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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2012, 12:12:02 am »

I would like to see giant ravens work as taxis within a dwarven fortress which is basically a huge carved out room, with platforms for the ravens to land on. I would love to see something like that in the game.
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2012, 12:40:23 am »

I dunno, I can't see dwarves riding stuff around. Sure it's awesome on every level, but let the humans and goblins have some stuff to themselves. They should have a restricting set of cultural practices. Minecarts are their beasts of burden.
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2012, 12:25:55 pm »

mounts are cool because it gives animals more purpose than being skill level ups or bags of meat
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2012, 03:22:42 pm »

I still would love to see those taxigiant sparrows. This would give purpose to multitile rooms too.
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2012, 07:27:35 pm »

I have a potential solution to the 'dwarves shouldn't be riding certain animals' issue. Simply restrict by civilization what animals can be trained as riding beasts, and what can't. Personally, i could never see a dwarf flying, BUT, maybe have stuff like riding giant moles as tunnelers. Also maybe have a way to change it eventually, but it would take a lot of time and effort.
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2012, 07:30:45 pm »

I would like to see giant ravens work as taxis within a dwarven fortress which is basically a huge carved out room, with platforms for the ravens to land on. I would love to see something like that in the game.

Gonna exhume my suggestion of traders who come on flying mounts that require a special high-value, high-elevation depot and who bring high-quality exotic goods from remote civs beyond your three trading partners.
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2012, 08:07:49 pm »

Flying carpet traders!

"Hi, I'm Elf Aladdin. I hope you haven't been cutting down a lot of Palm Trees. If you want to trade, I have this magic lamp you can get off me.. Rub it and something magical will happen. I'll also be taking that caged silverback gibbon, been looking for a type of monkey that doesnt get a negative thought from not having ¤tiger fur fez hat¤."
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Re: Vote for Mounts!
« Reply #37 on: April 27, 2012, 06:00:50 pm »

Flying carpet traders!

"Hi, I'm Elf Aladdin. I hope you haven't been cutting down a lot of Palm Trees. If you want to trade, I have this magic lamp you can get off me.. Rub it and something magical will happen. I'll also be taking that caged silverback gibbon, been looking for a type of monkey that doesnt get a negative thought from not having ¤tiger fur fez hat¤."

Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the undead camel skins roam
Where they bite off your ear
And the rest of your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home!

When goblins come from the east
And giant bats from the well
And the fires in the stockpiles are bright
Come on down
Stop on by
Hop a thrips man and fly
To another Uristian night!

Uristian nights
Like Uristian days
Nasty, of course
Also brutal and short
In more than one way!

Uristian nights
'Neath Uristian moons
A dwarf who isn't drunk
Could get bit by a werechipmunk
Or put in a danger room!
« Last Edit: April 27, 2012, 06:03:25 pm by Niyazov »
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