First of, all you who have a PC with lots of memory, and are a draggie, fly up over Dalimond and turn your view distnace to max and see what kind of detail this game could make when the devs actually get it optomized.
One thing is missing from the game I would absolutely love to see... Dragon Riding!
The potential of doubling the subscription base is amazing with this feature!
Pern fans from abound would get their arses up and subscribe, just to play a draggie rider or a draggie.
THe role-play of Dragon's and their Riders would be awsome! I can imagine some serious bonds being formed between some characters, if anyone ever read Eragon (haven't read anything else with dragon riding yet) you know what I mean!
Even better, a Dragon Rider school can be designed with some Air-to-Ground attack (they should all be weak though) for the rider.
And Dragons who get their um... (lacks a better term) mount skills should be able to tech themselves up with some awsome battle armor (not cheap scales, actual armor plating, of course there should be a penalty for such a thing.
Nowa system (I'm on lunch and have a few minutes left)
Been pondering a possible system for this, it involves a dragon's cargo capacity.
A dragon and its rider should combine used capacity values, because the said drake can ONLY carry its capacity. Upgrades can be made by making a *smacks hte RPers* saddle (like cargo armor).
The dragon is the driver, its in COMPLETE control of where it flies (forcing RP cooperation). The rider has the ability to cast minor spells and most of all use ranges weapons!
This will function like an F-15! A gunner and a pilot!
Now if the dragon dies, and the rider lives, the rider will simply fall off the dragon (obvious). However, a random delay can be thrown in to allow out the (it hink fun) effect of coming to reailise the dragon is going down.
Also, and Eject button!!
Making it work may be a problem, but I can see a lot of new subscribers out of this, of course I would have a blast having Swythe fly others around (and RP like he's doing crazy airs stunts).
Permiisions to mount a dragon can easily be thought out... A player requests to ride the dragon targeted with a simple right click. The dragon just clicks yes or no, and thats it!