Flying Sausage skin for Griffon

[Sithis.3564]

I saw this flying saucer topic and just couldn't resist. Imagine.. sausages raining down from the sky.

[Westenev.5289]

I want a poptart cat who poops rainbows. It would match my dreamer perfectly.

[Belorn.2659]

This is exactly the kind of skins I hope anet will make. I am completely uninterested in different dyed versions of existing skins. A skin should make you feel like its a unique mount that just happen to have same game mechanic as the old ones.

For example, the meteor glider don't feel like a glider. It share every game aspect of gliders but the impact of landing is emphasized, which in wvw create a different feel compared to ordinary gliders.

[Omega.6801]

I think what you see with gliders are the boundaries of immersion breaking screenclutter. Inside that, anything goes even for mounts. The sausage is not going to happen, at least I hope so, same goes for Nyancat.What we will most likely see will be 2k Gems skins or bundles, extra big and flashy(think Eaglespirit or Comet glider), childish and cutesy(think Valentine's Wings or plushies), impractical but "funny"(Rooster glider) and all sorts of whacky stuff I would never wear.I'm sure there will be:

• a Mount-o-Tron bundle
• Wintersday Mounts, Decorated for the season and farting snowflakes and/or Toy Mounts
• Valentines Mounts, Basic skin, 2-3 Dye channels, farting hearts or roses
• Lunar New Year Mounts, either a bundle: Basic Skin, 3 Dye channels, some chinese looking decoration, might be partially transparent and/or, since it's the year of the dog, a single overpriced Jackal skin
• Kinda racial looking mounts, in the way some Outfits are kinda designed with a certain in game cultural style in mind

What I would actually appreciate simpler skins as long as they're dyeable right, i.e. have 3 or 4 channels.For example:

• Warpainted Mounts, Basic skins with warpaint painted on them to look extra fierce or whatever
• Beasts of Tyria Mounts, A skin for each Mount, models would be Animals from the open world, Young Wyvern-->Griffon, Moa-->Raptor etc.
• Guild Mounts, Basic skin, some decoration or banner showing the guild's emblem
• Racial Mounts(the easy road), Basic skins with racial saddles.

But it's all a matter of personal taste and I think more options are always better than sticking to just one style or direction with skins.

What worries me more is the aquisition they will give us. I fear, better say, I am almost certain, seeing how things went with gliders, that the skins will be a gemstore exclusive thing, no in game method of getting the mounts besides maybe a set of skins they will call lagendary which is, of course, accompanied with the legendary grind for time mats and everything else(think Ascension, Ad Infinitum, Warthingy from WvW).Having Mount skins, as well as Glider skins, as a reward for things in game would be a great incentive for players to play content. I understand ANet is a business and they have to make money. But they also should have some interest in ppl actually playing the game every now and then. No one wants to buy those fancy gemstore items if there's no one else to show them off to, right? I'm all in for them putting the fancy, flashy, funny, whacky stuff in the gemstore, I just really wish that there will be some mounts obtainable in game(no, farm gold-->gold to gems-->gems to mounts doesn't count ;))

[Hevoskuuri.3891]

+1 for flying sausage.

They could also make a proper in-game collection, where you start off with a sausage and eventually end up with a hot dog.

[Razor.6392]

Is this the "xD" skin suggestions that most games have every now and then?

Stop doing memes people.

[huehuehueh.5106]

They could even make cocktail weenies for minis

[sephiroth.4217]

@lokh.2695 said:I think what you see with gliders are the boundaries of immersion breaking screenclutter. Inside that, anything goes even for mounts. The sausage is not going to happen, at least I hope so, same goes for Nyancat.What we will most likely see will be 2k Gems skins or bundles, extra big and flashy(think Eaglespirit or Comet glider), childish and cutesy(think Valentine's Wings or plushies), impractical but "funny"(Rooster glider) and all sorts of whacky stuff I would never wear.I'm sure there will be:

• a Mount-o-Tron bundle
• Wintersday Mounts, Decorated for the season and farting snowflakes and/or Toy Mounts
• Valentines Mounts, Basic skin, 2-3 Dye channels, farting hearts or roses
• Lunar New Year Mounts, either a bundle: Basic Skin, 3 Dye channels, some chinese looking decoration, might be partially transparent and/or, since it's the year of the dog, a single overpriced Jackal skin
• Kinda racial looking mounts, in the way some Outfits are kinda designed with a certain in game cultural style in mind

What I would actually appreciate simpler skins as long as they're dyeable right, i.e. have 3 or 4 channels.For example:

• Warpainted Mounts, Basic skins with warpaint painted on them to look extra fierce or whatever
• Beasts of Tyria Mounts, A skin for each Mount, models would be Animals from the open world, Young Wyvern-->Griffon, Moa-->Raptor etc.
• Guild Mounts, Basic skin, some decoration or banner showing the guild's emblem
• Racial Mounts(the easy road), Basic skins with racial saddles.

But it's all a matter of personal taste and I think more options are always better than sticking to just one style or direction with skins.

What worries me more is the aquisition they will give us. I fear, better say, I am almost certain, seeing how things went with gliders, that the skins will be a gemstore exclusive thing, no in game method of getting the mounts besides maybe a set of skins they will call lagendary which is, of course, accompanied with the legendary grind for time mats and everything else(think Ascension, Ad Infinitum, Warthingy from WvW).Having Mount skins, as well as Glider skins, as a reward for things in game would be a great incentive for players to play content. I understand ANet is a business and they have to make money. But they also should have some interest in ppl actually playing the game every now and then. No one wants to buy those fancy gemstore items if there's no one else to show them off to, right? I'm all in for them putting the fancy, flashy, funny, whacky stuff in the gemstore, I just really wish that there will be some mounts obtainable in game(no, farm gold-->gold to gems-->gems to mounts doesn't count ;))

A plush Griffon that farts snowflakes? Yes please!

[Zoltar MacRoth.7146]

+10 flying sausage.+100 flying sphagetti monster.

[Shikigami.4013]

Is this the correct thread for absurd mount suggestions? Ah, great, I knew it :)How about a wintersday griffon skin suggestion....a santa sleigh pulled by gift skritt:The sled skids could have little asuragates with sparkly effects for all those who love to sit on their mount in the city so that they can be seen....

Imgur link in case something breaks

[Just a flesh wound.3589]

A sausage/hot dog mount.

Just what the game needs (or maybe not).

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

@"Just a flesh wound.3589" said:A sausage/hot dog mount.

Just what the game needs (or maybe not).

Hairy, round, animal print on chest... which is a tattoo, unshaved body, looks drunk.Clearly the image of a Norn.

[TheNecrosanct.4028]

The fact that there already are some immersion breaking skins in the game (SAB skins, for example) doesn't mean you have to take that principle to its extreme. The day I see people flying around on sausages is the day I abandon Tyria forever. I really do hope ANet will never listen and give in to these ridiculous ideas.

[Esquilax.3491]

I am nearly certain there will be 8 bit themed SAB mounts, and I am certain they will cause community outrage for "immersion breaking" and "eye+ear bleeding".

I've got my popcorn ready for that one.

[Miko.4158]

+1 for sausage mountsdye channels for choice of sauce

[Shirlias.8104]

Flying Spaghetti Mount

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

@Shirlias.8104 said:

Flying Spaghetti Mount

But we already have that in the RNG Mountbox for Skimmer.

[Sithis.3564]

I like where this is going.