Your View: Horses In Their Current State

[Ever 2648]

Horses have been available for awhile now and we're looking for feedback to make the system better. 

 

How horses currently work:

 

• Two horses to breed, as well as golden carrots/apples
• After breeding, you cannot breed those horses again for another two weeks. 
• Horses cannot be stolen without player permission
• MyHorse plugin protects horses from fall/mob damamge (I believe), also allows you to teleport them to you if they get lost while you're offline. 

 

How can we make this system better? Should it be scrapped? Or perhaps it just needs some minor tweaks? We have a few ideas in mind, we'd just like your feedback before doing anything, so give us your feedback below!

 

Ever Global Moderator's Comment

Would like more feedback in regards to breeding/breeding time.

[Booklight12 481]

Now looking it over. I'm towards getting rid of OOC permissions. But I feel the player who owns the horse should be online when the horse is stolen. But then think of it rply, if the horse is mounted by a random person that comes across them and it isn't their master who they may have grew a strong bond with. I doubt the horse would let them go on them as it isn't their owner. So with this. I think if a horse is to be stolen a GM should be present when the act is done. Rather than simply walking up to a random horse and stealing it without any rp.

[mmat 7460]

I'd suggest removing the OOC permission aspect of horse theft and replacing it with an OOC notification, meaning that horses cannot be stolen unless the owner has a fair chance of stopping the theft, but not allowing the owner to decide whether or not their horse is actually stolen.

[Aelu / Rel (Combustionary) 1540]

Keep them as is, OOC consent requirements and everything.

[DecoLamb 959]

I'd change the thing with owner permission for theft. Why? Because it makes it pretty much impossible to steal a horse, and people will not bother to take care of horses since they cannot be stolen.

 

I have seen several horses just left to wander anthos because they can be teleported away and cant be taken by other people. People pay so much money for an expensive animal, yet they let it wander around aimlessly in the middle of a major city unattended?

 

Its not something that should be tolerated. You do not let a horse walk around by itself for days on end with tack still on. Let alone leave it in a major city either completely free roaming or just boxed up in a tiny fence box.

 

And not very many people will even agree to horse theft, that is, if they are even online to disagree to it.

 

EDIT: I agree with giving the owner some sort of notification however, especially if you are stealing from a stable. But if you leave your horse to wander with its tack still on, I'm going to walk up, grab his bridle, and walk off with him. Its your own fault for not taking care of him.

 

EDIT 2: Also, I'm -okay- with two weeks between breedings. But I think it would be a bit more friendly and less time consuming to shorten a breeding season by a week. I was told that its supposed to reflect the once a year cycle, however I'm also told that a real life week isa year, meaning we're waiting two years between each breeding, when a mare is capable of dropping far more within that time period.

[Stag 3230]

I like the idea of inflating the population of horses on LOTC. Does having more horses detract from RP? No, not really. It just means you are more likely to see horse RP. Along with that players might feel more inclined to allow their horse to be stolen if they know they can get another without selling their soul away. Horses die easily and should be easily replaced.

[Quavinir_Twiceborn 1050]

Personally, I think it would be nice if donkeys had a faster breeding rate, perhaps breed once a week? instead of two?

[ski_king3 0]

I like the idea of inflating the population of horses on LOTC. Does having more horses detract from RP? No, not really. It just means you are more likely to see horse RP. Along with that players might feel more inclined to allow their horse to be stolen if they know they can get another without selling their soul away. Horses die easily and should be easily replaced.

 

 

I'd suggest removing the OOC permission aspect of horse theft and replacing it with an OOC notification, meaning that horses cannot be stolen unless the owner has a fair chance of stopping the theft, but not allowing the owner to decide whether or not their horse is actually stolen.

 

Pretty much what these guys said. Make it so the owner needs to be online and able to be notified about horse theft, such that he is capable of responding if he is aware IC. Likewise, if we have more horses, it won't be as big of a deal, and the owner would be less prone to metagaming the fact that their horse is being stolen. Likewise, it could lead to fun RP, like elaborate distractions in order to lure away an owner of a horse in order to steal it, and not be blocked by OOC barriers.

[The Cleaning Crew 571]

I like almost everything about it, now. The only thing I'd really like to see changed is the breeding rate. Reduce it by at least a week and I'd be happy.

 

Also, now that we have the horse owner plugin, the OOC notification idea isn't a bad one either. You can just throw a saddle on your horse if you don't want someone to steal it. 

[MamaBearJade 2090]

i would like to see players being able to breed not getting a GM.

[Lord of the Nublets 92]

i would like to see players being able to breed not getting a GM.

 

 

yush

[MamaBearJade 2090]

Honestly.

Why should we be bothering the GMs for breeding when there can be a quick plugin made for the horses? It can be easily set up so horses can only breed once every 2 weeks, and then you only need minimal GM handling, if any.

That and I would like something done about the lag when Riding a horse....

[Nefarious Aus Shitpost 891]

Honestly, the horse locking thing making it unable to hurt horses is dumb.

[Minea 124]

I dont think rising the horse population is the greatest idea, give it enough time and there will be too many horses, already we as a guild have quadrupled our horse numbers just in the last month, if everyone bred when required the horse pop would sky rocket anyway.

 

And I like the TP aspect of the plug in, but I do agree that it doesn't make any RP sense.

[Sky 0]

Even though I can see my horsie being stolen, I would like less OOC interference when it comes to horsies.

 

Perhaps to add more RP, we could be able to breed say once a fortnight IRL and then people can become....

 

BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDERS~!!!