DevTalk: Chocobo Thread. Riding! Raising! Racing! You Know You Want Your Fix

[Ryoshi]

I wish I could l love this instead of just liking it.

[Rentahamster]

I wish I could l love this instead of just liking it.

Hm? Is it lacking in some area in your opinion?

edit: lol, oh wait, I see what you mean now, haha

[Platinumstorm]

Not to be a jerk, but I always think it's amazing that people are looking for fluff features like "fix the physics of belts", sometimes it rains when I'm in a cave; fix this before the end of the year!, and other such things before the game is even ready for a launch.

I definitely appreciate fluff, but core stuff is five million times more important than fluff right now.

[Morphemes]

GIMMIE GOLDEN CHOCOBOS THAT WORK FOR DINNER

[Godryc]

To earn your chocobo license I'd like to see a small quest chain. All of the quests would involve using a chocobo in some way.

The first quest could be something simple since I suppose that you're supposed to be learning to ride. So maybe something like an escort mission riding along with a merchant caravan as a guard.

After that maybe things like a tutorial-ish quest that introduces you to all the aspects of renting and owning chocobos (feeding, breeding, equipping etc). Again keeping things to an introduction to basic actions, mentioning that there is more depth but leaving it there for you to investigate more later when you can actually breed them and what not.

Other possible activities could really be anything. A story line could be established with that first merchant escort quest and you get contacted(mail system anyone?) to help said merchant once more. It would be best to provide a variety of tasks so maybe now its the wagon or whatever has broken down and there will be a full out, timed defense you can do. This would be best for parties, maybe even be very difficult to do without a party?

Anyways just wanted to put that out there, obviously the possibilities are many. I think this will be a great opportunity for SE to make one of those milestones that I always hear people talking about. And not just in the sense of obtaining the license but more in that the experience of GETTING the license was so memorable that its just as much a part of the milestone as the license itself.

[Kiara]

Hi Renta,

Fantastic thread that needs bumping. Especially in light of Yoshida-san bringing up the topic of raising your own Chocobos in your personal Garden (from his lengthy Gathering Post today).

Hopefully he implements some of these great ideas here!