Mounts fleeing is a good idea in its own but it needs to stop after the fight, the fact i can stand there while my mount continues to run in circles for 20 minutes after a fight is super annoying, plus when in combat they sometimes teleport right beside you even when on 30 meter follow, sometimes getting your stuck in them, and once you try to get away the mount will flee in a circle so fast and so close to the fight that it actually gets in the way more often then not, also sometimes forcing you to remount to ride him out of the middle of a fight 
Mount should flee only for 10/15 seconds and then stop if not taking damage or something to stop them fleeing until mounted
Just a little QOL to fix a headache for folks
Them being stuck on flee that long may a bug you are experiencing. I have not had that issue.
Unless you are talking about them running in circles when something is agroed on them, then yeah it becomes a keystone cop/benny hill chase of me trying to hit npc, which is chasing my horse in a circle, all the while my follower is jumping around doing 1st ax attacks and whiffing.
Oh ya they’ll stay on fleeing in a circle long after the fight is done, I’ve stood there and just watched for a good five minutes. Doesn’t end until i mount then or order them to guard and follow again.
The fleeing in a circle during a fight is bloody annoying as not once has it actually helped me, every time when you try to angle your self away from him in the fight or anything the mount seems to “flee” just perfectly into you to mess up the fight on your end
If mounts can’t defend themselves i think Npcs should just leave riderless mounts alone competently until mounted as well
Hell I’ve had npcs run past me to agro on my rhino, whaaaat the hell lol
They need to give us a way to command the mount like a thrall, or at least using the thrall stop command should stop the horse to, that way you tell thrall to attack again and horse stays put
This is exactly one of the greatest reasons we need a whistle. It is best if mounts follows in 30 meters distance even for combat reasons, even for the safety of the mount. Yet we need to be able to craft a whistle so we can call it close to us when it’s needed. It would be convenient for too many reasons. The last and closing is the mount or open inventory option. On Playstation I press the square button to mount. I would like to have a choise when I press the square button simply, mount or open inventory and choose what I want to do. We have this choise by pressing continuously the square button but it is confusing. Because you can interact to the inventory of thralls and pets with simple press and to mount with continuous. It would be more logical and less frustrating to interact the same way with horses too. Just in horses after you interact to have a wheel of choise mount or inventory 
. Too many times I mounted my horse when I only wanted to open the inventory.
In one of my other posts i suggested they add maybe saddle bags or a inventory point on all saddles that you just look at click x on, would make it way faster to use mounts and less of a headache
I’m always on 30 meters follow for mount and still have the mount teleporting into the middle of combat directly behind me……then he flees and then he messes up the fight, bloody annoying, the whistle would be awesome, either an emote or maybe an actually inventory item whistle
I’ve read this saddle connection to another post on Playstation discussion. I would prefer to the mount it self and not a saddle. You can always farm with a mount and an elephant or a named bearer without having saddles, still most of the times we walk with mount saddled and a fighter so I can see your point, but when we begin the game we need our followers to carry the load. Maybe we don’t even have the materials to fix a saddle, especially on pvp that you can steal a horse from the very beginning of the game. There for whistles must be an item constructed from early on, or rng drop from particular npcs why not. Still we need them no matter how.
Ps. I love all your ideas you rock 
While I’ve never had the mount continue fleeing after combat (that sounds like a particularly annoying bug), I would say be careful what you wish for. The situation currently feels a little worse on testlive (compared to what I had previously, maybe not worse than what you are getting) - my horse sometimes doesn’t flee at all, he just stands there in the middle of combat, and sometimes now even shoves me out the way, getting between me and what I’m fighting. I think I’d rather have the Benny Hill chases, lol.
I’m definitely in full support of the whistle and/or saddle ideas. And some way to separate ‘mount’ and ‘open inventory’ would be great (even on PC, with all these extra keys available, it’s still the exact same problem as you guys have - press button to mount, hold button to open menu to open inventory…
We have that on PC, but you have to hold down the assigned key to get the wheel up, and sometimes I dont hold it long enough and still mount, so it is just as annoying.
@JJDancer , We interact to all the other things with a simple press, so it is very logical to make robot actions to horses too. When i start interact to my horse a lot of times i find my self doing the same action to my thrall. It is a bit confusing, but i can leave with that i guess 
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