Im an archer atm mostly, I wear padded leather, got longbow and iron mace or niawodaomowaodao (big 1h knife) and when im in a fight, I DONT NEED HELP: Over half my deaths cause by teammates with 2h/polearm get excited and club me: This seems to happen more since patch, for some reason, but FF HORSE BUMP:
Im a peasant, I carry a bow, I walk about like the lowly scum I am: If you lordship is riding and hits me, tbh, THATS MY FAULT: Im a peon, your a knight, I wouldnt expect knights gave a shit IRL, and why would they now, tbh, I wouldnt either: Stop and swerve, and get hit by enemy persuit, to save a peasant who walked into the road, or ride on over them and save yourself = ITS JUST A PEASANT. When I wanna cross the road, I look both ways, friendly/enemy cav coming, no difference, just stay out of their way, keep your head down, let them do their thing: They arent really a danger if your aware.
NOW: Spawn trample me, or run me over when theres no danger around or I moved for you, but you "aim" for me and run me down, thats fine: but you had better kill me, or you are gonna find that your horse grows bodkins from its ass.
sum up: I get hit by a car cause I ran into the highway, my fault. I let you pass and you still gimme a bump, still my fault, but your gonna catch an arrow. No hard feelings Pony Clubbers, I dont expect any different when I ride.
The only thing about horse bumping, FF or otherwise is that it seems it could use a slight toning down. Not a full blown nerf, but it shouldn't 1-shot someone, peasant/armor or not, regardless of horse. Now cav might say "NO WE LYK IT" but think about it, even if it only did 50% damage at max, you're still going to get alot of trample kills as people fight since they'll be wounded. 1 shotted from 100% hp from a horse, both friendly and hostile is a bit much.
Just my opinion though, and as such it'll probably be discarded.
I dunno, if a horse ran you down IRL, I dont think you would get up too quick.....remember, we just have "DEAD", not "Really badly broken leg, so he can fight from sitting position" etc, so "unable to fight properly" has to be "dead". I think getting run over by a horse and rider both in armour would stop most people from fighting on.....
I read your sig btw Gorath, and lemme say, PERSONALLY as an archer, I've never been happier: Half the enemy have no armour on! PEW PEW BITCHES!