Riding Chocobos in town?

Chocobo knight for the win!!!!

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Originally Posted by giftforce

But it's a chocobo, it's not a ferral beast.

Maybe if it could only walk, not run?

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Everyone says the game needs more of a final fantasy feel, chocobos have never been able to go in towns or dungeons, which is why I say they shouldnt beable to now, we dont need chocobos in towns so dont allow it imo

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Originally Posted by Sorel

I personally don't see how the Development Team would be able to prevent chocobos riders from entering towns. But then again, they do manage to keep rain out of cities, so I guess it's theoretically possible to extend that game logic to chocobos.

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Its a quite easy if/else statement in the programming, basicly if a pc is on foot allow entery else insert an invisible wall.

Or they could say if pc is on foot allow entery else open chocobo menu/prompt to dismount

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Everyone says the game needs more of a final fantasy feel, chocobos have never been able to go in towns or dungeons, which is why I say they shouldnt beable to now, we dont need chocobos in towns so dont allow it imo



Its a quite easy if/else statement in the programming, basicly if a pc is on foot allow entery else insert an invisible wall.

Or they could say if pc is on foot allow entery else open chocobo menu/prompt to dismount

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Not only ^THIS but wouldn't the addition of rideable chocobos in the cities make them even laggier?

As far as how they would keep them out: Isn't there already a natural zoning area right outside the cities? Simply do what they did in FFXI, have the player automatically dismount at zoning points if they want to continue.

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Originally Posted by DurtiMonkeyToe

Not only ^THIS but wouldn't the addition of rideable chocobos in the cities make them even laggier?

As far as how they would keep them out: Isn't there already a natural zoning area right outside the cities? Simply do what they did in FFXI, have the player automatically dismount at zoning points if they want to continue.

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In FFXI it just zoned you back on a chocobo, to dismount while zoning you had to hit the dismount button then zone, if you were still on chocobo it would dismount you while you were zoning

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Originally Posted by Delsus

In FFXI it just zoned you back on a chocobo, to dismount while zoning you had to hit the dismount button then zone, if you were still on chocobo it would dismount you while you were zoning

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It's been awhile since I have played FFXI. Either way, it is the same as what I meant. When the player hits that zone for the city, the game could just force them to dismount, losing their rental.

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Originally Posted by DurtiMonkeyToe

It's been awhile since I have played FFXI. Either way, it is the same as what I meant. When the player hits that zone for the city, the game could just force them to dismount, losing their rental.

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It would work, not sure which would need less programming because an invisible wall would need to be drawn over the gate. Either way I dont mind which tehy choose, as long as you can only ride them to the chocobo stables furthest

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Originally Posted by Delsus

It would work, not sure which would need less programming because an invisible wall would need to be drawn over the gate. Either way I dont mind which tehy choose, as long as you can only ride them to the chocobo stables furthest

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I only mentioned it the way I did so that we could keep immersion intact rather than just having our chocobos ramming against invisible walls.

People on the FFXIV forum have a weird way of seeing the world.

"it never happened in a previous Final Fantasy so why now?"

Um, to answer that: Maybe because that ^ is your only objection.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

It would work, not sure which would need less programming because an invisible wall would need to be drawn over the gate. Either way I dont mind which tehy choose, as long as you can only ride them to the chocobo stables furthest

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All the chocobo stables are currently a good bit into each city's zone. Without the benefit of the zoning-fade-to-black that we had in FFXI, I'm not sure how the Development Team will be able to pull off the actually mounting and dismounting process within cities.

The only problem I could see with chocobos in towns is limsa. There are a lot of narrow staircases/ramps there. It would be hard to get a chocobo up there.