chocobo porters.......not just for the big yellow birds anymore

I really enjoy using the porter to travel. I\while on the road I get a chance to see the wonderful landscape.

so it got me to thinking o have this huge stable of mounts that I hardly ever use. so I thought what if I could pay the porters to train my other mounts to run those routes?

example. I pay say 2j gill for them to train one of my other mounts. once this is done then when I use the porter I can pick which mount I want to ride on.. the more I pay to get trained the more choices I have on which mount I want to ride on for that trip.

so what do ya think? good bad or stupid?

I don't see why not, however once I got my grand company chocobo I never used the porters again. Even then I had only used the porter about once or twice before that ever.

Chocobo Porters useless feature kinda.

If SE wanted to make them actually useful then they should have to limit us from summoning a mount. This way can Rent Chocobo for fees like we did in XI. Sure its annoying but its a gil sink.
By Design theres no area in this game that takes long toget to. If they removed some Teleports there might be reason to use Porter for faster travel. Or you give Chocobo Porters to travel to locations players cant reach with there mounts.

If they could create Chocobo Porters into Chocobo Escort Quests for each location it might serve another purpose.

I use choco porter all the time. =D I have a chocobo, a giant eye bat guy, and a tiger.

why do I use a porter? because sometimes I like to sit back and let the choco do the running.

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Originally Posted by NinjaTaru72

I use choco porter all the time. =D I have a chocobo, a giant eye bat guy, and a tiger.

why do I use a porter? because sometimes I like to sit back and let the choco do the running.

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Can get there faster with a teleport and just afk. Also Porters have limited travel locations. Most of them just ride you in a direction for 3-5mins.

The porter is very useful if you want to get somewhere not near an Aetheryte, especially if you want a potty break...

Also, you know at some point in the story the Aetherytes are gonna break.

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Originally Posted by Beetle

Can get there faster with a teleport and just afk. Also Porters have limited travel locations. Most of them just ride you in a direction for 3-5mins.

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When I was doing the Relic quest I would use the chocobo porter to the mill which can't be ported to. Plus gave me time to make my sandwich! Dem airship sandwiches I miss them. lol

I use porters so I can mess with gear and inventory while traveling.

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Originally Posted by Beetle

Can get there faster with a teleport and just afk. Also Porters have limited travel locations. Most of them just ride you in a direction for 3-5mins.

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sometimes the scenic route is the best route.

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Originally Posted by saber_alter

sometimes the scenic route is the best route.

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Whats scenic about it? Your in your restroom or your kitchen. XD

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Originally Posted by Beetle

Whats scenic about it? Your in your restroom or your kitchen. XD

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i use porters to sight-see. it's a lot easier when you don't have to focus on moving.

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Originally Posted by Beetle

Can get there faster with a teleport and just afk. Also Porters have limited travel locations. Most of them just ride you in a direction for 3-5mins.

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im also a penny pincher, I could have 2k or 200k, 90% of the time, ill spend 5-50 gil for a porter rather than 100-500 for a telly

Porters need to expand the routes. Not being able to travel to gridania from dragonhead for example is just beyond wasting the potential of the system. It's downright throwing it away.

Also the fact that you can't even travel to grid from south shroud bar without re-routing is just insane.

I use porters quite often, especially when crafting and handing in leve items. I could Just teleport straight to the courier receiver's camp but using the airship and chocobo porter, hand in and then returning is cheaper. The extra few minutes I incur isn't a big deal because I'm usually watching stuff while I level my crafts.

Routes does need to expand though. Also needs clickable maps instead of remembering which is which. I remember the names of place but it would still be nicer to have both.

I'm always poor (yes, I'm a crafter and gatherer, but I do a lot of free stuff for folks and don't do a lot that brings in gil) so porters save me a lot of money without much more effort than teleporting.

Porter rides are relaxing and they do give a good chance to do other things (as others have mentioned, messing with gear and items or going AFK for brief periods) so it'd really be a shame to lose them.

They could definitely use some more routes though, some of the missing ones make no sense at all. "Oh, you want to go south? No, no, we don't do that here, you'll have to go north and then get another porter to further south from there. Be sure to wave on your way back past us on the way to your real destination!"

i think this is getting a bit sidetracked.... I wasn't debating if they are useful or not or how good or bad the routes are. or if you use them or don't use them.. I just wanted to know what you thought about being able to have a choice on which mount you used when you did use them.

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Originally Posted by Cronar

i think this is getting a bit sidetracked.... I wasn't debating if they are useful or not or how good or bad the routes are. or if you use them or don't use them.. I just wanted to know what you thought about being able to have a choice on which mount you used when you did use them.

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Sorry about that.

Honestly, I think I'd use another bird. Legacy choco is my current mount of choice.

Most would probably use Behemoth, Coeurl or a chocobo.

Being able to choose is rarely a bad thing.

aww no worries I was just trying make sure this stayed on track. so the point would not get muddled and lost

I like using the chocobo porter much more than teleporting around- it's pretty relaxing to just watch the Shroud pass me by as I go off to wherever, and it makes Eorzea feel much more like a continent than a disjointed group of areas that you don't need to know the map for. I think OP has a cool idea here.

I use the choco porter for various reasons:

I want to get somewhere there isn't and aetherite, (or dismount halfway there), it's cheaper than teleporting, I'd rather let the porter get me there than get lost trying to find the way myself, I need a brb.


I wish the system were better though, and I like the OP's idea of using your other mounts.

Would be nice if chocobo porters were more interconnected so you could ride from one to another.

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Originally Posted by NinjaTaru72

im also a penny pincher, I could have 2k or 200k, 90% of the time, ill spend 5-50 gil for a porter rather than 100-500 for a telly

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^ This all the way. If I find myself in Uldah, but need to go Vesper Bay, I'll hire a porter that takes me there for about 30 gil, on a 2 minute trip. Where as if I used the teleport system I would have to port to Horizon, spend more money, AND still travel with my own mount to the location I want.

With porters I can spend less money and get myself a snack, take a bathroom break, or play on my iphone. It's good to take a break from the game every once in a while, and the porter reminds me of this everytime I use one.

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Originally Posted by wannabesuperman

Also, you know at some point in the story the Aetherytes are gonna break.

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What, again?
They are only 5 years old. That is bad quality.

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

Would be nice if chocobo porters were more interconnected so you could ride from one to another.

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an inter-regional porter would be good. Someone who don't only run between the city of the region and the camps of the region, but also to another region. Like from Ul'dah to Camp Dragonhead.

bump...kinda surprised more folks didn't like this idea..then again after looking thru 40 pages of bitching to find this thread.. I can see why this one wasn't negative enough I guess. so how about this.. choco's are ugly and suck and this game is gonna die in two months.. but how would you like to be able to chose from your stable of mounts to use in the porter service.