Chocobo Raising Now Available! (08/21/2006)

**JoOeetheplatypuS** · 2006-09-19 23:44

Originally Posted by Krandor

YAY I CAN GET TO BOYAHDA 15 SECONDS FASTER NOW.

And all it cost was a few 100k and a month of my time, thanks SE.

Wait wait wait. You spent that much money on an optional activity where you could have easily spent as little as 10k just to get to boyahda faster? Krandor, I think you might need to cut down on the fafnir, seriously.

**Krandor** · 2006-09-19 23:47

I've camped fafnir like once this month, it was a joke.

On a whole though I am disappointed with how chocos are turning out. Watching the same CSs every single day for a 4 weeks to end up with something shittier then the standard rental chocos isn't my idea of fun.

Yadda Yadda Yadda cute etc. It was cute the 1st time, but after doing "Compete With Others" #20 it lost it's magic.

**JoOeetheplatypuS** · 2006-09-19 23:57

Originally Posted by Krandor

I've camped fafnir like once this month, it was a joke.

On a whole though I am disappointed with how chocos are turning out. Watching the same CSs every single day for a 4 weeks to end up with something shittier then the standard rental chocos isn't my idea of fun.

Yadda Yadda Yadda cute etc. It was cute the 1st time, but after doing "Compete With Others" #20 it lost it's magic.

Well I'm assuming that once we know how to raise them well we wont have to check every day.

**Krandor** · 2006-09-19 23:59

I'm gonna wait til someone actually figures out a decent reason to raise chocos other then getting to Boyahda faster (maybe the choco abilities will be useful, though I doubt it) before I invest more time or gil into the retards.

**Lordwafik** · 2006-09-19 23:59

Originally Posted by Daemonxel

I still have a yellow one....I want to retire mine already.

lol me too. I have a white tipped chocobo , hasnt grown yet, but i know it'll turn yellow. If it's yellow it's gonna be retired right away.

I didnt raise this thing for nothing, OR DID I!!!

I can see it being useful for certain things, for example OP'ing to somewhere and chocoing to Jeuno or Teleport Altep > Rabao, but areas like Valley of Sorrows, or Xarcabard/Ulegard were the big reason I wanted a chocobo, to explore zones better where we couldnt previously. I wanted to do ENM faster by chocobo'ing up the mountain, or other similar things, but we're limited already. Meh.

**Lordwafik** · 2006-09-20 00:19

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6...owtrashbu8.jpg

Gave up.

I chose "I'm sorry".

Xavier · 2006-09-20 00:36

The coolest aspect of them to me was having a chocobo that wasn't yellow, making them unique looking.

I got that on Xavier, the blue chocobo is cool. Yin however got a yellow chocobo, which greatly angered him and in a fit of rage he slaughtered everyone in the stables.

**JoOeetheplatypuS** · 2006-09-20 00:40

Originally Posted by Xavier

The coolest aspect of them to me was having a chocobo that wasn't yellow, making them unique looking.

I got that on Xavier, the blue chocobo is cool. Yin however got a yellow chocobo, which greatly angered him and in a fit of rage he slaughtered everyone in the stables.

The yellow chocos dont look the same as normal chocos.

**Lordender** · 2006-09-20 00:40

The only thing that is going to save chocobo raising is if by some far fetched chance that them being used to a weather type will allow you to call them in that area or theres some secret that comes out when you breed them otherwise its a big stupid cluster fuck. I don't give a fuck about getting to dragons aery faster. I hope i am wrong but right now i think its NPC all over again but with a month timesink.

**Tahngarthor** · 2006-09-20 00:46

Save it? it hasnt failed. were you expecting to ride in a dungeon or something? you cant even do that in wow. (of course, people in wow sell their souls for rare mounts that are no better than the standard lv 60 ones but just look cooler...) You may not be able to ride in zones that you couldn't before, but you can hop on from anywhere in an area instead of just from cities or mea/dem/holla- which does have its uses, particularly if you are on a lower level job.

Plus, you dont know that the yellow chocobo you breed cant produce something else if you breed it.... so it's kind of foolish to throw the time spent away...

Anyway if you build yourself up for a miracle, you're going to be dissapointed.

**Lordender** · 2006-09-20 00:49

thing fails so hard even if i'm on a newb job i could walk through sea at whatever crag i'm near and get to the safehold then change into a job to go wherever ;x

**Devek** · 2006-09-20 00:49

I got ripped off.. yellow chocobo.

It had level 3 strength and endurance.. so its not some stat thing that decides it. Its probably predetermined with your egg.

Makes sense I guess... if two black parents feed their kid nothing but rice it won't make the kid asian.

Just gonna find two people who have black chocobos and get chococards from them and make myself a cool looking chocobo.

Anyone tried breeding yet? I don't know a single person that has a black choco and only two that have blue so I am kind of sol.

**Iresire** · 2006-09-20 00:50

I imagine that the main benefit of chocobo raising is to use them in chocobo racing. From what I understood, letting us be able to summon the chocobos as personal mounts was something that S-E decided to do at the last minute because everyone was a bit disgrunlted that they could not summon their chocobo.

Also, the stat Receptivity doesn't seem to make much sense at all. Except for the care plans that strictly raise those, there doesn't seem to be any particular reason for a chocobo to be able to communicate with other chocobos. The only other thing it could be used for is matchmaking.

Like some of you, I'm extremely disappointed that my chocobo turned up to be a plain jane yellow chocobo. I'm just taking advantage of this fact so that I can be a better trainer in the future--namely in getting the stories and seeing the various effects of the care plans.

**miokomioko** · 2006-09-20 01:08

Mine is brown(yellow), ugly, and stupid.

Strength: Poor
Endurance: Poor
Discernment: Substandard
Receptivity: Substandard

Personality: Sensitive
Weather: N/A
Abilities: N/A

It won a race against Best, the black chocobo though. Although it continues to be a whiny bitch and sit there, irritated, because it's bored.

**Ferine** · 2006-09-20 01:55

hrm i find this odd. because didn't somone go dat mining. and find out that there are 8 levels of chocobo stats. Poor, substandard, A bit defficient, Normal, something, excelent, something, First class.

Well if at level 3 (from what i've read on here) peoples chocobo's are goin 75% speed of a rental chocobo. then at level 4 that would be what 100%. there is still 4 levels out there...

4 more levles above normal...

if we can asume each increases 25% speed.

Having first class means. hrm 100 + 4*25% =... oh right 200%

Hrm could it be posible that if we work at it we can have a chocobo taht goes 2wice as fast as a rental chocobo. Nah. just because it sucks right now we gotta condone it. ZOMG mines yellow BOH FREEKING HO. there is alot you can still do wtih the chocobo's. Think when lowby leveling, god how often do you run die going to camp in yhotor. or how bout when your party disbands. now you can pop up your chocobo and run out of there and not get hurt.

There is alot of things that chocobos will be usefull for. so don't go giving up right now. ANyone who expected their chocobo to be fully upgraded and better then rentals were insane. i swear it.

Ok well i'm not going to rant anymore i'm just going to sign out with this.

Give choco's a chance people.

Ferine

**Machazareel** · 2006-09-20 01:58

FUCKING YELLOW CHOCOBO!

I'm gonna sell this thing to KFC o<

**Dezzimal** · 2006-09-20 02:02

imo...1 month per chocobo is just way too much time invested vs. reward. I'd rather spend all my time in sea than attempt another blue/black choco and get the yellow shaft.

**miokomioko** · 2006-09-20 02:04

I highly doubt a player-raised Chocobo can outrun a rental Chocobo. If you ask the Chocobo 'FAQ' NPC next to the breeding NPC, he mentions that rental Chocobos are bred with Strength as a priority. That's a huge hint, to me, that Rental chocobos have maxed out Strength.

SE tries their darnedest to keep you paying those random NPC fees to help remove that gil from circulation. (airships/chocobos/limbus/et cetera. Although, ToAU warp-taru killed the Airship business, but 200gil/ride is nothing compared to 1000~5000gil Mea-Chocobo or 50,000gil Cosmo-Cleanse, lolMineShaft soloENM60 entrance fee...)

**DnightX** · 2006-09-20 02:55

I'm retiring mine. Its yellow and its sick, so I can't use him .

**Tahngarthor** · 2006-09-20 03:03

You guys really should have known going into this that the colored chocobos were going to be rare, I don't get why you're crying that you didn't get one. There is/was supposed to be more to the whole thing than just maybe sitting on a chocobo that isn't yellow.

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