Changes to Chocobo Digging and Gardening (07/03/06)

[MisterBob]

How do you drive RMT out of a zone on a chocobo? The only way to make them leave would be to dig, which would result in making money in the exact same way as if you had ignored the RMT.

[Darus Grey]

Because its a shared pool? Competing with them means I ain't getting much, its a mutal destruction scenario, making it barely profitable for myself, makes it the same for them. Until they eventually get the idea and leave, leaving the zone to you alone for a small window of time

[Kaylia]

Does it matter where you dig or it can be anywhere in the zone?

[Russta]

Yay

[Ayn]

The only problem I see with the change is that now GS just need to switch out accounts after fatigue. It's the same thing that happened with fishing.

Bingo.

[MisterBob]

The only problem I see with the change is that now GS just need to switch out accounts after fatigue. It's the same thing that happened with fishing.

Bingo.

Takes 3-4 months to level Choco digging to a level where you can even *think* about making enough money to make it worthwhile.

[genome]

I like the change, it's a step in the right direction.

Does it matter where you dig or it can be anywhere in the zone?

Anywhere.

[genome]

The only problem I see with the change is that now GS just need to switch out accounts after fatigue. It's the same thing that happened with fishing.

Bingo.

Takes 3-4 months to level Choco digging to a level where you can even *think* about making enough money to make it worthwhile.

It would take that long for a normal player, but gilsellers had bots that would do this 24/7 (rank1, lvl 21, no sub, chocobo trainer title, grab a chocobo and repeat the same route over and over). And actually so did a few 'normal' players.
If fatigue prevents them from leveling up as fast, then it might be a solution (and if they start edbanning those accounts too...)

[Darus Grey]

If they don't change the skillup rate, but significantly shorten the time you can dig, its gonna be a major setback to how fast you can gain skill.

I was digging for 2-3 hours on a regular basis for about a year before I finally hit A10, if its like fishing where you can only fish for about 2hours before becomming fully fatigued...well, its gonna be a longgg time before you get to any decent skill.

If you have any interest in digging, I'd seriously recommend trying to spam-out the first 1-2 levels before the patch ^^

[shihei]

fucking fatigue i knew it...GFG SE
they try to balance shit out too much
hopefully in next update they will also do somthing else completely retarded like make blm dmg depend on how far you are from mobs, but why stop there give the blm fatigue as well

[Septimus]

I'm sure raising chocobo's is going to be a lot of experimentation to get the right combination of foods and stuff. So what happens to the failed experiments? How do I discard my rejects? Can I pluck them and cook them?

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72

This came to mind.

[Sudai]

Only problem with that chart is that they got the green choco and the normal colored choco mixed up >.>

[Not Kuno]

Looks cool. This is kinda to be expected from the other announcement, I dunno why they said it again.

[Septimus]

Looks cool. This is kinda to be expected from the other announcement, I dunno why they said it again.

If they only showed this image, the update would have still been worth it.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics.../601/601_2.jpg

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!!!!

If you don't want to pick that baby Chocobo up and give it a big yet gentle hug so as not to crush its tiny adorable bones, there is something seriously wrong with you.

[aurik]

Fun fact, there's 3 or 4 24/7 chocobo dig bots on my server that I know of that have been operating for at least 11 months. Probably more that I don't know of and probably in operation for longer.

I'm glad that SE is finally "doing" something about it, but it yet to be seen if what they do is effective.

[Demosthenes]

fucking fatigue i knew it...GFG SE
they try to balance shit out too much
hopefully in next update they will also do somthing else completely retarded like make blm dmg depend on how far you are from mobs, but why stop there give the blm fatigue as well

sounds like pussy whinning to me

[Elcura]

Someone's sad about their bot being fucked over =P

[Elesirdur]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/031027.jpg

This came to mind.

As soon as I heard about chocobo raising before FanFest this was the first thing that popped into my head.

[shihei]

fucking fatigue i knew it...GFG SE
they try to balance shit out too much
hopefully in next update they will also do somthing else completely retarded like make blm dmg depend on how far you are from mobs, but why stop there give the blm fatigue as well

sounds like pussy whinning to me

sounds like a just woke up and shouldnt of made the post so dumbass like you can quote me

HEY go ask lvl 100 fishers how much they enjoy fishing after the fatigue patch there

And those choco digging bots everyone talks about is gillsellers who run shifts 24/7. cmon gillsellers been around awhile, don't you think they'd jump in on the
most profitable craft in the game.
I guess it depends on whow the fatigue is implemented, if you can't dig nothing up after 1 run, it will be whack

[Darus Grey]

HEY go ask lvl 100 fishers how much they enjoy fishing after the fatigue patch there

Well, since you asked...

The fishing fatigue patch made fishing better...

Getting 2x the money for 6x less work? Hell yeah.

I'm also an A10 digger, and am looking forward to this patch.

This change can ONLY MAKE A HORRIBLE SITUATION BETTER.

Your flat out retarded if you think this is somehow gonna make it worse.