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

[Munba]

Thanks renta! Awesome news.. especially '5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo'.

Also a hint about Gardening in housing.

[Rentahamster]

Thanks renta! Awesome news.. especially '5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo'.

Thanks for the translation Rentahamster.

Yer welcome ^^

Going to repost this through any appropriate channels 'cause I'm a narcissistic asshole(but seriously, just think about it):

Interesting possible game mechanics. Something to think of down the line, I guess, but like Yoshida said, baby steps.

[Davorok]

I liked the idea in FFXI of training your raised chocobo to excel in certain traits ie., Speed, Endurance, Digging, etc., but the actual training as implemented stunk like choco-doodoo.

Since Yoshi is thinking of several things you could do with your chocobo maybe he can implement a better stat raising system.

1. Calling a personal chocobo: Train your choco to increase usage ie., more areas allowed and more "calls" allowed.

2. Riding a personal chocobo: Train your choco to increase maximum riding time (endurance) and speed.

3. Walking alongside a personal chocobo: Train your choco to carry items like a pack mule (expandable) and learn to "Dig" for treasure and possibly alert you to dangers/NMs in the area (but not rideable if over max weight)

4. Raising and dressing up a personal chocobo: Train choco for merchant use or military use and associated gears (each path has it own benefits and drawbacks).

5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo: If choco is Military Trained you can ride it in battle. If it is Merchant Trained, choco will perform simple peck attacks to assist you.

Lots of great ideas on this thread. Let's hope they implement some of them...eventually.