Air Travel / Transport

I prefer to avoid air travel in this game type and don't really support any of it whatsoever in Ashes if it were my call. No airships, no blimps, no hot air balloons.

This is one of those things where I have no idea what they're thinking though, so I realize that this is just me 'playing it safe' design wise without knowing what great ideas they have in mind.

I also have globophobia, but I'm sure that's unrelated.

I'm personally against big flying vessels at release and definitely against widespread solo flying. That kind of verticality should be added once the game can't reasonably grow wider. I could maybe agree with a singular huge airship between the two continents that operates on its own, has predisposed locations on both sides and requires 2 metros in those locations to get activated (with mayor's help too).

Make it some ancient local magic to avoid the "if we have the tech, why da fuck is it only here" debacle and we're golden. Oh, and that ship should move suuuper rarely. Like, 1-2 times a day.

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I believe that is kinda already the case. I'm talking air ships which would prevent this exact event from happening.

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You mean in the sky?

I'm already looking forward to throwing people off/being thrown off of the TL Sky Whale, yes, but I don't think it would fit in Ashes.

If you meant on the ocean, that would almost automatically be a thing, right (and also kinda unrelated to the topic).

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Being attacked on the Ferry would make me pretty nostalgic, sure. But then players would want to be able to sink the public ferry with their warships, and then it will just get weird.

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I still think people would try to get a big blockade together on the ferry path just to see if they could do it.

But yes, I expect Ashes to have this for the same reason I usually do .

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That scarcity is exactly the point. Anyone who truly wants to fly will bust their ass to maximize their chance to fly. And anyone who doesn't care enough will just awe in how cool the flying dudes are. Seeing a super rare flying dragon during a siege or, especially, during daily gameplay would be amazing. You'd immediately know that the owner is at the top of the game at this moment.

Games need more mechanics like this. We need more wonder in mmos.

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Becoming a mayor is not as easy as just "I wanted it, I got it". If those players managed to become mayors of damn metropoli - they deserve the flying mount for a month.

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And let them do it. As you said, other nodes will already be unrelated to purely "proper" leaders. That's the entire point. We'll have variety of leaders with variety of goals. But all of them will be best at what they're doing and will be rewarded with a flying mount, as well as overall prestige and renown on the server.

This is not real life. I won't care if my mayor got to their power because they wanted a flying toy or because they wanted to be a mayor for a dozen other reasons. I'll only care about what they do with the power. But if there's no one else strong enough to remove that mayor from their position - that just means that their goal was even worse than "I want to fly lol".

Again, the work should pay off, because the work has to be hard in this context. Economic metropolis will probably cost millions to outbid, military will have hundreds of people gunning for the chair, same with divine. And scientific nodes will be controlled purely by huge guilds and maybe a few streamers. Getting a flying mount for overcoming all of that stuff seems fine to me.