Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25178962-20140716145327/@comment-24899099-20140719125028

NoBanana wrote: You still haven't tackled the main issue. Transport.

There is nothing in the centre of mainland worth spending metals on to get to quicker, and boats are faster, cheaper, and better. All of mainlands goodies are coastal, therefore charging around on a horse is pointless.

There is nothing on desert to go to quickly. The only reason anyone would go there is for mithril or prickly pears. You don't need many prickly pears, and they're close to the coast, and a horse won't help with mithril mining.

Therefore the only use for them is general purpose speed boosts. However, since it would take 10x as long to get a horse to another island as it would to just sail from A-B and walk to your destination on the island, there isn't any point.

Tackle this issue. Don't work around it. One way to help with traveling would be if the horse could jump, We could then quite easily get horses onto large ships (Merchant Frigate,Large Sailboat or the War sloop) and perhaps have some kind of Horse seat that locks the horse in Place until it jumps off (Only jumps when the rider pushes space) If we don't make a seat then you could just use welded planks, I've Heard of animals glitching out of the boat however i have never encountered it myself, Not even with 4 bentos trapped together on a boat. also, If i was on mainland and wanted to go to the lonely Lynx for example then i'd much rather use a horse and cut across mainland rather then use a boat to go around it, this applies to more locations, Also if you live on mainland it'll help reach the Caves faster, Chase down raiders and such things.