Transport

I reckon in the next Arcanum there should be new types of transport e.g. Buses, Cars etc. And you should be able to control these means manually like say - you buy a horse from a stable in tarrant (if it is included in the next game) and ride it around the city and likewise for the car.

 

Id shit myself! :lol:

 

you know, I think Arcanum 2: Vice City sounds better, mainly cause I think driving around in a lowered Model T while shooting at cops out the rear window would be fun. but seriously, I don't there should truly be cars. It's a funny thought, but horses? sure, griffins? magic only... Dragons? um... maybe... I think horses, and maybe some sort of tech monster like a automaton mount. ya know? not actual cars and motorcycles. Maybe a flying machine, but nothing other than that.

 

Hey I know what techies can use for transportation Ore golems! :lol:

 

Techies riding ore golems - lol. I think arcanum 2 should have also have the trains sytem from the first game but this time the screen shouldn't fade to black and then you "appear" in the town. You should be able to see the journey and be able to walk around the train, and when people fall asleep (like they usually do on trains :/ ) you could be able to loot their bags and steal money, itmes etc.

But then you would have to try and evade the security ogre's on the train carriges. Also, when the ogre guards come along to see your tickets (Ugh, tickest pleze ) u should be alble to kill them and steal the ticket money. :lol:

 

About the train idea: The train could chrash sometimes, or be robbet while you where inside. And the creatures could be as dog, they are fighting too. and you have som waggon the creatures was dragging!! MAYBE...

 

Yeh, that would be cool ralph, if you were on the train and then it crashed. Everyone dies and you could loot EVERYTHING !

But I also think that tech characters should be able to buy (or steal ) motorbikes and normal bikes. As for magick characters they should be able to conjure Magick Flying Carpets - That would be cool. Zapping people with disentegrate spells and speeding away on your magick carpet.
- MAGICK DRIVE BY'S ! - :lol:

Also, the best idea yet... Tech characters should be able to make their own transport (Cars, Motorbikes, Bikes, Boats, Flying Machines etc.)
That would be such an amazing site ! All you see is hundreds of weird looking cars and bikes driving around and these "things" flying all over the place ! :lol:

Dark Elf, as for your idea of turning on/off the "Train Journey" option is true in a certain point of view, but I mean each time you ride a train something different happens every time. So, I guess it would get tedious after a while but the aspect of robbing people and hijacking trains sounds very exiteing. Only if Troika did include this aspect of the game, it would be great! :thumbup:

Oh yeh - 1 more thing, when is Arcanum 2 going to be released or has it even been announced yet ?

 

The train idea is really good. The accidents and robberies should be pretty rare though. That opens up possibilities for so many more quests too. I think Techies should be able to make or buy automobiles. Horses should be available to all. Perhaps Unicorns for magick types... some sort of flying vehicle for techies. I think the teleport spell should only transport somebody around a particular city, or even just across a room. Oh and the train thing would work with blimbs and ships too. I dont imagine blimbs would be hijacked, but I can certainly see pirates attacking a cruiseliner... The magic carpet idea is also nice. Ofcourse you shouldnt have to own automobiles and horses to get around, there should be 'taxis' you can pay to use. Building them or buying them on your own would allow you to take them into the wild or perhaps sell them for profit.

 

I can't believe noone has mentioned (or maybe I just missed it) the robotic horses shown in one of the end-game slides for Arcanum. The first time I saw the robot horse I was like, "Omfg teh pwn!"

Yeah, something like that :/

 

Robotic Horses? I dont recall seeing any robotic horses..unless you mean what is otherwise known as a 'car'.

 

What ? What robotic horses ? :/

 

Ah yes! I saw the picture for that last night on "Dimensions of Arcanum". What ending is that though? In all my travels I've never seen it.

 

I'm not sure, but I think if you dig around in your Arcanum directory you'll stumble onto the end-game slides folder. You'll find it in there.

 

Yeah, I've seen it before. Where's Mr.Frodo, Samwise Gamgee?

 

He's invisible. 8)

 

Well, for those in favour of cars, there's a rather interesting topic about it in the Great Discussion forum with nice pics.