pack horses

[octavian]

Hey all, I was playing mount&blade last night when it occurred to me how ridiculous it was that you could carry large amounts of cargo even without having horses in your inventory. For example… I go to curaw buy six units of iron and carry it to sargoth without the aid of pack horses… seems a tad odd to me. So I tried to come up with a solution that wasn’t too complex.

Pack horses concept idea

In your inventory… instead of having one big inventory it would be divided up into:

Items
> 6 slots, all items without a weight value (shields, swords, armor etc)
Pack Horses
>3 slots at default with an additional 2 for every inventory management skill
Cargo
>0 slots +3 for every horse in the pack horse inventory section
any extra horses that you may have that cannot fit in your pack horses inventory section may be placed in here with out using up one of the slots (a new empty slot would appear for every horse placed in here) self propelled baggage you might say.

Now I know I have a tendency to make things more complicated than absolutely necessary… so if you guys think this would simply be a useless piece of micromanagement just tell me to go away.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

Actually pack horses are already in the game. Having a load of merchandise/loot/socks/whatnot without having extra horses in your inventory slows you down tremendously

 

[Volkier]

Bwahahahaha before ingolifs or narcissus can tell ya to use the search function, this shall be the day where I beat them to it! Cities shall perish.. countries fall... OCEANS DIMINISH! BWAHAHAHA

 

[octavian]

actually i did search... twice and yes i realize that it slows you down... but honestly, the only way to carry that stuff in real life would be going back and forth repeatedly.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/viewtopic.php?t=5777&highlight=inventory

http://forums.taleworlds.com/viewtopic.php?t=5365&highlight=inventory

i assume those are some of the posts you were referring to??? i felt my idea was different/expanded the concept enough to warrant this thread.

 

[maw]

k... here's how ya might do it.... for those who wanna try.... and are smarter and more sober....

mod one of the horses to be a recruitable NPC Hero, called 'Pack Horse', use the Zendar Chest as it's holding commands (basically the zendar chest configured to look like a horse and recuitable).

do all the other little tweaks to 'buy' it through your converstation.txt from someone... or just get it for free at start. you can even edit the speed and amount it holds. hell you could call it a wagon and have an inventory management of 10.....

it'll take up a slot, hang with you, and you can store stuff in it... you could also prolly leave it at the inn packed ta the mane with whatever you want...

mind you, this be theory. someone more attuned ta the force would know how difficult itd be. but, methinks it can be done based on what i see of the python editor. maw

 

[Kdar]

Bwahahahaha before ingolifs or narcissus can tell ya to use the search function, this shall be the day where I beat them to it! Cities shall perish.. countries fall... OCEANS DIMINISH! BWAHAHAHA

Hehehe yea realy where they are???
lol

 

[quixotecoyote]

I like the idea, but it could be simplified.

Have a weight limit on the character.

Have a tabbed page in the iventory for each horse in a pack horse slot with a seperate weight limit for each page.


Of course its way down my wishlist as the current slowdown effect works fairly well as it is.

 

[jrawlings]

This thread is awfully similar to another one:

http://forums.taleworlds.com/viewtopic.php?t=5777

Any way the admins could merge the two?