First of all I'd like to start this thread saying that I don't like horses...
So therefor its really important for me that if there are mounts, there are more than just horses (and a damn Unicorn is a horse!)... I hope for a large varerity in mounts, streching from horses, to goats, to bears, to cliffracers (before you tell me how much you hate 'em take a look at Morrowinds sloughterfish, Cliffracers atleast looked cool, and sounded cool.), to Khajits (its lore-wise that two species of Khajit work as mounts), to much more...

But now to the real point with this thread, "Why should they implerment horses and other horse-like animals if you can't ride them?" Well I'd like it if they allowed you to make your horses (goats, donkeys, etc.) carry heavy carts, or carry backpacks... then if you activate them you could either tell them to stop, follow you, equip a cart/place a pack onto them, or acces the cart/pack currently on them. This may be hard to do... but it would atleast give a point (and a use) for horses... even if horses are ride-able, I still hope that you can equip carts/packs onto them... this would also give them a purpose even though fast-travel is included...
and I personally think I'd be cool as hell, walking down the road, with your horse/animal slave right behind you and carrying a wagon...
I'd also be pretty cool to ambush other traders wagons, lead the animal of the road, cut it down, pick up whatever you can carry, and run before the trader gets to you...
Here's some things pack animals could add to the game:
- Real actual traveling merchants, who you could do buisness with, travel with, wait for their arival in a town, or ambush them and take control of the animal get a safe distance from its owner and then opens its pack.
- Use for horses if you can't ride 'em.
- A reason to not use fastravel (your pack animal won't travel with you... and if your out of sight and its not been told to stay/tied to a tree it might run away.
- Extra purchable things: Pack animals, packs to equip on them, carts/wagons to tie onto them.
- Extra purchable inventory space.
and much more... so Bethesda please add pack animals... and please don't make the packs/wagon a permanent part of 'em...
please tell me what you think of my idea, also please post your own ideas of how to make mount-creatures usefull besides being able to ride 'em... and ofcourse please post what creatures you want to see.

mmmmm. horse meat...

Well of course you should be able to kill your mount and then eat it...

I don't really care. I'm fine with just horses. Though a backpack horse/donkey slave would be pretty awesome. And if Bethesda doesn't implement it modders will. I feel sorry for myself and all other console players.

A mule would be great for traversing rocky terrain. Wouldn't make much sense if the horse kept on going up steep inclines like it could in Oblivion (though, admittedly, those were exploits).

I really hope they allow horses to have backpacks strapped to their sides. And you could possibly rope up your horse to a tree or something so it doesn't run off.

shouldn't this poll be multi-choice?

my choice: ostrich.

ADDED A POLL...

Yeah... but I changed it since I want more than 20 different animals to ride... and I clicked a button by mistake before I finished it...

Hopefully we will only see it for horses and other plausible or similar creatures,who knows a mammoth or something.
And whats with people and wanting Unicorns,goats,dragons,cliffracers?!?!?
Just wait for mods for that and don't ask for Beth to waste time on that please,they're busy for sure as it is without having to read about that lol.

I said I didn't want a damn Unicorn... and I didn't mention Dragons...
also I can't imagine a Mammoth carrying a cart but it would look cool as hell if it carried tons of bags and packs...

This would be great. Could be tricky to mod though? I can't remember a similar mod for Oblivion...

Just horses would be fine with me, but damn they better have horse mounts! I don't even care if it's not perfectly executed, as long as it's somewhat better than Oblivion, I will like it.

i wanna ride a netch >.> just tie a basket under it and ride it like a hot air baloon. it would be glorious

I would actually prefer just system which would allow for pack animals than horse-only mounts if they are as useless as in OB...

I want a pony ! or a clifracer ! or even better you should be able to mount the Lochness Monster O_O

i want to ride a dragon! id ride anything though... horses dragons mammoths etc as long as they have mounts ill be happy and if we can race them that would be even better!

Me too. :disguise:

Sorry, but the modding statement is true of the majority of threads in this forum! :biggrin: However, I personally used a pack-donkey mod in Oblivion, and loved it. I never actually rode it, I used fast travel, but it was cute as it followed me around, and it carried all my stuff around! Useful for "loner" characters, which I didn't play all that often, but still.

Senche would be cool. Because they're intelligent, it could be a part of a quest wherein the Senche agrees to be your companion/steed.

But what would be the plan for when your pack animal dies? There's gonna be an awful lot of loot to carry back yourself.

That's the fun with it... you gotta protect your pack animal... be prepared... or face the consiquences...
the only real way to be prepared is to bring two pack animals... ones who's bags are empty and one who's bags are full...
Also know what would be cool? If when you get ambushed by bandits half of 'em will lead you pack animal off or slaughter it right there... its only fair since you could do the same thing...

Bear Cavalry

With http://www.thejay.com/wp-content/goldencompasspolarbear.jpg DLC pack, for one dollar.

that would be so cool

I like maybe making the PC inventory more realistic (or at least less extreme) and then maybe being able to store extra loot with the horse.

Yeah I never found it realistic carrying 15 swords and an axe + five suits of armor...