Chocobo Raising

[Julian]

I have a sense for knowing when the pol website gets updated :x

Chocobo Raising(06/01/2006)

The FINAL FANTASY XI development team has finally addressed everyone’s cries for a system to raise their own personal chocobos. As announced at the FINAL FANTASY XI Fan Festival 2006 in Santa Monica, this new feature will be introduced in the next version update!

Raising Your Chocobo
[Basic Concept]
Think of chocobo raising as an upgraded version of gardening. You can raise a chocobo by taking care of it for a minimal amount of time each day over a span of roughly 1-3 months, so even players with little time can enjoy this feature. Your chocobo may come in handy when it is fully grown!

[Chocobo Eggs]
Your first step is to get hold of a chocobo egg. Each egg is encoded with its own specific genetic information, and some players may come across an extremely rare variety…

[Caring For Your Chocobo]
You must work together with the chocobo stable employees in order to properly care for your chocobo. Feeding your chocobo and spending a bit of time with it each day will gradually build trust. You will be amazed at how your chocobo grows!

Chocobo Variety
Chocobos differ based on their color and type…and possibly more. Naming will be handled in the same way that dragoons and puppetmasters select their wyvern or automaton’s name, but there will be more options than ever before!

Matchmaking
Match up your chocobo with your friend’s chocobo and see what happens. If the match is right, you could end up with a new baby chocobo!

Scores of other exciting features are scheduled to be added in the next version update, so keep checking the main site for more information in the next few days!

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/060601.html

The naming part disappoints me. So who wants to bet what type of names we'll have this time? I'm thinking either German or Spanish.

[Janice]

Let's hope these eggs are sellable and that they drop in assault.

[Correction]

The FINAL FANTASY XI development team has finally addressed everyone’s cries for a






system to raise their own personal chocobos. As announced at the FINAL FANTASY XI Fan Festival 2006 in Santa Monica, this new feature will be introduced in the next version update!

[Gilanth]

FFXI development team 1: How do we get them to Jeuno its empty!

FFXi dev team 2: Chocobo raising its what the fans want!!!

[Xiona]

Let's hope these eggs are sellable and that they drop in assault.

lets hope the eggs arent fuckin sellable, thats all we'd need is more items that dont require any effort to obtain lol

[Janice]

Well all you guys do is complain about everything in FFXI but never crying about it, so.....

START CRYING

lets hope the eggs arent fuckin sellable, thats all we'd need is more items that dont require any effort to obtain lol

And by sellable I mean I can sell them at outrageous prices. Wamp Cacoons were fun to sell for a mil each.

[Xiona]

oh i got what you meant lol

id rather actually work for the eggs than just needing a big bank account thats all.

ya ffxi has its problems but the system obviously works. its like american politics, if you break down all its pieces its completely fucked. but in its chaos and retardation as a whole its molded itself into a smoothly ran machine.

[TomodachiF]

No truer words than Zealots @@

[BRP]

This is fucking awesome.

If you can't get over it, just quit already.

Bitching about all level content is gay, despite this being an end-game forum.

[Koga]

"Alright team, here's the situation. We've got gil sellers everywhere, regular players losing interest left and right, GMs who don't know or even give a fuck what they're doing, massive hacking and botting, and an overall decline in players from the middle of last year. End game is a crowded mess, and Chains of Promathia offered nothing of realistic value considering the effort we made them all put in. What do we do?"

"We could let them raise chocobos. You know, instead of actually addressing any problems."

"You're a dangerous man, Jenkins, I like how you think."

Win.
Anyone can make a chocobo a turbo-choco with the click of a mouse button and FleeTool.

[Kraazo]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...zo/choco01.jpg

[Thaesus]

I hope the rare eggs are a drop from Vrtra.

[Not Kuno]

Too bad we can't ride them whenever we want. That would be better.

[rahskala]

This is a fantastic addition to the game. I can't wait to...wait a second, ONE TO THREE MONTHS? What the fuck? It seems as though they've moved beyond the idea of a "time sink" and gone straight for a "money sink".

What if you can't log on to feed your chocobo for a few days in the second week of month #3? Does all that time get flushed down the drain?

[Brennon]

I think this sounds kind of neat

You've got to admit that chocobo raising > fish ranking.

[Siatdiat]

You've got to admit that chocobo raising > stabbing yourself in the face.

I agree.

[Xiona]

your chocobo dies, you then have to clean up the corpse (which SE turned into a system like fishing where you sweep a broom around and have to face fatigue), then after you go to court for negligence... you can buy a new egg but need to inform everyone raising eggs manually with tells how you could possibly be a repeat choc-a-cide offender as per Jaime's Law.

im assuming itd be like gardening, your plant dies so maybe your affinity with the choco resets to like lv1 or something

[Not Kuno]

If you starve your Chocobo the next time you go to see it it'll hit you in the head with a 2x4 and eat you.

[Xiona]

SAVINGS ROLL

edit: my bad i missread that to 2die4 haha

[Lockecole]

Feels kinda gimicky...Seriously gonna have to see more before I get my hopes up. I'm expecting this next update to blow me away, because seriously ToAU is SOOO fucking empty right now, after capping merits and killing Cerberus for the 10th time, I finally realize just how little was added in this expansion.