Chocobo Riding to other citys,towns (Race Time Quest)

FFXI had a Chocobo sorta mini game/quest where you would rent a chocobo at a city and npc would tell you to ride from Grindnna to Ul'Dah and completion on staying on chocobo and reaching the zone location would rank you on your time and give you gil.

Before renting chocobo they would mention who has the fastest speed time for completing that in the server.

Id like FFXIV to add ther own kinda quest within the game and maybe add some adjustments to it.

I remember that, would be pretty good if they did implement it.
I remember doing it earlier this year and somehow managed to beat the "best time" by about a minute xD

A gil reward wouldn't be that great imo, but possibly some Chocobo related item as a reward would be nice.

I'd actually like that but more like this:

<world announcement>
The Chocobo Blitz Event has started!
All registered racers please proceed to the following Chocobo Stable(s) to participate, failure to do so disqualifies your registry form.

@ The Chocobo Stable:

NPC: BLAH BLAH BLAH *I've marked the goal on your map* BLAH BLAH

Outside:
*A giant ribbon lines up all of the chocobo and their riders and a giant KWEH!! in gold letters appear in front of your screen meaning "GO"* (Watch out for monsters placed on the field to hinder you from victory! Look for chests that'll help you along the way, if knocked off your chocobo, go to the last checkpoint touched to receive a knock-down penalty that slows your chocobo (state of weakness) and continue the race)

1st Prizes for winning:

New gear for your chocobo that increases speed/defense
New chocobo jack coat/dress/hat/pants/cape/ that increases rider's stability/handling of the chocobo's movement
a gold crown that says "Chocobo Racing King/Queen" and baraging rights (until someone beats you)

2nd prize:
Saddle flags
Silver tiara thingy that says "Chocobo racing prince/Princess"

3rd:
bronze circlet that says "Chocobo racing slow poke"

(The prizes are for PERSONAL chocobo use only outside of racing, the items cannot be used for races)

Oh man I did a few of those. They were fun and Falcus, that would be a nice little deal. Gil or another Chocobo related reward would be nice. Guess we will have to wait and see exactly what we're getting. Just wondering if they have even put in any thought to raising them as in XI but at least the renting/Grand Companie aspect is better than nothing. :)

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

I'd actually like that but more like this:

<world announcement>
The Chocobo Blitz Event has started!
All registered racers please proceed to the following Chocobo Stable(s) to participate, failure to do so disqualifies your registry form.

@ The Chocobo Stable:

NPC: BLAH BLAH BLAH *I've marked the goal on your map* BLAH BLAH

Outside:
*A giant ribbon lines up all of the chocobo and their riders and a giant KWEH!! in gold letters appear in front of your screen meaning "GO"* (Watch out for monsters placed on the field to hinder you from victory! Look for chests that'll help you along the way, if knocked off your chocobo, go to the last checkpoint touched to receive a knock-down penalty that slows your chocobo (state of weakness) and continue the race)

1st Prizes for winning:
New gear for your chocobo that increases speed/defense
New chocobo jack coat/dress/hat/pants/cape/ that increases rider's stability/handling of the chocobo's movement
a gold crown that says "Chocobo Racing King/Queen" and baraging rights (until someone beats you)

2nd prize:
Saddle flags
Silver tiara thingy that says "Chocobo racing prince/Princess"

3rd:
bronze circlet that says "Chocobo racing slow poke"

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And you start your new position with SE's Dev team when? LOL That sounds even BETTER ! See, us old school XI players can come up with new and exciting twists for XIV. Separating both games while using things from the previous to be new and fresh in Eorzea! Nice work AsterBarnivere! :cool:

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Originally Posted by Geesus

And you start your new position with SE's Dev team when? LOL That sounds even BETTER ! See, us old school XI players can come up with new and exciting twists for XIV. Separating both games while using things from the previous to be new and fresh in Eorzea! Nice work AsterBarnivere! :cool:

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Why Thank You (The chocobo racing disappointed me in XI because I believed we would be able to actually RIDE our birds, not some stranger) lol

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

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Originally Posted by Griss

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

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LOLOL! True.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

Why Thank You (The chocobo racing disappointed me in XI because I believed we would be able to actually RIDE our birds, not some stranger) lol

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I did too that's why I think this would be a fun event. It would include the entire population that owned a Chocobo. And the bragging rights would be huge.

i didn't really play the choco races or bring resources with choco like in ffxi, but if they do add it they need to make it so records don't reset, i felt that to be one of the stupidest things. i didn't really do any of the side games, never found them fun and no worthy rewards so rewards would be great too. but if it's boring an with rewards would be like giving us great rewards in pvp, half the player base would be annoyed lol.

one thing that absolutly sucked was chocobo races, i'm sry watching npc's race? lol ...with every side game se made then more and more boring and stupid lol. lets hope for better ones this time.

idea of timed choco races can be really fun if done right.

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Originally Posted by Griss

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

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BLUE ONES CAN!!

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Originally Posted by Archadius

BLUE ONES CAN!!

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Womp womp. :p haha

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

1st Prizes for winning:
New gear for your chocobo that increases speed/defense
New chocobo jack coat/dress/hat/pants/cape/ that increases rider's stability/handling of the chocobo's movement
a gold crown that says "Chocobo Racing King/Queen" and baraging rights (until someone beats you)

2nd prize:
Saddle flags
Silver tiara thingy that says "Chocobo racing prince/Princess"

3rd:
bronze circlet that says "Chocobo racing slow poke"

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So this may be a small point and I'm nitpicking a theoretical idea, but here goes anyways.

Just gotta say that I'm strongly against granting faster racing gear to the 1st place race winners. Reason for this being, is that those who are already good enough to win, are then being rewarded with equipment that grants an edge that makes it even easier to win.

Once enough racers had attained the gear and the competition became saturated with "geared up" racers, a rift would develop between those that had won the faster gear and those who hadn't. The racers without gear would never be able to attain it because the only way to get it is to win, and the only way to win is to have faster gear, leaving the races virtually inaccessible to them.

So if better racing gear were to exist, it shouldn't be gained via winning the races, but by some other means. Race prizes should either be aesthetic, or improve some other factor.

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

So this may be a small point and I'm nitpicking a theoretical idea, but here goes anyways.

Just gotta say that I'm strongly against granting faster racing gear to the 1st place race winners. Reason for this being, is that those who are already good enough to win, are then being rewarded with equipment that grants an edge that makes it even easier to win.

Once enough racers had attained the gear and the competition became saturated with "geared up" racers, a rift would develop between those that had won the faster gear and those who hadn't. The racers without gear would never be able to attain it because the only way to get it is to win, and the only way to win is to have faster gear, leaving the races virtually inaccessible to them.

So if better racing gear were to exist, it shouldn't be gained via winning the races, but by some other means. Race prizes should either be aesthetic, or improve some other factor.

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I was about to point that out ;P

But anyways, the OP was talking about chocobo rental - which should be the same Chocobo for everyone. But that would lose some of its meaning.

I loved Aster's idea, but for that we needed a couple of things:
1- that u just mentioned - no better racing gear awarded at the end
2- a much more responsive server (or character refresh time), or we would be seeing ourselves winning and actually losing ;P

Well I missed that but I think it's because I looked at the prize gear as for your chocobo non race but in use out in the field. So like gear for your chocobo but not for racing. I may be wrong but that's what I thought. :)

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Originally Posted by Geesus

Well I missed that but I think it's because I looked at the prize gear as for your chocobo non race but in use out in the field. So like gear for your chocobo but not for racing. I may be wrong but that's what I thought. :)

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correct! xD (It was for personal chocobo usage, not for racing) lol I should edit that to prevent anymore confusion

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Originally Posted by Griss

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

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Maybe SE can build an underground channel tunnel for chocobo riders and the entry point be at the Ferry and we can choose to either take the Ferry and go afk for awhile or fish or we could choose to continue riding our chocobo through a long tunnel to get to LL ^^ It could either be a long cave tunnel or maybe Ul'dah and LL got together and built a kind of glass tunnel and we could see fishes etc swimming around on the outside. /shrug

chocobo digging please ^^

I'd be down with this. Maybe implement some sort of stamina system, similar to the Horse Riding in Red Dead Redemption for a bit of challenge and trickery.

Instead of it saving your track time on the server it save it on your forum image.

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Originally Posted by Fayette

Maybe SE can build an underground channel tunnel for chocobo riders and the entry point be at the Ferry and we can choose to either take the Ferry and go afk for awhile or fish or we could choose to continue riding our chocobo through a long tunnel to get to LL ^^ It could either be a long cave tunnel or maybe Ul'dah and LL got together and built a kind of glass tunnel and we could see fishes etc swimming around on the outside. /shrug

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Maybe a tunnel with some mobs to make it a challenge or add some fun?

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Originally Posted by Geesus

Maybe a tunnel with some mobs to make it a challenge or add some fun?

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Perhaps only if you are on the City to City race quest have the mobs but otherwise if you are just riding your chocobo to LL instead of taking the ferry, then I say the tunnel should be clear and safe just as if you were taking the ferry.

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Originally Posted by Griss

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

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They can't fly either... lol

What's the point of racing on vehicles that all have the same speed =( Honestly.

They should have some sort of system like Ocarina of Time's horse riding stamina that you could control.
Imagine a racing game with fixed car speeds. Not that exciting.

I'm all for chocobo racing if it's done with some gameplay included.

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Originally Posted by Fayette

Perhaps only if you are on the City to City race quest have the mobs but otherwise if you are just riding your chocobo to LL instead of taking the ferry, then I say the tunnel should be clear and safe just as if you were taking the ferry.

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So the race would/could be an instance of sorts? Hmmmmm might actually be kind of cool even if not for the tunnel idea but just in general. I do think it would be rather entertaining to see a whole HERD of Chocobos and their riders scurrying across the fields. Could you imagine just seeing this cloud of dust and maybe actually hearing the thunder of all the choco feet slamming the ground? Idk, have this mental image. I may not b explaing it well enough so sorry. :-/

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Originally Posted by Venat

FFXI had a Chocobo sorta mini game/quest where you would rent a chocobo at a city and npc would tell you to ride from Grindnna to Ul'Dah and completion on staying on chocobo and reaching the zone location would rank you on your time and give you gil.

Before renting chocobo they would mention who has the fastest speed time for completing that in the server.

Id like FFXIV to add ther own kinda quest within the game and maybe add some adjustments to it.

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Uuuuuh.. i liked that Minigame. I would like to see something similiar in FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

They can't fly either... lol

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BLACK ONES CAN!!