Horse suggestion/anti-theft.

brock128 · #1 04-06-2003, 02:40 AM

Okay, I tied my horse to a peg. When I came back, it was gone! It turned out sombody pet the horse enough for it to love them, and they took the peg. They were hugging the horse when I get back.
Make it so that other people cannot pet the horse when it is pegged. And only the owner can pick up the peg they placed.

DragonX · #2 04-06-2003, 02:46 AM

Jagen suggested that for a horse not to be stolen you can make a collar for it which I think is a nicer suggestion XD

brock128 · #3 04-06-2003, 02:47 AM

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Originally posted by DragonX
Jagen suggested that for a horse not to be stolen you can make a collar for it which I think is a nicer suggestion XD

That could work too. If it loves you 100%, you can put a collar on it, and it will listen to nobody else, or somthing...

kenyonandelliot · #4 04-06-2003, 04:21 AM

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Originally posted by DragonX
Jagen suggested that for a horse not to be stolen you can make a collar for it which I think is a nicer suggestion XD

Heh, yesterday I PMed Stefan with like 8 ideas and one of them was a collar. And also when I get off the horse sometimes it disapears!

FFXRikku · #5 04-06-2003, 04:25 AM

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Originally posted by kenyonandelliot

Heh, yesterday I PMed Stefan with like 8 ideas and one of them was a collar. And also when I get off the horse sometimes it disapears!

That happened to me too. They're really glitchy.

Kaiser2 · #6 04-06-2003, 04:39 AM

Collar idea isn't bad, I guess it would be nice, and...can't you peg your horse in your house?

FFXRikku · #7 04-06-2003, 04:44 AM

I like that collar idea. It would resolve the problem of all the horse stealers.

Kaiser2 · #8 04-06-2003, 04:58 AM

There should be a horse thief collar, like, it latches onto their throat if they try stealing your horse, and then they can't move for like a day...or until the owner sets them free >:] joy.

FFXRikku · #9 04-06-2003, 05:03 AM

Yes, and all the horse stealers would feel ashamed of themselves. :P

Kaiser2 · #10 04-06-2003, 05:12 AM

But of course, due to RPing and such, if your agility level is high enough, you should be able to avoid being caught, and RP the nimble thief

Tyhm · #11 04-07-2003, 01:30 PM

The idea I had was if it likes anyone more than 75%, it likes nobody else more than 75%. If it gets hungry, it likes the owner less and less until at the time it would normally starve it's at about 70% - giving you 5% of wiggle room to save abandoned pets, but you have to really neglect your horse for it to go free.

Falados · #12 04-07-2003, 04:01 PM

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but you have to really neglect your horse for it to go free.

If you hit the horse while its roaming, it lowers its 'Like Factor' considerably.

zell12 · #13 04-07-2003, 04:08 PM

Yes, that does get annoying. You are hugging a horse, slash it, and it hates you. Slashing your horse or pet shouldn't make the pets love for you go down. What if your fighting someone and you hit it a bunch, then it hates you. -_-

Better idea would be as the horses' con goes down the horses love for you goes down as well. When your horse has 50%, it can then be claimed by anyone else.

Satrek2000 · #14 04-08-2003, 02:12 PM

I was chopping trees while my horse decided to walk between the tree and my axe...

Anyway, what about that: when you hatch a horse, you get a piece of the egg, let's say with a hoove-imprint or whatever, in your inventory. It signifies that you own the horse, like it always follows the one with it's shell. Also, the name of the one who hatched it should be saved and displayed in the right-click-infos. Now you could even trade the piece of shell, and whoever has it is concidered the owner - so nobody could really steal your horse, maybe abduct it, but never claim it as his own...
Oh, and you shouldn't be able to sell the shellpiece in shops... no, no eating your pets x_X

konidias · #15 04-09-2003, 08:28 PM

Blah, pegging your horse to the ground should automatically protect it from theft. I mean you tied it to the ground, it's yours, you own it. Nobody should be able to take it when you have it tied down.

My horse also got stolen, I think it's pretty crappy that people steal horses. I mean it takes forever to hug them to 75% anyway, just get your own damn horse. It's just downright cruel to steal a horse, especially one that is pegged down and obviously has an owner.

Kaiser2 · #16 04-09-2003, 09:00 PM

IRL, you can remove the peg.

brock128 · #17 04-10-2003, 01:46 AM

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Originally posted by konidias
Blah, pegging your horse to the ground should automatically protect it from theft. I mean you tied it to the ground, it's yours, you own it. Nobody should be able to take it when you have it tied down.

Technically speaking, they can grab the peg if this were real life. But this is an online RPG. So we need to make it so they can't.

DragonX · #18 04-10-2003, 03:39 AM

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Originally posted by brock128

Technically speaking, they can grab the peg if this were real life. But this is an online RPG. So we need to make it so they can't.

If the peg isnt yours would you remove it? No, that would be stealing and you'd get punished so if you steal pegs here, technically you should get punished....soo?

CheeToS2 · #19 04-10-2003, 03:56 AM

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Originally posted by Satrek2000
I was chopping trees while my horse decided to walk between the tree and my axe...

Anyway, what about that: when you hatch a horse, you get a piece of the egg, let's say with a hoove-imprint or whatever, in your inventory. It signifies that you own the horse, like it always follows the one with it's shell. Also, the name of the one who hatched it should be saved and displayed in the right-click-infos. Now you could even trade the piece of shell, and whoever has it is concidered the owner - so nobody could really steal your horse, maybe abduct it, but never claim it as his own...
Oh, and you shouldn't be able to sell the shellpiece in shops... no, no eating your pets x_X

I like that idea :P

On another note, yeah, I think you shouldn't be able to remove a peg that isn't yours, and the pegs really need to be debugged, they're very laggy x.x

Kaiser2 · #20 04-10-2003, 08:38 PM

THIS is what thief class should be for, people say thieves suck, so this could be what they can do, so, a thief can steal a horse, or at least remove the peg, then be able to break into those NPC houses that say "That door is locked" and should have like...a 500% better chance of stealing working for them against enemies.

Satrek2000 · #21 04-11-2003, 07:41 PM

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Originally posted by Kaiser2
...then be able to break into those NPC houses that say "That door is locked"...

That sounds fine to me, as long as you restrict it to those - nobody'd want his house robbed, we all know that. But there could be more 'locked' houses arround graal and on the kingdom islands, and filled with random stuff, not too good, but not too bad either - then, there should be a kind of alert a while later and a chance to find traces of who the thief was. That is, the less skilled someone is the more likely he'd caught or pursued...