Guild Wars 2

We need mounts for this game. Seriously.

There are times when I want to get from point A to point B, but I don’t want to navigate my character because I’m busy typing in chat or playing around with my gear, looks and stuff. But I really want to enjoy the scenery with a couple of friends. My suggestion, would be to create some Dolyak Caravan where a few players can sit inside. It would have a maximum speed of walk, which is much slower than run speed, because Dolyaks are very slow creatures. Occasionally it would stop to munch grass as well! That would be cool, and the caravan could add a passing vendor that sells drinks and fireworks.

Things like this could be Guild perks that are bought with , say, 50k Influence. Our guild has over 150k influence and no way to spend it, because we have over 200 regular members but very few WvWers. Some sort of Guild party mechanic would also be cool.

The Dolyak Caravan could simply follow the road, a series of waypoints, and not be usable in Orr (who wants furry undead Dolyaks?).

Well, I was expecting this to be the typical “We need mounts to move faster!” post. But instead it’s a nice idea. I’d say it’s more like caravan than a mount.

On a similar style to the caravan escort events where they go from one outpost to another, however you are just taking a ride. I guess you are allowed to ride for a fee based on the dangers along the path or spend karma. Also, if the “caravan” is attacked, you can help defend it. If not, it dies and you have to walk to your destination.

+1 to this suggestion. I actually liked the idea of doing a talk show while in a caravan it would be awesome. Please vote this up!

Now, THIS is actually a neat idea.

We don’t need no stinking mounts in Guild Wars, but having something like a caravan should be very fun

You got my vote. Good Idea. I was expecting the same, need mounts to go faster thread as well, but glad this is not. +1 vote from me.

Not bad at all… but I’d rename the topic to something like caravans instead of mounts. There are a lot of knee jerk reactions to mounts.

I was about to go “This has been done to death! Go away, vulture!” but then I read the post.

I’m amazed at the fact that you aren’t desperately picking at the corpse of a dead topic and pleased as well. This is actually a good idea, +1.

Wow. Great idea. Only issue I see is that sometimes it would get attacked.

Caravan points that do not get contested and cost less but will take longer time for you to get there. /signed.

daemon.1387:

Caravan points that do not get contested and cost less but will take longer time for you to get there. /signed.

I also like this idea. They then can make an event to keep the caravan moving and clearout the way point.

Sorry, I really don’t see the point of this, outside of just the novelty of it. You want to travel from point A to point B, but don’t want to put any effort into navigating your character? That’s exactly what the waypoints are for. I know having to pay for them is unappealing, but it’s a necessary evil.

It’s not like they could just slap down a dolyak caravan route, to and from every location you could possibly ever want to go to. Settlements get taken over, there are countless obstacles in the way, enemy monsters will attack you, and dolyaks can’t jump over rocks and mountains. They’d either have to severely limit the caravans to take safe, flat roads between a handful of major locations, or redesign the landscape to make it flatter and more boring for the rest of us.

Maybe the solution to your issue could be something like the zeppelins or boats they had in World of Warcraft — but, all that would serve is to just artificially add wait times to your travels just so you can chat and maintain your inventory. If that’s what this is for, you might as well just stand there, do your business, and warp when you’re ready.

By all means, if they find a way to make a caravan system interesting and useful in certain instances, then go for it. I just don’t think the result will end up serving as a transit solution with any efficiency or regularity.

a very interesting idea. really like to see this implemented in some form.