Poster: Cunaxa at 2/9/2006 4:47:51 PM PST
Subject: Why's getting a cross-faction mount so hard? |
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*Cliffnotes at bottom for the lazy*
Hopefully a blue will give me a solid answer on this because I'm not really looking for guesses or speculation, but why do you have to work and grind and slave away through thousands of hard-to-obtain reputation points to get a mount from another faction?
If the different mounts had any effect on a character other than visual appearance I would understand why you would require time and effort to obtain it-- it would be like receiving a weapon, armor, trinket, or any other item that changed your gameplay. Each faction's mounts, however, are all the same, varying only in looks. What would be the purpose in making it so difficult to get something that effects only how your character looks? Why not make it easier, if only to create a little more variance in the world.
It's not the actual reputation gaining that bothers me, that is a perfectly fine method of deciding when you may purchase another faction's mount-- but if this is going to be the method, it needs to be easier and faster. More quests for reputation, or at least mobs for each faction that give reputation that we can grind on. The elders were fantastic, just what I was looking for, but still, after completeling most if not all quests for SW, and doing the elders, I'm still quite a ways away from exalted. Yes, I've been doing the war effort and turning in cloth, but that takes time and money that I don't have.
If changing the reputation system is out of the question though, then maybe you could just make cross-faction mounts slightly (100g? 200g?) more expensive or add the ability to purchase them available as a reward from a series of hilarious and well-scripted quests bringing your character around the world and educating it on the cultural influences and history of that faction. Or something.
Oh, and while I'm at it, is there a reason that mount selection is so limited? The color choices are fairly weak... though I can usually find something I like, the fact that 2 of the 3 options for wolves being different shades of brown leaves me wondering why there's not a white, or light gray, or reddish... would it be too much trouble to make, say, 6? 8? 10? different skins for each mount. If there's a reason behind this, that's perfectly fine, I just think this would be a quick, easy way to add some visual variance to the world without doing anything to affect gameplay balance.
Cliffnotes: Getting rep is a long and tedious process for something that only changes your looks. Can this be changed?[ post edited by Cunaxa ]
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=7048072&p=#post7048072 | | | Poster: Drysc at 2/9/2006 5:24:14 PM PST
Subject: Re: Why's getting a cross-faction mount so ha |
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Why should it be made readily available? I agree it is little more than a visual difference technically; however, that visual difference is the key meaning to its existence. The ability for any player with nothing more than pure time and effort to obtain something that others cannot without the same amount of effort is a testament to their personal achievement. It's no different that any other visible element (weapons, armor, etc.) that distinguishes you from another based on your experiences and efforts. Taking that away would take away part of the game and part of a player's identity. Each race is given their own mount, and that mount works to help further distinguish each race. If you want to take that to the next level and increase that distinction, not distinction in race but distinction in status, then of course there is going to be some work required. The value of a cross-faction mount is its rarity, and that rarity is created by necessity of effort. Those willing to put forth the effort will be rewarded with something to visually represent it.
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