Chocobo racing, does everything cheat in this game?

[Zatias]

I look forward to seeing your bird's "final form".

Once you get capped STR and END you can generally beat most of the C4 and maybe C3 races for extra chocobucks each day and make it easier on you. Just try to avoid the "rainy" races, they can really hurt your bird's chances, especially when paired with evil chocobos with fire and pepper biscuits ; ; lol

[Kavik]

I've noticed this lol, and i think i forgot to mention this is my 6th raised bird, i owned both her parents and the each had first class str/end, father had canter and gallop and mother had burrow (inherited) and first class str/end as well (only female i had at the time ><) so i'm hoping this will help me to get a really racer. Also, are +5 care plans better then 5% care plans? i don't wish to try it if someone else has already done it.

[Zatias]

The 5% are better once you get to a certain point, like 120+ points in that skill (high "average", low "Better than Average"). Below 100 points they are worse. They also start to trump the +8 points care plans around 180 points into the skill ("Impressive"-"Outstanding" rating).

If your bird is Average to Better than Average in a skill, you may want to go with one of the % plans. The only real disadvantage is it doesn't give 5 points to two stats like the normal care plans.

[Kavik]

Hmmm i've always kept my birds on delivering packages because of the dual increases, i think i'll keep doing that until i need to pump up it's discernment, and hope for the best, i've never had a problem getting str/end up to SS.

[Urat]

You might wanna check out the price you can NPC sell a stack of vomp carrots to an NPC for, then look back at the cost of your chocobucks.

If you get what I'm saying don't actually say it here, best to keep this one under wraps. Just a "thank you" or whatever is enough for me to know you get it.

If you are having trouble I can drop more hints I guess.

[Kavik]

I was originally going to post that i needed more help with hints... but i think i get it now.

[Kavik]

If zatias still reads this thread, a strange thing happened, i used the 80 chocobuck option of 'raising one of the birds stats' since i'm still on str/end plans i used the str one, 2 'days' later, my chocobo's str went up to outstanding while it's end is still impressive (end has been going up before str since it was a chick, taking as many as 4 days to catch up when it was younger) so it would appear that the training sessions do have a pretty good impact on the stats of the bird.

[Urat]

If zatias still reads this thread, a strange thing happened, i used the 80 chocobuck option of 'raising one of the birds stats' since i'm still on str/end plans i used the str one, 2 'days' later, my chocobo's str went up to outstanding while it's end is still impressive (end has been going up before str since it was a chick, taking as many as 4 days to catch up when it was younger) so it would appear that the training sessions do have a pretty good impact on the stats of the bird.

So the effect of the plan isn't instant? I never noticed this, odd.

[Kavik]

Thats not exactly what i meant Urat. Since i only used one of the raise attributes training thingies my bird didn't have high enough str to boost it to the next lvl. But it had enough of an effect to boost it PAST where it's endurance was at and gets it's str up before it's end when it's end was going up much faster then it's str. They should be going up about equally now. It took another day of care plans/food/long walks for it's end to catch up to outstanding. So it did take effect immediatly but since the bird wasn't close enough to outstanding for the npc to tell me it was outstanding i had to wait until it had enough 'points' to be outstanding.

[Zatias]

Raising stats also has to do with your chocobo's condition (high spirits, illness, or whatever). This means that stat gain can vary depending on which direct care you did with your chocobo on that day, and depending on your chocobo's "genes"/personality.

You will notice with most birds that eventually 1 stat will pull slightly ahead of the other. For example, one of my birds started with both STR and END at the same level with the care plan Take a Walk in Town, then Carry Packages. STR finally pulled ahead at the Above Average mark, whereas END was still at Average. This was with no chocobuck increases.

What your chocobucks increases did MAY have been the result of the slight differences such as these over time, though it is odd that yours was better on END in the beginning, yet we see the increase of STR here.

Let me ask, what personality type does your bird have? Patient, Aggressive? And was this the Tokens increase or just the Chocobuck Training?

There is much I do not know about chocobo raising; like many of the mechanics in ffxi, there is some randomness that seems to flow throughout. This is interesting that maybe the training can do more or less depending on certain conditions.