Agreed. I have posted some truly awful content on this site that would honestly have got me banned if it was treated with those criteria. (mainly to do with expressing my point of view in an overly enthusiastic manner, to the point of being a social degenerate and always wording my own argument/point/question so that it failed to allow others to be included in my POV)


The summon a dragon and ride it mod actually worked... if anything, it made the world seem more beautiful to see it from above, but much more small. My PC was running on low graphics and handled it just fine. Of course, if you can, you should be able to get attacked by multiple dragons. Plus mounted combat. Plus city entering. Seems too complex to me.

Assuming Cities are not part of exterior game world like Oblivion. . . so is it possible that we can see a dragon preparing to attack a city, ENTER the city and have the attack never eventuate? Gee. I hope not

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/19/well-at-least-we-wont-run-out-of-dragons-in-skyrim/

Flyng dragons everywhereeeee!!

It seems like they truly haven't finished with the game features, i don't know if that's good or bad.
Speaking od riding dragons, i would say that i like it, but i consider a priority horses before dragons.

It’s pretty easy to do, however if you fly fast in around 100 meters attitude you has to show much more objects than you have to do in normal gameplay so they have to design the system for the possibility. If you remove or simplify objects it will work fine.
Am sure most tried to make high effect levitate potions in Morrowind and did some fast flying, it gave a lot of lag.

Add support for it for the modders, leave it out of the base game.

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And this. I agree. It's such a ridiculous idea and won't happen in an official capacity.

You can have a dragon attack a closed city, if you are outside you see the dragon fly over the city wall and dive down, inside the city you see it come over the wall at around the same position as it flew in, north, north-west, west ….
Coming flying inn would be harder.

I hope not. That doesn't seem like it fits the game. Plus the whole "no levitation & no going over city walls" bit makes it seem unlikely.


(Plus, I've played Divinity 2 - I got the "fly with/like a dragon" thing out of my system. It really wasn't all that amazing. :shrug:)

Worst case scenario... i could just imagine approaching a city to see it being approached by a dragon, rushing into the city just ahead of the dragon to defend it and have it go invisible on me...

Thanks for the hint to check posting history. Its appreciated, since people don't seem to use the Report button.



So you would be all right if I posted about the totally clueless people who don't seem to understand the basic forum rules, seeing as I'm not directing it at you personally? Or stating that since some people have a recent join date that they must be new and seem to know nothing at all about the game [that no one but the devs and the testing people have yet]?

Rude and condescending comes across whether or not it is directed at a specific person.

I also suggest getting back on topic, instead of ignoring the forum rules and posting about moderator actions, instead of sending a pm to the mod and asking. I guess its to be expected though, since its in the forum rules that people apparently haven't read.

I surely wouldn't like this feature. The world is small already (yes, same size as Oblivion's is small for me) and riding the dragon would make it seem even smaller. How would the game treat the "sky borders" for the dragon? How would I fly past closed cities? (sorry if I'm wrong, but aren't the cities closed in cells?)

Well for first dragon riding is not confirmed it still in discussion, attributes was in game before but then was removed, Oblivion has spears on concept arts but dont have them in game, well more likely if dragon riding will be done it will be done with mods.


Eventually some one start protect Dragon Riding just because devs mentioned it in undeceived form, while before all says thats Dragon riding is big no no just because devs mention you cannot ride them :teehee:

I cannot say thats worse then levitation at last dragon riding is also Z axis exploration and there can be interesting flying battles, there is only few difference's between dragon riding and Levitation:
- you can levitate everywhere, while ride a Dragon only when devs will decide thats its allowed for you at this point of game,
- All character specialization builds will able ride a dragon since it can be tied to quest event or dragon shout what available for all while levitation is spell so more likely warriors and rogues cannot levitate
- Dragon riding more likely is available only for player, so devs no need code logic and balance feature for NPC, while levitation can be available for mages so need proper implementation of levitation.

But if dragon riding will be done thats will be awesome there isn't much games thats allow similar features Drakan and Lair, Divinity 2 thats allow transformation into dragon for humanoid and no more.

definalty dont want dragon riding... what is this golden axe?

and if towns are walled... it suggests invisible walls stopping your dragon mid flight.

He said that they don't allow it at the current time, but "We can decide to support it at some point." Which sounds to me like saying that they don't necessarily have any plans to include dragon riding, but if they decided they wanted to do it, they could, it doesn't mean they will, it's just that if it's not in, it won't be because they couldn't do it, but because they didn't want to.



Dragon riding differs from levitation in the key fact that no dragons are involved in levitation. As I said in another thread, the main reason I have no desire to ride dragons is because it seems to me like it would effectively reduce them to the level of glorified horses. People always think of riding dragons as incredibly badass, but never seem to take into account how humiliating it must be for the dragons.



Actually, I saw people saying dragon riding should be in even before this thread, so no, people didn't start suddenly supporting the idea because Todd Howard said something that MIGHT mean dragons could be included at some point, and implying that people on these forums decide if a certain idea is good or not based on whether it's said to be in the game or not. By that logic, no one should have any desire to see spears and attributes in Skyrim, and obviously, some people DO want those things, despite it being confirmed they're not in.

as said before dragons are ancient beings and should be by far more powerfull and intelligent than average humans even the Dovonkin (wrong spelled) ... If any dragon riding is allowed it should be a pact between the dragon and the rider, a pact what runs by far more deeper than the rider and the horse ...

Well I more interested not in ridable dragons, they can be modded if really need, I interested can be there other flying cretures besids dragons, how flying mechanic work and how AI react on flying, I need this basis.

I think there will no horse like ridable dragons, more likely if Dragon riding will be done as part of quest event, this is more likely will be, we know thats we fight evil black dragons Jills, as well there is mentioned there can be non hostile dragons, what if they will allow ride them for certain quest in MQ like dragons in Dragonlance saga?
Dragons in Dragonlance are also intelligent beings but they allow ride them even evil chromatic ones, who dislike puny humans.


Well its only my opinion of course but Bukee definitely not from such category of peoples who desire to see spears and attributes in Skyrim, I'm such surprised thats he not say thats dragon riding is completely gamebreaker :teehee:

I think they could do it as like a one time thing when you beat the game and you fly back to your original home/town but not as a "whenever you want" type thing

I agree with 3, but they already confirmed a dragon summon shout. I wouldn't use it much, but wouldn't care if they added a dragon mount.
Also, most people probably won't have access to mods.

Naah... that won't happen. And I personally hope it doesn't. Riding dragons would be fun for 10 minutes or so, but it would be pretty cheesy if you ask me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mABmZETHaRE&feature=channel_video_title

if it was going to be done (it probably won't be) I think it would be a feature exclusive to the PC because to be honest the PC would be the only system that would be able to render the ground properly from the air maybe in a mod or something I think air to air combat with two Dragons would be cool but i don't think it will be done this time

Agreed. Dragon riding would add a whole new level of goofiness that Skyrim really doesn't need. It turns what should be a proud, menacing beast into nothing more than a flying horse.

As the author of the article says: "Although I am not much of an RPG fan, if they allowed you to actually ride dragons, I’d definitely check the game out." - Seems this type of thing appeals mainly to non-RPG fans who simply want Just Cause 2-style open world mayhem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGYRaUE45U

Seriously though, i completly agree with this. Dragons should be proud and independent. And also they should be something rare to see...not a common creature. Wich brings me back to the link i posted before were they said that there are going to be "unlimited number of dragons".

I'd rather not see it, unless I could use said dragon to go around Skyrim torching villages, and cities alike.

i must admit mounting a mammoth sounds by far more cooler if you ask me

guys the CITIES ARE CLOSED, no flying! plz no more threads about flying dragons