Chocobos, airships, and the main city

[PeppinoTuna]

I wouldn't go that far. One of my great annoyances in FF11 was having to track down a White Mage to teleport me somwhere, then mount a chocobo, then run to the city I was going to. Especially Bastok with its "around your rear to reach your elbow" zone design. I stopped hating the transportation system when they added teleports via cities, and that is maybe what needs to be done--restrict "free-for-all" teleporting to aetherytes, but allow you to teleport to your favored destinations anywhere. This way you have a reason to use chocobos without making the game monstrously inconvenient to get around.

That is a great way of looking at it. You've perked my attention.

[Maus]

Chocobos would really give a lot more of a feel to this game then playing some "oh since its free right now its okay" game. Colored chocobos, green ones that travel over hills and some mountains, blue ones that travel over lakes and ponds...

<3

[Eclipse]

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Transportation
This is an exciting topic Yoshi P.. We hear you talking about it in other interviews and we want to hear it from you directly Yoshi P.. Many of us are excited about the idea of Chocobos or Airships and we are waiting patiently for you to tell us.
Now I will discuss the three forms of transportation that has been mentioned:

- Chocobos
We are all very excited about chocobos. We hear that you are thinking about implementing them in a unique way for FFXIV. We are hoping we still get to ride them and still get to breed them. Chocobo breeding was a lot of fun and we are hoping that you do not forget the amazing detail FFXI had in their different characteristics like, color, crown feathers, tail feathers, curved talons, straight talons, beak size, head size, speed, strength, endurance.
Here are some other characteristics that would be fun to consider:
1. Curly feathers (Feather Texture). Here is a link to better explain: Link: Curly Feathers
2. Skin / scale texture
3. Skin / scale color
4. Eye Color
5. Duration of ride.
6. Chocobo Digging Success
We are really hoping to see many features come into play with the chocobos. On another note, if we do get the equivalent of the mog house, can we please have a little stable inside our house so that we may view our chocobo while inside the house? Here is a picture I drew of the concept, not your amazing artsy concept art drawings but it gets the idea across:
Link: http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/...MyMogHouse.png

- Airships
My hope is that we get to pilot them around in the sky. That everyone gets to pilot them who is in the company. That we get to have instanced Air Ship PVP battles in the sky with cannons and ship armor.
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/la.../silvarna1.jpg
It would also be great if we could build them as well.

[Gracious]

Yes I would like to see chocobo's, airships, and a main city.

[potman]

Definitely need chocobo's !

[Xzen]

Yay! The most important thread is back on page 1!

[Randelmire]

I agree that one feature that should be added ASAP is chocobos.

Even if at first it is only to travel faster, please add them!

[Xedonius]

Best topic *BUMP*

[obaley]

Best topic *BUMP*

agreed. make it happen Yoshi.

[Daniel_Hiroshi]

I like the chocobo breeding and having them as your own personal transport, but please could rip FFVII and have chocobo racing in the game. Give us a mini game to rob us of gil and keep us addicted. A goldsaucer with unique items you can only get through stupid amounts of play time in rigged slots. The game in my opinion is crying out for these mini games and having chocobo racing would be a shameless rip from vii, but it would be so awesome nobody would care.