Chocobo racing facelift

Chocobo racing is fun... but boring after you have bred your max bird. 3 tracks, over and over (let's not mention it pretty much never rains) with no goal, and occasionally you get another player for a race or two. How about having Track Records for each. A top 10 with prizes each month, fastest time only for each player. Give us something to do... Some new tracks, go crazy with the weather (maybe random lightning bolts stun or propel forward - if it ever rains) but give us something...

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Originally Posted by RalanBek

Some new tracks

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I would love a new track in thavnair (and it makes sense to have one there), but that at the same time also means that it either will be endwalker only, or f2p players could see a region they cant reach.

And tournaments, an event where you get to face all the tracks after each other (even if most of the enemies are AI), but with greater MGP rewards for each next stage. And just like triple triad, they could make it time restricted to get a higher chance of matching players together.

I don't know why the devs are so lazy?
It should be possible to add at least ONE new track in 6 years development time???

Old content is dead content.

But yes, it would be nice to have some updates there.

some ideas (in order of dev difficulty ?) :
-player tournaments like TT
-new races
-add flight (could even reuse leap of faith maps for flying races)

New tracks would be the best new addition. We could have them added dynamically through sidequests triggered at the end of each major expansion, even. Or a secondary Manderville quest-line for Godbert. (We could also possibly have Chocobo Racing in Norvrandt, Have a secondary chocobo there and tracks specific to the world.) I've had a few ideas based on old horse racing games I've played in the past. Gallop Racer and G1 Jockey, for those who remember them were exceptionally good game series.

Racing Mechanics:
Adding flight, even if it's just gliding or leaping off cliffs.
Adding jumps. Little fences and whatnot.
Add a secondary stamina bar that fills based on how happy you keep your chocobo during a race (how often you lather it, what you run into etc. Much like a limit break I guess.)

Stats/Traits:
Adding chocobo temperaments. In my games the horses had not only track preferences but also they could get distracted, some didn't like to be moved around too much, others would get discouraged if surrounded or shoot gaps etc.
Adding more inherited passive skills. For example, a chocobo who likes to lead the pack for half the race gets a stamina buff? Or a chocobo who likes to run in the back gets a sprint proc. Giving chocobos pack placement preferences that impact stamina consumption would add a lot to racing by itself.


Mostly tho, more variety would go the furthest.

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Originally Posted by Naraka

I don't know why the devs are so lazy?
It should be possible to add at least ONE new track in 6 years development time???

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I don't think they are lazy, i think they have their priorities somewhere else, working with this dated game engine and progressing story content, all the cutscenes ect.. take a whole lot of time, then they create stuff like Criteon dungeons almost no one cares about.

I wish they would invest more into improving the UI, quality of life features ect... reworking some of the old stuff to be up to date or more interesting. I could make a huge list of things that could need work but a) they don't really care and b) they probably lack the manpower for it.