Advanced chocobo raising

[Cymmina]

I am an A55 digger. I had a hard time deciding between Sky Blue and Blue silks, since Sky Blue sounded like it would decrease the number of digs needed to rankup while Blue would double up the amount of digs I could do per day. Sounded like roughly the same result in the end, but Blue seemed like the reasonable choice since it would still be useful once I'm done ranking up. But what if you can't skill up when your coat triggers? If your bird didn't find it challenging to dig up, why would you for skillup purposes?

I should, in theory, be ranking up within my next digging session or 2. So I'm keeping a close eye on exactly when I get my rankup.

Edit: got my rankup, it happened on a normal dig, not one where my coat triggered.

[nitsuj]

How hard are the C1 (or C2/3 for that matter) races?

I always win C4 when I use items... does it get a lot more random at the higher levels? Or does a maxed out bird still win quite consistently?

[Clave]

How hard are the C1 (or C2/3 for that matter) races?

I always win C4 when I use items... does it get a lot more random at the higher levels? Or does a maxed out bird still win quite consistently?

They don't seem particularly harder per se, but it's harder simply because you get more competition. Racers typically only do C1s after they have enough solo victory points to do so. Also, try to avoid JP times. Whenever I race in early morning hours I get more competition than during say, afternoon. Then again this may only be a Fairy thing. JP seem far more interested in chocobo racing than NA.

[nitsuj]

They don't seem particularly harder per se, but it's harder simply because you get more competition. Racers typically only do C1s after they have enough solo victory points to do so. Also, try to avoid JP times. Whenever I race in early morning hours I get more competition than during say, afternoon. Then again this may only be a Fairy thing. JP seem far more interested in chocobo racing than NA.

This is good news! I can run the race whenever, so I'll check some various times. 100k a day makes Chocobo Racing actually worth it, if you can win it consistently.

Also, it says "24 hours from last race". Is that valid? I've never actually tried, as it's usually 24-48 since my last race when I go do it, but I'm hoping it's actually Japanese midnight?

[Clave]

It's exactly 24 hours from last race down to the millisecond. It kinda sucks because eventually, even if you try to sign up at the same time everyday, the dialogue always pushes you later by a few seconds. Well, not so much anymore. It was annoying when there were few C1 races, but now there's 12 of them a day :D

[nitsuj]

It's exactly 24 hours from last race down to the millisecond. It kinda sucks because eventually, even if you try to sign up at the same time everyday, the dialogue always pushes you later by a few seconds. Well, not so much anymore. It was annoying when there were few C1 races, but now there's 12 of them a day :D

dang... I raced last night at 12:50am PST lol...

looks like no racing tonight for me

24 hours from the signup? or the race itself?

[Clave]

From signup.

Edit: You should not have any trouble signing up for the same time slot every day most of the time, since the difference is only a few seconds if you try to sign up as soon as it lets you.

The 24hr countdown begins when you're handed the ticket thing for your race at the end of the dialogue. So when that time comes 24 hours later, you can sign up. If you spam through the saddle choices and lane and stuff it should only be a difference of 3-4 seconds ish.

Stuff does happen though and maybe you'd be late on some days, and that would push ya back etc.

[Guppy]

The increase in chocobucks has dramatically changed circuit racing as a way of making money. Before, the races were inextricably linked to grinding chocobucks. Aside from gil, there's also a chocobuck entry fee, quite hefty at higher tiers. You got some chocobucks back at finish, but the best you could do was break even with a 1st-place finish. Since nobody wins 100%, racers had to constantly grind to keep their pool of capital up.

Post update, even 3rd place finishers win enough chocobucks to break even or profit slightly. While you still need to grind enough chocobucks to create a top-notch racer and some starting funds, it is now possible to earn more chocobucks back than you spend in entry fees. There may soon even be enough extra chocobucks sloshing around the system that we may see people selling training tokens and such.

The system is self-limiting. With additional players competing the net reward will drop, and in theory even enter back into negative territory again. However, with most races having 0-1 player entrants (on my server anyway), it would take a massive surge in numbers before we reach that point.

[tsaroth816]

I feel the same way about Chocobo digging. Before the update it was already barren high competition, and JP time = don't even think of digging. Now with the body silks, it has been 10x worse with everyone testing out those digging up every zone possible XD

I hope the hype will die down soon enough, but it wasn't great in the 1st place so it can't really recover. Just not enough room in a server for so many chocobo diggers :/

[Rugazanami]

Well, I had bred a friend's black choco with a black choco card I bought from a bazaar and in hopes of raising the chick to be a digger bird. Unfortunately, it seems that the chick inherited Auto-Regen, which I do not want. Is it possible to still get it to learn Bore and Burrow, or should I give up on him?

[Bockage]

Well, I had bred a friend's black choco with a black choco card I bought from a bazaar and in hopes of raising the chick to be a digger bird. Unfortunately, it seems that the chick inherited Auto-Regen, which I do not want. Is it possible to still get it to learn Bore and Burrow, or should I give up on him?

http://bg-wiki.com/bg/Lethe_Potage
http://bg-wiki.com/bg/Lethe_Consomme
These are supposed remove abilities learned.

[urat]

Using zone timer, Im getting 43 seconds as my delay to dig.

Could any other diggers use it to get a more accurate time on the delay of their digs?

I'm wondering if our A## isnt as accurate as we'd like, or mayhaps your dig timer doenst start until after the black screen fades, making up that odd 3 seconds

[soxfan]

yeah with zone timer I always get like a 3 second delay for what i am at. I'm A20 and with zone timer I can start at around 23, so I think the zoning and such and when it starts is just a little off so is 3sec difference.

[Cymmina]

Is it just me or do the "ease" messages from the Blue Racing Silks not seem to always count against your total for the day? I only dig on a new/full moon and I manually count the digs/ease since I don't know of a digging parser. Here's my numbers so far:

Items/Ease message
187/105
178/87
154/61 (forgot to put on my silks on the last run, was 127/57 after previous)
178/95

I might have given up early on that first dig, but the other digs I am almost positive I was digging to fatigue. I'll admit my counting is probably a bit off, but by 10 or more? It's frustrating wasting all those extra greens when you think you're able to dig more.

[Not Kuno]

I've been trying to do chocobo racing in the circuit but it doesn't let me sign up to any of the races. I've raced before a long time ago on my last bird but now it doesn't let me race, it just says "you didnt meet the requirements" blah blah and it doesn't say what the fuck I have to do. Any ideas?

[Amok]

Trying for higher tier races without enough solo points? (Should start with C4 during :0 to :14 and :30 to :44 past the hour)
Not enough Chocobucks?
Not enough Gil? XD

[Not Kuno]

Might be chocobucks since I blew all I had on these silks. I tried C4 so it isn't that, and I have enough gil. >_> How many do I need? like 5-10?

I hate that they don't even say what the problem is. -_-

[Not Kuno]

Yeah it was the chocobucks. >_>

Also does it say anywhere the requirements to get to C3 and so forth?

[Amok]

It's undoubtedly on wiki, but I have this bookmarked for a non-cluttered fast-loading reference:
h**p://community.livejournal.com/project_kweh/9254.html

Still has the old gil/bucks rewards.

[Landael]

With the Purple Race Silks that have 'Personal chocobo: Increases movement speed' has anyone noticed an increase in speed? On my chocobo with fully capped STR and gallop & canter, I don't notice any difference at all. I'd certainly notice if it had the typical 12% gain. I'm assuming the piece won't go past the cap.