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Estiar@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There’s a lot of hidden costs and infrastructure needed for magical flying beasts. Not to mention limited capacity. Little can compete with the horse drawn cart when it comes to capacity for price though.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TheFriar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Big horse killed my baby
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They are opportunistic carnivores after all
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is that what Bojack Horseman is all about?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, my baby _loooved_heroin.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All magic comes with a price.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What can I get for tree-fiddy?
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, it was about that time when I noticed that Rumpelstiltskin was about 8 stories tall and Crustacean from the Protozoic era…
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It just costs 1 gold coin a month…
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have giant hummingbird mounts in my game, but guess what? They need nectar from giant flowers, or just barrels full of sugar water, and/or they sometimes pick fights with giant insects in order to try and eat them. (Fun fact, hummingbirds eat small insects IRL) They’re dead useful and loads of fun, but it exacts it’s price.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m so very glad that I never tried to enlarge my pseudodragon familiar to try and ride him into battle. Never even thought about the fact that pseudodragons cannot pay attention for shit.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Big chocobo disagree with you
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Large chocobo is pretty neat but can’t compete with my spherical sheep mount
Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 months ago
True
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plus, not every species can be domesticated. Gryphons and dragons are independent and not herd animals. So they may not understand the concept of following a leader, which is an important part of domestication. And if they did, you’d probably have to best them in combat before they’d do it.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
But you can talk to them and make friends with them
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This assumes two things: That I am capable of making friends and that I would then not feel weird asking to ride on my new friend.
Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 11 months ago
Is it not normal to ask if u can ride ur friend?
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Estiar@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I could never ask Fluttershy to haul things for me. At that point, I would start carrying things for her
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Gladaed@feddit.de 11 months ago
This, but also for coal power in the 80s and 90s.
Cypher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Boats beat out horse drawn carts by an insane amount.
It’s why trade hubs and major cities were practically always on a major river and/or in a favourable location for a port.
I find most campaigns severely lack river transportation
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yep, not having a bunch of your trade going to feeding and caring for your horses makes a huge difference.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Boats can also move much more than a horse and cart. More than a pair of bullock even
cynar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone’s never owned a boat.
There are 3 idioms that come to mind.
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into.
A boat owner is only happy twice. When they buy a boat, and when they sell it.
“You don’t want to buy a boat. What you want is a friend with a boat!”
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
A boat for personal use and a boat for trade use are two very different things.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
For trading, boats have always been better in regards to the amount of stuff you can carry, even back before sails were invented. Also, unlike roads, water doesn’t need maintenance, it just needs to be at a high enough level that the boat won’t crash into rocks or whatever.