Spirit Peco (Knight Sprites Suggestion)
I've played Knights many times in the past, though HeRO has been my first experience with a Lord Knight in a low-rate server, and I don't regret it yet.
Unfortunately, there has been a single, glaring issue with my life as a Lord Knight: Customization, and more specifically, palette customization.
The Lord Knight has a beautiful sprite, it's one of my favorites, and with some colors it can match a variety of headgears and wings with wonderful results; however, this is cruelly obscured by the Peco Peco, which grants both of the Swordsman's advanced classes a crucial bonus to base speed and size damage percentages.
This is only worsened by HeRO's selection of character dyes, which while appreciable at over 100 separate color schemes, is unfortunately ill-suited to the mounted classes. Many color schemes that work well with Knights and Crusaders find themselves either disgustingly mis-shaded, eye-stingingly arranged, or outright missing in their own right and leaving you wearing a saddled black blob.
However, in a decade of private servers, I have seen a solution to this problem. Asking you to hand-fix dozens upon dozens of Knight, Crusader, Lord Knight and Paladin sprites is a time sink at best and a slog of misspent resources at worst, so instead, why not allow players to use whichever of the mounted or unmounted sprite sets they preferred?
With this idea in mind, I introduce The Spirit Peco, an idea from a long-dead midrate server I played on countless years ago.
The Spirit Peco was a short quest that rewarded the Swordsman advanced classes with an emblem, that when used would grant an unmounted Swordsman advanced class the "Riding" effect until they died, at which point it could freely be reused. The key difference, however, was that even though they were considered 'mounted' for all game purposes, they continued to use the unmounted knight sprites.
This allowed players on that server to have control over their mounted classes aesthetics without the hassle of painstakingly adjusting their wide arrange of palettes or introducing custom mounts. Notably, however, this emblem came with the restriction that it could not be used during WoE, forcing mounted players to always have the silhouette of their mounted or unmounted skillset, which would allow them to be accurately identified and targeted in GvG.
The quest itself was a small, simple affair; players simply had to locate an NPC in the deserts of Morroc, who was the ghost of a Knight (And who took on the appearance of a notable server member, a donator I believe) who asked the prospective mountless players to collect 250 Peco Peco Feathers and pay 20,000z to receive the Emblem.
Summary
-Introduce an Item or NPC that allows mounted classes to be considered "Riding" without altering their sprite.
-Disable this effect in WoE.
-Possibly include a brief quest to access this effect.
Thank you for taking the time to look over my suggestion, I hope it's deemed worthwhile and easily implementable.
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