Animal Mounts

Yeah, you can roll around like Master-Blaster. LMAO

Since they put in a flying taxi on alderaan, I was hoping to see some other animal taxi routes, like a dewback on Tat or Tauntaun on hoth, those would have been fun, outside of that i think the dev's have been pretty clear we will not be owning any animal mounts, but you never know nothing is written in stone.

I would like to see multi-passenger speeders of some kind, those could be fun..

Because obviously there were no animal mounts in the movies

you wont be seeing mounts that touch the ground in this game ever. it is not a lore issue or a preference issue or a stand out from ALL THE REST of the mmo rabble with ground contact mounts.

it is engine and path related, not saying it CANT be done im telling you all it wont be done, the way they designed the speeder system and how they designed the hoverbikes negates ground contact mounts. i too was kinda bummed when i heard NO ground contact mounts in swtor ever. i too wish i could ride a dew back or bantha. even a taun taun would be cool.

so i too wish upon a star, but realize it wont happen anytime soon. no ground contact mounts is pretty much the devs answer to this.

SWG was an awsome 'sandbox' MMO. It died when the "combat upgrade" (CU) took place. The game was "broken" from a combat perspective to be sure but, in the end it was liveable. What made that game great was the ability for players to make their own events, control a robust economy, create an entertainment industry, player housing, politics. etc. All of this player controlled. On intrepid server there were regular "woodstock like events" called Groovfest that SOE even participated in. Some times Iconic characters would show up to the player events (e.g. Darth Vader). There were even raids by the Sand People (Groovfest was on Tatooine). There were player controlled concert tours that hit all the major cities and player cities. There was so much to do and explore because the players of pre-cu and not SOE made the game work.

TL;DR: Combatwise SWG was meh but liveable. The strength was the pre-cu player community. I miss pre-cu SWG.

I would love planet specific biological mounts.

Like Tauntaun in Hoth. Or a Bantha in Tatooine.

I can't imagine a Tauntaun in Tatooine.

I personally think there needs to be more planet specific variation of taxi speeders. Not only creature mount varieties (like on Alderaan) but also the mechanical speeders themselves vs the 2-4 models available in game (Rep/Imp). I mean not all planets might be able to afford speeders from the galactic monopolies, there should be local options.

OP is a troll. God are you people that blind?

Banthas, at least, would not actually have to touch the ground, just hover really near it, moving their legs, with some fur hanging down to hide the last few inches.

Thats exactly what people want. Immersion and awesome fun looking mounts. Bounding around the fleet on a monstrous bantha! Hilarious. A gaggle of taun-tauns doing that screechy death wail together in the Cantina? Maddening yet hysterical.