Horse Problem

[Dielzen]

I logged in today, when I went to mount my horse it wouldn't let me until it was "in my stable"

I went to see if I could upgrade my Horse to a "fast" version of the horse....but the game says I don't own a horse to upgrade.

Is this a bug, a "feature", a nerf???

[OfElectricMen]

Apparently you have to upgrade it before you add it to your stable. So you may have to farm a new one, upgrade it and then add that one.

It's not very intuitive.

[CaseStringer]

I would say add only the upgraded fast mounts to your stable unless you want the slower versions in there too.

[Valerianus]

i'd say stop with introducing archaic game mechanics and turn all mounts into fast mounts. can't bring ddo out of the stone age if we are getting new things that are already old and surpassed.

[Dielzen]

I would say add only the upgraded fast mounts to your stable unless you want the slower versions in there too.

I have a fast version on one character, will all my people get access to it?

[Brandwynn]

I have a fast version on one character, will all my people get access to it?

yes, once it is your stable

[As_The_Bat]

Apparently you have to upgrade it before you add it to your stable. So you may have to farm a new one, upgrade it and then add that one.

It's not very intuitive.

I agree its not very intuitive.
But to upgrade it before you add it to your stable is kind of too much.
If you are a new player that dont have another horse then you probably dont know this and by the moment you get your horseshoe you find that you have to farm the same horse again because you cant upgrade your previously farmed horse.
It doesnt make much sense.

Unless theres another way that we dont know to upgrade the horse.

I think this is not WAI and that it will/should be corrected.

Any answer by SSG about it?

[As_The_Bat]

Any answer by SSG about it?

Has this question been answered by ssg somewhere else?

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

i'd say stop with introducing archaic game mechanics and turn all mounts into fast mounts. can't bring ddo out of the stone age if we are getting new things that are already old and surpassed.

"Archaic" ??? A thing that was introduced November 2019 ???

Then I've got to call old vine bottles "archaic", too ... Or even some kinds of cheese ...

No, no, no, I believe this is simply pure lazyness to want all mounts to instantly become fast ones.

Years ago someone told me about "the americans" (being one himself) : "Americans have the mindset of 'I want everything and I want it fast !' "


And, by the way, I'm sometimes so much bothered by this high speed running missing those stairs in the harbour that I'm almost cursing that high speed the second or third time my horse is in the water (near the waterworks) ... Fast speed can be a curse if you misss a narrow pathway and land in lava or elsewhere ... or get separated from the rest of the group this way (happened to me in the demon sands a few times on a certain jump point).

[Valerianus]

"Archaic" ??? A thing that was introduced November 2019 ???

Then I've got to call old vine bottles "archaic", too ... Or even some kinds of cheese ...

No, no, no, I believe this is simply pure lazyness to want all mounts to instantly become fast ones.

Years ago someone told me about "the americans" (being one himself) : "Americans have the mindset of 'I want everything and I want it fast !' "


And, by the way, I'm sometimes so much bothered by this high speed running missing those stairs in the harbour that I'm almost cursing that high speed the second or third time my horse is in the water (near the waterworks) ... Fast speed can be a curse if you misss a narrow pathway and land in lava or elsewhere ... or get separated from the rest of the group this way (happened to me in the demon sands a few times on a certain jump point).

yes archaic. totally. does not matter if it was released in 2019. it's like, you need a knife, you go to the shop, and they propose you something new that they never had in stock. aaaaand it turns out to be....a "levallois blade". but it's new! this year for the first time on sale! buy it!

archaic because movement is not something to grind, to farm. is something basic, not even a feature, ddo in this respect is prehistoric. worst offender is gear for run speed. mounts are cosmetics. plain and simple. follow me, to move around, you need just one and only one. why should you want another that has the same function? cosmetic. but no, ddo is so archaic and they keep on introducing systems that are already old and surpassed, if you want another you have to farm. you are bored, annoyed and...you are not buying, they should flood the store with mounts and make you also BUY, not only farm em. add mounts to events to make them more popular. lotro, to make an example cause it's the same company, is getting new mounts and new cosmetics every year every winter\spring\summer\autumn etc etc event. too bad events in ddo are plagued by the worst quest system anti-grouping ever...challenge. what a stupid system they are. thanks old turbine. ssg introduced mounts as items, with a special bag. years and years of complaints about inventory management and they aggravate it. then the stable update. it should have worked that way since the start. BUT it does not trasfer if you change server as i understand it...yet another archaic system, old, clumsy, server transfer, that gets in the way. with what they changed the mount bag? some trash btc green bag adding insult to injury. and the mounts? if you add a slow mount to the stable you have to farm it again + farm the horseshoe if you want the fast one? really? farm again what you have already? ok, maybe if you don't want to buy it you can have the farm options, this would be indeed nice not forcing you to buy but why are not they selling them too? really, mounts are just cosmetics. look, i don't care, i play 1 char, sometimes a second, they had their mounts already, it's not about lazyness, it's about ssg double fail, annoying customers and missing cash. and anyway, since they are cosmetics, there shouldn't even be a difference between slow and fast mounts, that's my point. movement is not a QoL to farm, that's what's prehistoric. you should agree with me i guess?, it's also about new f2p players low level chars able to AT LEAST walk at the same speed as everyone else. simply walk and move around and not left behind. did you noticed, there's no way a f2p player can get a mount...see what's archaic? they should just give one to you somehow and make you want another that looks better. instead they are just annoying.

[Glorious]

"Archaic" ??? A thing that was introduced November 2019 ???

Then I've got to call old vine bottles "archaic", too ... Or even some kinds of cheese ...

No, no, no, I believe this is simply pure lazyness to want all mounts to instantly become fast ones.

Years ago someone told me about "the americans" (being one himself) : "Americans have the mindset of 'I want everything and I want it fast !' "


And, by the way, I'm sometimes so much bothered by this high speed running missing those stairs in the harbour that I'm almost cursing that high speed the second or third time my horse is in the water (near the waterworks) ... Fast speed can be a curse if you misss a narrow pathway and land in lava or elsewhere ... or get separated from the rest of the group this way (happened to me in the demon sands a few times on a certain jump point).

I wouldn't say this is archaic - I am good to get the horse and then farm the horseshoe to make it go faster - but not being to upgrade a horse that's in your stable is just plan stoopid (misspelled on purpose) That is a ridiculous and not well thought issue with changing the inventory system for the horses. So either just make them all at the faster speed - or figure out a way to upgrade a current stabled horse with the horseshoe.

[Swimms]

This is so dumb, I finally got around to farming feathers on a second account for a buff bard I have for pulls etc, add it to my stable (happens automatically when you try and ride it), go farm a horseshoe and now I can't upgrade the thing because it has been stabled. I've been playing forever and easily made this mistake, and yes it doesn't take that long to farm up the feathers but its not the point. This is not how it worked when horses were first released "pre-stables".

[Mindos]

This is so dumb, I finally got around to farming feathers on a second account for a buff bard I have for pulls etc, add it to my stable (happens automatically when you try and ride it), go farm a horseshoe and now I can't upgrade the thing because it has been stabled. I've been playing forever and easily made this mistake, and yes it doesn't take that long to farm up the feathers but its not the point. This is not how it worked when horses were first released "pre-stables".

This is a silly bug, one that shouldn't even be in the game. I think the best solution is to allow us to drag the horse icon from the stable screen, and drop it overtop of the inventory icon. Creating a bound to character copy of the mount. Then we could apply fast horseshoes or whatever other cosmetic mount overlays onto it and then doubleclick it and add this new improved copy to the stable, overwriting the old one.

[Valerianus]

This is a silly bug, one that shouldn't even be in the game. I think the best solution is to allow us to drag the horse icon from the stable screen, and drop it overtop of the inventory icon. Creating a bound to character copy of the mount. Then we could apply fast horseshoes or whatever other cosmetic mount overlays onto it and then doubleclick it and add this new improved copy to the stable, overwriting the old one.

it's not a bug, it's just that slow\fast mount should have never been a thing i agree. instead are there to push you to......

This is so dumb, I finally got around to farming feathers on a second account for a buff bard I have for pulls etc, add it to my stable (happens automatically when you try and ride it), go farm a horseshoe and now I can't upgrade the thing because it has been stabled. I've been playing forever and easily made this mistake, and yes it doesn't take that long to farm up the feathers but its not the point. This is not how it worked when horses were first released "pre-stables".

and you are the perfect customer for the newly added mounts in store. finally they are in store.

all i said in a previous post on this thread, a sweet rant o'mine i had forgotten, it still stands, with an add-on.

time passed and now it's clear that mounts were added and fast travels were tossed out of the dev window, as a time sink with a store workaround to be less time sinked. they never wanted something new, some cosmetics, some nice feature ddo never needed, the world is so small. also a way to never revisit some old areas and adding fast travels there when players asked them for years e.g. sands. all of a sudden, such requests disappeared, but your pots are still ticking in wild and you are still creating server stressing red alert.

another not needed feature while others e.g. storage\wardrobe are left unaddressed.

i was saying, free code + borderlands mounts in store, from one side, yeah finally, from another, target audience are the alt accounts mainly + prehistoric yet again, some entry tax to new players, as ddo was some big game with no need for more blood....just give a mount for free, and no more slow\fast, all fast, but a really bad looking one, really, some omg-what-is-that-thing-fritz-bring-the-flammenwerfer material, really, players will eventually buy another, and then another....like cosmetics, since mounts (cosmetic stuff) have a stable (dedicated cosmetic closet), instead real cosmetic, where moar money lie....nope.


yeah i am saying that mounts were not needed, but since no more fast travels, they now are, but in ddo were not needed, and at the same time i'm saying that owning one is a new player entry tax, with the aggravation that is a feature ddo never needed, there is no landscape in ddo. ddo needs fast travels cause is a instance-only game and you need to jump into action if you group. yes, atm it's like run speed gear prereq to group, without it you just lag behind the party. not fun, frustration, uninstall. sure if you use a product you are supposed to spend, but first, hook em up. you know, like politicians, like we say in my country, give with the right hand and take away with the left hand...ssg, you are missing the give part.