can you make chocobo digging more profitable?

[Cyriack]

can you make chocobo digging more profitable? its a ton of work to get to r10 and making only 300k to 1mil in mats that dont even sell anymore its kinda disappointing. also to dig up alex and hmp u have to really get lucky and u dont get alot of it even with the pants and a perfect digging chocobo and r10. would also be nice if we could get more sparkling stones and beitetsu and plutons from digging and rift cinder and other nice objects even if rarely for the rift cinder and dross would still be a nice reward for all the hard work. also would be cool if there were real rewards for the chocobo races with personal chocobos its kinda crappy to just get a title for doing it.

[Gwydion]

I agree. Mastery Rank made me raise a chocobo and I just won my first C2 race. It is so much fun!

It is kind of strange how signups and races occure 1 RL hour apart ...but I get it.

Also, your pool of items for digging is much better than mine. I'm currently only 72 wing skill and the best item I ever say was a Phil. Stone!

[Voidstorm]

I think Ruthenium Ore and other guild-only 1,126,125 gil crafting materials should be added to the dig pools. One per zone, added to the rarest list in pool. maybe limit to day, night, or moon phase.

As for the 4 per hour races: C4 race should be a 1M NPC pool, C3 a 2M NPC pool, C2 a 5M NPC pool, and C1 a 10M NPC pool that you can bet in.
This would add some stability to the betting rates vs a single player betting 1 max bet creating a massive swing in betting ods.
Also, the base reward before the % pool bonus should be 10x its current offerings.
The chocobuck reward for 3rd should be 100% of your chocobucks returned, 2nd 150%, and 1st 200%.

[Cyriack]

I think Ruthenium Ore and other guild-only 1,126,125 gil crafting materials should be added to the dig pools. One per zone, added to the rarest list in pool. maybe limit to day, night, or moon phase.

As for the 4 per hour races: C4 race should be a 1M NPC pool, C3 a 2M NPC pool, C2 a 5M NPC pool, and C1 a 10M NPC pool that you can bet in.
This would add some stability to the betting rates vs a single player betting 1 max bet creating a massive swing in betting ods.
Also, the base reward before the % pool bonus should be 10x its current offerings.
The chocobuck reward for 3rd should be 100% of your chocobucks returned, 2nd 150%, and 1st 200%.

speaking of betting, i tried to bet on my own race won the race first place and still got just my money back. what the heck is up with that.

[Voidstorm]

you have to bet on first & 2nd place, so did you win the bet or lose it?
if you won, depends on what you bet, the pool of gil from NPCs is quite low so the amount of gil you can possibly take per race is not worth the time.

[Cyriack]

you have to bet on first & 2nd place, so did you win the bet or lose it?
if you won, depends on what you bet, the pool of gil from NPCs is quite low so the amount of gil you can possibly take per race is not worth the time.

i won first and 2nd with two of my chars and i still broke even with max bet

[Dragoy]

also would be cool if there were real rewards for the chocobo races with personal chocobos its kinda crappy to just get a title for doing it.

There are a few titles, as well as a neck equipment piece. :]

And so many cutscenes everyone should see.

I don't feel like I want more rewards from it, but I would like it to be easier to do.

The menuing for chocobucks is just bad, for example.

And yeah, the chocoraces rewards could use a touch-up, just not one like the log-in points did get.