Chocobo Racing!<3 Devs please take a look!

Hey guys, I just thought of a cool idea if they decide to implement chocobo racing into FFXIV:ARR.

With the new system, engine, graphics, servers and UI, it would be nice if they made chocobo racing more hands on, as opposed to just watching a race. The idea is kind of like Mario Kart, and those types of games...

You would raise your chocobo, feed it different foods to affect different stats(speed,power,agility,etc.) and when it's grown and ready to race you can race it.

You would be in control of the chocobo, steering it, playing it etc. There could be power ups, and traps, and your chocobo would have HP and MP.
HP = The chocobos health of course, attacks/spells from other chocobos can damage it, if lost you automatically lose unless you have a phoenix down, life spell etc.
MP = Used for spells(spell effects depend on what type of spell) and if lost you cannot use spells to your advantage, can be restored by ethers etc.
TP = Can be used for abilities, once gone can be either slowly restored by just running, passing certain parts of the racetrack, or by items.

I was thinking for starters the 4 basic elemental spells from the FF games such as fire,ice,water,lightning.

Fire = Can either cover the chocobo in flames, sort of like berserk making it more powerful to bump off other's chocobos, or can form fireballs that work as bombs to explode if ran into by other chocobos.
Ice = Can create a sheet of ice that results in chocobos slipping on it and running off the track, or bumping into walls/gates etc.
Lightning = Can for a short time release dozens of random striking bolts onto the racetrack and if hit by one can stun your chocobo for a few seconds etc.
Water = Can create a puddle or small pool of water that if tread into, the chocobo starts running real slow, giving others the chance to run past etc.

Maybe wind, can boost your chocobos speed to run real fast for a short period of time.
And earth can be a huge ability that will, for a short period of time, shake the racetrack and cause all chocobos to stumble etc.

Items can also be implemented, potions to heal hurt chocobos HP, ethers to restore MP used for attack/buff spells/abilities. Pheonix downs if your chocobo loses all HP and cannot race anymore(automatic lose). Etc.

Ill try to update this if I have any more ideas/additions. If you guys can add or have ideas, let them out, the devs might like this and show this to Yoshi! I know I would log on everyday just to play a mini-game like this, if installed into FFXIV:ARR.

Thanks for reading, hope you guys like/agree, and if you do keep this thread going! :cool: :rolleyes: :o

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Final Fantasy’s staple winged creature, the Chocobo, will play a larger role when the game relaunches. Currently, Chocobos only serve as player mounts, but Yoshida’s team plans to introduce Chocobo raising as a feature with the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV. In short, players will be able to visually customize their Chocobos and raise them to fill combat roles, including tank, healer, caster, and more. I originally confused this with Chocobo racing before I was corrected, so I decided to ask about that, too. Why the heck not?

As it turns out, Yoshida’s team is also interested in doing Chocobo racing in Final Fantasy XIV, but the exact implementation poses a number of challenges in an MMO. While the team and players want to see Chocobo racing in the game, everyone has a different idea of how they’d like to see it happen. Do players simply want to bet on Chocobos? Do they want to raise Chocobos to race? Do they want to race the Chocobos themselves? Fortunately, Yoshida’s team is looking for a solution that addresses these challenges and they are definitely interested in pursuing Chocobo racing once they can get past this particular roadblock.

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Originally Posted by Deli

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Lol thanks for that, this is just my idea on how I think they should implement chocobo racing, and to see if the devs agree and can do something along these lines, if not no biggie :o