be able to dock.

So for instance to get to the final mining place (the second and most difficult one to reach) you must first figure out the underwater maze a bit like the chaos tunnels work.

 

This is Joe Edward, he'll be the model i'll use for mounted images, he's doing 3 different emotes.

 

And this'll be his first mount.

 

here we go, first try on HD faking ever, i have quit editing pictures for over 4 years, i'm stil gud, guuuud, guuuuud!

 

More to come

New dungeons accesed with mounts

New dungeons inhabitants

new small islands in the sea one can acces that holds exotic/rare trees or rare veins or other things!

More mount(ed) images

Better layout.

Note: It depends though, i might change my mind :D

[Proc]

I like the idea, you really covered all aspects and got into detail lol. But I am pretty sure Jagex has stated that they will never introduce riding creatures to the game, as they say it will make the already-easy game even easier so =/ I guess we will just have to keep running out our characters tired feet :P

[Zaaps1]

Very nice idea. Not too disruptive and useful. I like it.

 

Btw, how did you manage to make those dungeon maps?

[svs]

Glad you both liked it.

 

I might work on something called mounted PvP, it will be similar to how old pvp worked in the wilderness, anyone on a mount will be able to attack anyone else that's mounted as long as it's within the level range.

Compared to old skool pvp there won't be many different factors, you can attack anyone you want/can and loot everything they dropped, and you don't have to be on a pvp world, if you don't wish to pvp you simply don't rent a mount.

Ofcourse melee will need weapons that can attack from a range, therefore melee will get acces to new weaponry such as pikes (1h) and new halberds (2h) and maces (1h/2h)

 

The updates i'll make to this thread really depend on the feedback i get, if it's even worth updating it or not.

 

 

Edit: Oh i just edited some maps i mapped long time ago then added my own touch to it, don't underestimate it, took me a lot of time to get what i have :P

[jamesrules90]

Cool idea and I like the benefits it gives you. The only problem is mounts of been suggested for years and I doubt Jagex would implement it.

[svs]

Well my goal is not for an idea to be implented but for a great idea to arise.

 

I think i have succeeded, but i need more feedback.

 

Maybe in the end Jagex might get some ideas from my idea, that would be more than i wanted.

[GuidesForScapers]

 

Just an idea :P

[svs]

Sweet man!

I can certainly work an idea around that image if you could manage the following:

 

It's a little bit big though so is there any chance you could make the bird a little bit smaller while not altering the size of our Joe.

 

I resized the ghast as well, that pretty much took most of the work but it was required for it to fit.

[x99xPyRo]

I love this idea, but this should actually be part of the Summoning skill.

 

I believe you should be able to "mount" your own summon. (Certain ones.)

 

Also, there should be no time limit and raise the price. Maybe 10k for unlimited time. If you can mount your summon, you also have the benefit of it's abilities.

[Owned_Nex]

Its too bad Jagex would never actually implement this

[tyluke]

I really think the idea is cool and I really like the picture, but I have to say NO because there are already transportation methods available.

Balloons, Carpets, Gliders, boats, magical teleports and even canoes. any concerning someone elses post I wouldn't support mounted familars either.

 

It's a cool idea :thumbsup: but it's not appropriate with the other means of transportation already in place.

[svs]

Mounts trough summoning.... nah :P

That would destroy too many aspects of my idea and otherwise i wouldn't even want it to happen.

 

And i'm also aware of the many other means of transportation that will drop you off at a set point.

Besides them canoes are as handy as them balloons and them balloons aren't very handy at all!

Should Jagex remove them? Certainly not they are not taking up much space and aren't annoying to look at , the only annoying part is the time it takes to use either one of the transports.

Should Jagex add more interesting ways of getting around? Yes sir!

Would things like canoes and balloons not be used anymore when Jagex implents my idea? I don't see why they should be used less or not at all.