IMO fast travel are quite boring. All you see are repeat screen shots of monsters,masks,etc. I think to replace the fast travel is to get a unique shout that calls Odahviing not to fight but to assist you on your long travelings. You would soon be in control, of where you want to go, and after you give a command to drop you off he then leaves and then your off.

An addition if you fly over a group of bandits you can give him a command to attack, while you're on him. You do have a choice to get off and fight he still still be there until you dismiss him.

Anyone else thinks this would be a great addition for skyrim or maybe in the next game?

It would be awesome but it would takes lots of time to make it work right. DLC maybe?

Youre asking for dragon mounts when they wont even implement mounted horse combat? No they wont add it in this game even in DLC

If fast travel is so boring you could you know, just travel.

Nope, it probably would take alot of re writing as well? And not to mention all the extra lag that comes with it. It would be awesome yes but it isn't going to happen.

Calling fast travel boring is redundant. As for mounts, I wouldn't say it's out of the question for DLC, but my bet is on modders. They made Akatosh mounts for Oblivion, I'm sure they can do the same for Skyrim. Hope you have a PC! Personally, I hope that Bethesda does something more interesting with the DLC.

How do you assume that it will increase the lag? If you have a good gaming PC with a good cooling system then lag wouldn't be an issue for you. A lot of rewriting? I'm sorry but this is a PAID game where people pay a lot of money for games like this so I'm not overly sympathetic over the issue of having gamesas script writers having to rewrite a lot of the scripts, including creating new ones. That is what they are getting paid to do. If this game was free maybe, but this is a paid game.

As far as using horses in battle, and wielding weapons... why hasn't this been implicated yet? Sounds like a good idea.

Dragon Mounts would be cool, but I don't see anything wrong with Map Travel (or why one shouldn't even with dragon mounts).

SaidenStorm will likely have Dragon mounts at some point, or someone else will...

He did it for Oblivion back then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHmanB-5FIg