Goblin Squad Member
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I voted for mounts based on the original post. Here are me reason
1. Anytime someone states in the beginning of the post, "I have been gaming since the eon of time and therefor you better listening to me" usually has not thought through all aspect of their statements.
2. Statements that appear to be fact are merely opinion such as "Most people will not travel frequently". There is no proof of that. The only thing I can thing is that the group you are with stays in one location, Where my group loves to travel, while another group seek to PVP.
3. Explores, like me, love our mounts. It allows us to get to locations we want to explore. We do not blaze through anything we take our time. But our time is important to us. We do not like traveling slowing through areas we have already seen. We want to get to the next unexplored region to explore it, Not just reveal it on our mini map. Some places are good from mount exploration while others you have to do on foot. Vanguard and Lord of the Rings Online (Lotro) where fine examples of mounts where I could go anywhere and explore. Also once we are done exploring we want to get back to our base location as quickly as we can and a mount helps explorers like me do that.
4. Map Size. "The size of a map is how long it takes you to cross it" This is just wrong. If this were true why not make us walk everywhere and have no jog or run. Size of the Map is the Size of the Map. How you decide to cross is and what you decide to get out of that travel should be entirely up to you. I know for me riding by on horseback Just shows me other areas I want to visit but I may not be able to as I may be on another errand, such as meeting a friend in a bar.
For me mounts allow me to enjoy the game better. I love moving constantly. In fact in games such a Star Wars Galaxy I built my home I visited it maybe once every other month just to make sure it was still there. The rest of the time was exploring and traveling. I knew people all over the place but my core group of friends were travelers like me. We never stayed in one place. I am sure there are group of players just the opposite where they stay in one place and know some travelers.
Good luck to all and I look forward to seeing you in game. If you need a scout or someone to deliver an item look me up I will do it even if I have to crawl to get it done.