Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25178962-20140716145327/@comment-25178962-20140719131954

Qoazi's suggestion seems very interesting, to say the least. Using a 'horse seat' seems like a creative solution to this problem. It could be a seat as large as the perimeter of its four legs, and could go in front of the mast on all three of the large ships (with the possible exception of Merchant Frigates, where there could only be one horse seat in front of the mast closest to the driver's seat for space concerns, unless there could be room for a second one in front of the second mast). Also, we could make horse seats a user-created item as well, with a recipe like this:

Small Tree Stump + Small Tree Stump > Create Item = Horse Seat

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This would also bring about a new motivation for naval combat, in that horse-users would be unable to outrun their enemies as easily while on the open sea, and thusly, their mounts would be most susceptible to injury or capture.