Your View: Horses In Their Current State

[Hillsand 54]

I think that you shouldent need player prmission to steal a horse but I think the player should have to be online and I think a gm should be watching

[oblivionsbane 714]

Scrap horses entirely sounds like a lovely idea.

I know you expected hate for saying that, but no that would suck.

[oblivionsbane 714]

     Unlimited protections because why not, it only gets in the way of people trying to hop on any horse and go, which would bypass any possible RP and really just be annoying and trolly. Horse protection is similar to LWC's in the way that unlocked horses will be stolen with little to no RP. Not just because they are easy to steal, but with regions how they are signs are unable to be placed down to show hints on what happened when they were stolen. Not to mention how could they if they speed off on a horse, or emote for that matter. That person who said "Well you can't speed off on a horse if you are running away from someone" why would you be MC running in the first place? So it is actually almost impossible to RP stealing a horse if there are no protections. Honestly I have stolen horses, and it takes about 5-10 minutes of you standing next to a horse for your modreq to go through so you can steal the horse. Then you have to go through the process of the modreq which makes it really obvious that someone is stealing the horse. I believe there needs to a way that you know your horse was stolen as well. The only way I found out mine just wandered off and I couldn't find it today was TP'ing it to me which I don't like in general because it is just silly, this isn't The Legend of Zelda. This further backs up my argument for more protections because protections at least give you some idea if your horse was even stolen. The point is there needs to be more plugin built into this, it is the only way horses will ever be what they are supposed to be. 

 

     Horses disappearing when you log off? Most ridiculous thing ever, I am thankful the staff has been lenient on me when it comes to this and refunded me. I don't know what does it, I just want it fixed like every other person that owns a horse. How many horses do you actually see being riden in a day? I may have seen two today, and I was on almost all day. You know what else happened today? I crashed on my horse and the staff gave me another because they are awesome. This has to be fixed for horses to even be plausible.This either has to stop, or there has to be a sort of recall so that you can summon a horse with the same values back to you in case you lose yours. (Because you know there has to be values for the exact horses stats and color in the programming.) Mobs to my knowledge cannot damage horses, so only players could kill another persons horse, which could be programmed along with it. Of course that is only if you can't fix the problem in and of itself.

 

     Let's compare horses to cars. How many people do you see without a car these days? That is because there is a price range for everyone. So in medieval times, horses, donkeys, mules, oxen, and other work animals were not rare or just for rich people. There was an animal for every price range, because there was a quality of every animal. Could a decent farmer buy a beautiful white stallion, probably not. Could he buy a donkey, most likely. This is where another point comes, instead of decreasing rates of animals, increase rates and make quality rarer. As it is you could add a plugin where animals eventually /die./ Which I am sure cures your biggest concern, them piling up. This would allow people who can't afford a brand new donkey to buy an older donkey to help them until they get enough money for a freshly bred one. This actually is going to switch back to my main point, adding more protections, because you know what an easy cure for this is? Add more protections so breeders can actually keep popping out animals. I mean the age idea is a good one, but if there aren't breeders to even produce a population, what is the point? 

 

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     So let's imagine this, you add an expected lifetime plugin. The breeders are less restricted in mating their animals to deal with the ever lessening population of animals. They lower prices for regular stuff and keep the high quality prize animals at high prices. They don't have to worry about people breaking in and stealing their horses possibly crippling the whole system because there are unlimited protections and a modreq would always be required to steal anyways. Also this would provide more RP for breeders because it would make a greater demand. If you couldn't afford a brand new donkey/horse you could buy a used one just like a used car until you can afford a new one. All of this doesn't matter though if there is still a general fear of losing your animals, so that has to be handled some way. This is my answer to the problems that I am aware of.

[Rhia 936]

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