While strolling around, I came up with the idea of having to obtain your own mount and packer from the wild. Instead of paying for one, you have to go out and grasp it yourself. Lets say, you come straight off the mainland, you can go get a basic level 50 mektoub, and that would have a certain ammount of storage. As you progress through the levels, lets say you are now a level 150 in melee, you could go get a level 200 mektoub for use as a mount or packer, but they also have more hp and carrying space, as it is a higher level. (I say higher HP as it is a pain when you are trekking with them, and they die. Please tell me what you think..
