Mounts will go on without you if you fall off

[Pheonix]

Doesn't seem realistic that your character is still standing after falling...

[spawnloser]

Tuck and roll?

[brytta.leofa]

Related mounty weirdness: thrown weapons can "knock you down" without knocking you off your mount.

A spear flies in from the north and strikes your hand, knocking you to the ground kind of thing.
> mount kank
You're already riding a saffron kank.
> south
Shouldn't you stand up first?
> stand
You stand up.
> south

[Morgenes]

Doesn't seem realistic that your character is still standing after falling...

Related mounty weirdness: thrown weapons can "knock you down" without knocking you off your mount.

A spear flies in from the north and strikes your hand, knocking you to the ground kind of thing.
> mount kank
You're already riding a saffron kank.
> south
Shouldn't you stand up first?
> stand
You stand up.
> south

Next reboot, both of these will be fixed.  You may not like the results of this.

[LauraMars]

Gosh darn you people.

[spawnloser]

LOL, if I this means what I think it means, getting a knockdown from mountback is going to especially suck.

[brytta.leofa]

If you get knocked off your mount, not only should you be lying down and lose HP for the fall, but your mount should get scared and run out of the "room."

[Kankfly]

If you get knocked off your mount, not only should you be lying down and lose HP for the fall, but your mount should get scared and run out of the "room."

Or if your mount is evil, be all *snickersnicker* you fell, you sucka! Wtf.

On a more serious note, I like this change. It made my RP funny. Thanks guyz.

[jmordetsky]

Next reboot, both of these will be fixed.  You may not like the results of this.

Ruh oh.

[Synthesis]

If you get knocked off your mount, not only should you be lying down and lose HP for the fall, but your mount should get scared and run out of the "room."

Uh, no.

[jmordetsky]

If you get knocked off your mount, not only should you be lying down and lose HP for the fall, but your mount should get scared and run out of the "room."

Uh, no.

Why not? If it was dependent on:

1) The type of mount
2) How much combat the mount itself has seen? (do mounts have skills that could be saved and increase over time?)
3) How jarring the blow was?

BOOM AWESOME!

There should have some option for dismounting mounted fighters, which was ++ by long spears or polearms as well. Possibly a skills like "unhorse" or something.

[brytta.leofa]

2) How much combat the mount itself has seen? (do mounts have skills that could be saved and increase over time?)

Mount skills would be tremendous (though they'd probably totally muck up the stabling code).  One skill for every corresponding riding ability: mount (taming), ride, charge, trample.  Store-bought mounts should have good mount and ride skills, while fresh-caught wild critters would be unreliable until properly broken.

[jmordetsky]

2) How much combat the mount itself has seen? (do mounts have skills that could be saved and increase over time?)

Mount skills would be tremendous (though they'd probably totally muck up the stabling code).  One skill for every corresponding riding ability: mount (taming), ride, charge, trample.  Store-bought mounts should have good mount and ride skills, while fresh-caught wild critters would be unreliable until properly broken.

Yar. All cool. I don't know if the stable save "your mount" or saves "a mount". If you ranger quit with a tired beetle, is he tired when you come back in? That would indicate that it saves "your mount". But I think stables refresh the mount completely "a mount".

[5 day lifespan]

In five pages, I haven't seen a single person mention this, but...

We have gone through phases of mount failure that included:
-Mount not moving and everyone else moving on without you
-Mount throwing you off and staying in the same room
-Mount throwing you off and leaving without you

Now, as much as I DESPISE being thrown off (and how more often it seems to happen than any of the other penalties I've suffered while learning ride) aren't all three somewhat realistic results of failure?  Why aren't we still seeing mount stalls and the mount throwing you off but not leaving?  Wouldn't it make for a more realistic system to have all three either randomized or an indication of degree of failure?  IE when I sucked, my mount would throw me and run off, throw me and stay close by, or just refuse to move all together.  Now that I'm better, he only throws me off occasionally or stops moving.  Once I was better than that, I would just get occasional stalls.

[hyzhenhok]

In five pages, I haven't seen a single person mention this, but...

We have gone through phases of mount failure that included:
-Mount not moving and everyone else moving on without you
-Mount throwing you off and staying in the same room
-Mount throwing you off and leaving without you

Now, as much as I DESPISE being thrown off (and how more often it seems to happen than any of the other penalties I've suffered while learning ride) aren't all three somewhat realistic results of failure?  Why aren't we still seeing mount stalls and the mount throwing you off but not leaving?  Wouldn't it make for a more realistic system to have all three either randomized or an indication of degree of failure?  IE when I sucked, my mount would throw me and run off, throw me and stay close by, or just refuse to move all together.  Now that I'm better, he only throws me off occasionally or stops moving.  Once I was better than that, I would just get occasional stalls.

You failed your ride check. Your mount is now 10 miles ahead of you, because you are in big outdoor rooms.

This is just a point of amusement for me; I do like the way mounts work now. And I find when I do fall off, it's almost always because I forgot to sheathe a weapon or something.

[Xeran Van Houten]

They still refuse to move sometimes.

[Semper]

Not to add more to hate about the code but...getting a penalty to riding when you're really tired would be another added realism thing.

I'm having no problem with the code currently IG. It's a hassle for the newer riders, but it makes sense that you require some kind of training and risk when trying to ride massive beetles and lizards...

[Marc]

You failed your ride check. Your mount is now 10 miles ahead of you, because you are in big outdoor rooms.

It's not 10 miles ahead of you, you just have to chase it for 10 miles to regain control!

The grizzled, grizzly gorilla shouts in sirihish:
    "Stop!  Stop!  Stop that beetle!"

The grizzled grizzly gorilla clamors over scrub and runs around boulders in his chase for ~beetle who seems to keep just out of his lengthy reach.

[janeshephard]

Not to add more to hate about the code but...getting a penalty to riding when you're really tired would be another added realism thing.

I'm having no problem with the code currently IG. It's a hassle for the newer riders, but it makes sense that you require some kind of training and risk when trying to ride massive beetles and lizards...

I think everything possible has been done to make riding hazardous. You don't really need to add anymore.

[5 day lifespan]

Not to add more to hate about the code but...getting a penalty to riding when you're really tired would be another added realism thing.

I'm having no problem with the code currently IG. It's a hassle for the newer riders, but it makes sense that you require some kind of training and risk when trying to ride massive beetles and lizards...

I think everything possible has been done to make riding hazardous. You don't really need to add anymore.

Except inadvertantly summoning demons...

[hyzhenhok]

Not to add more to hate about the code but...getting a penalty to riding when you're really tired would be another added realism thing.

I'm having no problem with the code currently IG. It's a hassle for the newer riders, but it makes sense that you require some kind of training and risk when trying to ride massive beetles and lizards...

I think everything possible has been done to make riding hazardous. You don't really need to add anymore.

Except inadvertantly summoning demons...

You haven't had that one happen to you yet?