Chocobo Racing 27/03/07

[BRP]

Hello Sept, is it painful to know me and you share the same view on this matter?

[FinalJustice]

ppl complain about the littlest thing :-\\

[Zilong]

I'm looking forward to this, my 8/7/3/1 Canter/Gallop green chocobo is gonna beat the shit out of everyone.

Unless someone on Sylph has an 8/8 second gen Canter/Gallop...

I wonder how much I can overcharges the dyes for if you get it from winning races and is not rare/ex...

[Alastaire]

Meh, guess I will give raising another chocobo a shot. Both of my other ones ended up Black, but I ignored them so their stats sucked. *ducks for cover*

[Lordender]

Summer, 2007: Player vs. player races, betting
Fall/Winter, 2007: New official races, practice races (player vs. player)
2008: Final official races


wow not finished fully until 2008 o.O

[Khamsin]

Summer, 2007: Player vs. player races, betting
Fall/Winter, 2007: New official races, practice races (player vs. player)
2008: Final official races


wow not finished fully until 2008 o.O

It'll be interesting to see what racing is like on Wednesday, before they add Player vs Player races, betting, private practice races, etc.

Wonder if they'll also add a Player vs NPC racing option at some point too.. though probably not until 2009, at this rate.

[Evelyn]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Either way, I'm looking forward to what this will be like. If it ends up being worthless, so be it, but I'll at least try it once or twice with one of my two black chocobos.

[Xavier]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Its called "Solo Racing", and will be identical to riding your chocobo anywhere else in the game, except without actually going anywhere.

[Metah]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Its called "Solo Racing", and will be identical to riding your chocobo anywhere else in the game, except without actually going anywhere.

You mean Time Trial?

[Evelyn]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Its called "Solo Racing", and will be identical to riding your chocobo anywhere else in the game, except without actually going anywhere.

You mean Time Trial?

- Types of Races
The following are the two types of races available at this time:

Official Race
By successfully completing the objectives of these "mission-style" races, more challenging races will be unlocked. Can you clear them all?

Free Run
Free runs are "practice" races that may be run at any time (for a small gil fee). By placing in these races, you will receive chocobucks that can be used to purchase items or participate in higher-level official races. Use these practice races to hone your skills and save up funds.

So I'd assume that you're racing against something.

[Gere]

Due to the fact that chocobo racing is completely new to FINAL FANTASY XI, much time has been necessary for development and testing. Because of this, we have determined that rather than delaying the release of the content, it is better to release portions of it at a time, thus allowing players to experience some of the features right away.

Translation: We're done with the development of Chocobo Racing. Actually, we finished the development of it 2 years ago; however, we are going to spread the release of new content out over the course of an entire year in the hopes of convincing anyone vaguely interested in Chocobo Racing to continue paying their $12.95/month.

"Ahead of scheduled release" is not a phrase that programmers understand.

[Metah]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Its called "Solo Racing", and will be identical to riding your chocobo anywhere else in the game, except without actually going anywhere.

You mean Time Trial?

- Types of Races
The following are the two types of races available at this time:

Official Race
By successfully completing the objectives of these "mission-style" races, more challenging races will be unlocked. Can you clear them all?

Free Run
Free runs are "practice" races that may be run at any time (for a small gil fee). By placing in these races, you will receive chocobucks that can be used to purchase items or participate in higher-level official races. Use these practice races to hone your skills and save up funds.

So I'd assume that you're racing against something.

A time trial is a race against time

[Khamsin]

I thought what we're getting tomorrow is the player vs. npc one? If not, who are we supposed to be racing against?

Its called "Solo Racing", and will be identical to riding your chocobo anywhere else in the game, except without actually going anywhere.

You mean Time Trial?

- Types of Races
The following are the two types of races available at this time:

Official Race
By successfully completing the objectives of these "mission-style" races, more challenging races will be unlocked. Can you clear them all?

Free Run
Free runs are "practice" races that may be run at any time (for a small gil fee). By placing in these races, you will receive chocobucks that can be used to purchase items or participate in higher-level official races. Use these practice races to hone your skills and save up funds.

So I'd assume that you're racing against something.

"Mission-style" races could be anything. It's too ambiguous.

For all we know, it could be like Assault and you have to run around pecking posts in different parts of the map before time runs out, and if you succeed, you win 10 chocobucks to trade in for a San d'Orian carrot.

[HAcoreRD]

Also, when people initially pick up ffxi and start playing, I dont think its any sims aspect of the game that helps them come to that conclusion. Its killing shit, and looking good while doing it. Did anyone buy ffxi b/c they thought it would be a simulation game?

I bought it because I wanted to spend a week straight at one NM and still be at 0/20, and even with TH4, still get no drop.

[BRP]

Am I the only one who is hoping for Diddy Kong racing style boss fights?

Go go Cactrot Rapido.

[Evelyn]

however, the free run refers to "placing". In horse racing, that means getting in the top 3 in a given race. So I'm extrapolating (could be wrong, but I hope not) that missions will have similar situations, where you're racing to get a certain placement againt npc riders.

[HAcoreRD]

Am I the only one who is hoping for Diddy Kong racing style boss fights?

Go go Cactrot Rapido.

How much better could the game be if you could fire ranged weapons while mounted on Chocobos, like Orcarina of time?

It'd be win, to a degree. Then we'd see Eagle Eye Shots off Chocobo back

[Miji]

Due to the fact that chocobo racing is completely new to FINAL FANTASY XI, much time has been necessary for development and testing. Because of this, we have determined that rather than delaying the release of the content, it is better to release portions of it at a time, thus allowing players to experience some of the features right away.

Translation: We're done with the development of Chocobo Racing. Actually, we finished the development of it 2 years ago; however, we are going to spread the release of new content out over the course of an entire year in the hopes of convincing anyone vaguely interested in Chocobo Racing to continue paying their $12.95/month.

I didn't realize people are still clinging to the "for your $12.95/month" reasons. I thought they made it clear that this was not the case when they started banning POS users monthly.

[Khamsin]

Due to the fact that chocobo racing is completely new to FINAL FANTASY XI, much time has been necessary for development and testing. Because of this, we have determined that rather than delaying the release of the content, it is better to release portions of it at a time, thus allowing players to experience some of the features right away.

Translation: We're done with the development of Chocobo Racing. Actually, we finished the development of it 2 years ago; however, we are going to spread the release of new content out over the course of an entire year in the hopes of convincing anyone vaguely interested in Chocobo Racing to continue paying their $12.95/month.

I didn't realize people are still clinging to the "for your $12.95/month" reasons. I thought they made it clear that this was not the case when they started banning POS users monthly.

They make more money when they buy new copies of FFXI and start a new account. If you get banned on the 15th and get a half-month pro-rate, then start a new account on the same day, and pay for the 2nd half of the month, SE still gets the whole monthly bill plus a box sale.

Now, if they banned thousands of accounts monthly and they stayed banned, then SE would be losing a lot of money.

But since when did RMT stay banned?

[Xavier]

They make more money when they buy new copies of FFXI and start a new account. If you get banned on the 15th and get a half-month pro-rate, then start a new account on the same day, and pay for the 2nd half of the month, SE still gets the whole monthly bill plus a box sale.

Now, if they banned thousands of accounts monthly and they stayed banned, then SE would be losing a lot of money.

But since when did RMT stay banned?

Its win/win for Square/players regardless. Square gets extra money out of the deal, the players get a few weeks of peace while the GS level up new characters. Its not a bad deal as long as they continually ban.