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Ryzom has the best riding of any MMO I have seen. Keep your mount well fed, and it is a blast to ride around Atys with a beer in one hand and good music on the built-in MP3 player 
The riding is totally free-form, dismount anywhere, and is the most realisitc and fun I've ever seen, by far. 
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
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what level is the req in order to get a mount?
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currentlyplaying:
age of conan
Mounts cost money, that is all. Anyone can get one.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
How much money and from where?
Each major city has a stable, and you can buy mounts and packers at these stables (limit is 1 mount and 3 packers). You also buy food for them from the stable's vendor. The price ranges from around 120K to 550K dappers, the more expensive ones have better hitpoints and survivability. If you take the bottom price one out, it will probably get killed.
It is ok to keep a low health packer in the stable, since they can't get attacked. This gives you storage at the town/city where there is a stable.
Mounts can be ridden anywhere in the world, and you can dismount anyplace ... totally freeform travel. They are faster than the predators, so you can just run right by the Gingos, and they will get one or two hits in before you leave them behind. However, if your mount/packer runs out of food, they can't run and will be killed. Once they die, they cannot be resurrected, and any stuff you had on them will have to be retrieved by going back to the corpse and looting it.
It is great fun to take your mount and packer out on an expedition to dig at some remote spot
You can logout at that spot, and the pets will be there when you log back in.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
A few additions/corrections to Olepi's information:
- Mounts and packers only gain hunger when running; not when walking, standing still, or being in the stable.
- Most of the time when you're mounted, creatures will prefer to attack you. Watch out for Area Effect damage abilities, though, like a Gingo's blinding dust kick-up. Direct attacks on packers that are less than the best are not out of the question.
- Named (semi-boss) carnivorous creatures can and quite possibly will kill your mount/packers whether you're nearby or not. Know where they roam and how that relates to where you park your mektoubs (mount and packers).
- Your unstabled mektoubs disappear when you log out. They reappear when you log in, at the same place they were when you logged out. So they can't be harmed while you're not online.
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on August 13, 2008.
Another good thing about mounts is that there is a lot of possibility for mounted races - which are held quite often in the deserts and northern matis
This includes betting on participants aswell 
There are different kinds of mounts both color bulk and statswise - the sturdier ones cost a bit more.
At the releaseof the game a lot more ridable mobs have been announced - not just the ordinary mecktoub mounts that look like elephants that we have ig (another one and yet another one ) but also
arma mounts
bodoc mounts (someone please provide a pic)
and even exotic underwater Sagass mounts
In fact there are quite a few animals ig that could serve as mounts and there have even been rumours about a new skill of taming the animals being in the works...
Well, yeah, at release they said it´d be possible.
In Alpha there´ve beend Bodoc Mounts (saw a screeny but lost it) and today we´re quite OK with "only" the Mektoubs, but it´d surely be a bit of "change of scenerey" to ride somethign else.
Like I´m always saying, I wanna ride my Ocyx, chopper style!!
CU
SaM
Do you dare to adapt?
Mounted combat on a Gnoof!
Wow, that seems like a lot of money. How long did that take to save?
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currentlyplaying:
age of conan
The majority of my friends recieved a mount an apartment and a full set of gear once they joined a guild.
Get into a nice guild and you wont have to worry about the cost.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
It is actually not that much. My highest level is 115, and I already have a mount and 3 high-cost packers. Money is not really that much of an issue. You can sell all the mats you dig and loot from mobs, and make good money.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Ya its not that much dapper. I had three packers around the time I got my skills around 40 my crafting is still below 30 though. So its not to hard. You just got to save up.
Playing Fallen Earth.
Screenshots of bodoc mounts from beta 2001: 1, 2
They look a bit ridiculous IMO. Would rather have a gubani. ^_^
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on August 13, 2008.
You can make 100,000 or more dappers just on the newb island. Getting dappers is not hard at all, which is one of the things I like about Ryzom. Being a wholly player crafted economy cuts the goldsellers out completely.
Also, I'm hoping that the new devs do add the things Nevrax never got around to, like the underwater cities and such ( and the ability to actually swim underwater:P ) so that underwater mounts would be viable.
Ah and here i also found a Messab mount from the artworks... Hmm looks like they were thinking of many different mounts at first .
Would be great to see any kind of ne mount implmented though
even the silly one ;P
Messab Mount
I would love for them to impliment some new mounts. The meks are cool but can't go wrong with a bit of variety
*crosses his fingers and toes for Ocyx mount*
Love the Ocyx think they are one of the best looking mobs in the game... and they breathe fire!
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For thos of you who don't know - this is what an Ocyx - looks like. A shell encased fire-breating agile predator