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

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Seems relevant again. Discuss!

[Reinheart]

From my translation thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post225261
Chocobo Riding coming in 1.19 - Chocobo raising (possible but no release date info yet, only confirmation they are working on it.)

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Raika started a thread about raising pets, gardening, summons and any other ideas people had and Rep responded with the following

ペット・栽培・養殖・召喚などの育成システム要望スレ

Pet, Gardening, Fish Farming. Summon like raising system ideas thread.

連れて歩けるペットを育てられるられるとか
戦闘で使う「からくり」を作れるとか
モンスターをテイム出来るとか
ＦＦ１０とかＦＦ１２のような感じの召喚獣で変わりに戦ってくれるとか
園芸師が畑で作物を育てられるとか
漁師が海でサンマ養殖出来るとか
採掘師が山でコブラン飼育出来るとか
Raising a pet that you can go out with.
Making a robot that can fight in battles (like FFXI puppet master)
Like FF10 or FF12 where your summoned avatar fights for you.
Gardener being able to grow your own vegetables in a garden.
Fisher being able to raising fish in a fish pond (fish farming)
Miner being able to raising cobran in the mountain

こんにちは。
Hello,

ペットの実装について吉田Pに聞いてみたところ、2つの方向性を考えているとのことでした。
I have asked Yoshida Producer regarding implementation of pets, he is thinking of 2 methods for this.

ひとつは誰もが乗ることのできるチョコボなどを育成するようなコンテンツにおけるペット。
もうひとつが特定のジョブだけが従えることのできるペットです。
One being pets where you can raise pets and ride such as Chocobo.
Another being pets where certain jobs can control (probably like BST from FFXI)

この2つはどちらか一方を実装するのではなく、両方とも実装できるように仕様検討を行っているとのことでした。ただ実装時期はまだまだお知らせできる段階ではないため、まずはパッチ1.19で実装予定のチョコボに跨りつつ、お待ちいただければと思います。
They are looking into it so they can implement both features and not only one. But for now we are not at a point where we can give more information, so for now first with Chocobo in 1.19 patch and if you could please wait.

[Rentahamster]

The dawn of the Age of Chocobo draws near. My body is ready.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Do you guys think there should/will be a time limit? For those unaware of what I am talking about, in previous FFs you could only ride a chocobo for a certain time before it would kick you off basically. Also, how frequent will they be in location? Perhaps at quest hubs and towns?

[Eldaena]

Do you guys think there should/will be a time limit? For those unaware of what I am talking about, in previous FFs you could only ride a chocobo for a certain time before it would kick you off basically. Also, how frequent will they be in location? Perhaps at quest hubs and towns?

Maybe it depends on if you raise it or rent it?

[Rentahamster]

Updated OP with the new info regarding 1.19 chocobos.

[Rentahamster]

Yoshi-P has been chatting about some of the planned chocobo features for the future:

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。

まず、チョコボについては一回のアップデートで終わらずに、
期間をかけて「コンテンツ化」していこうと考えています。
（時間貸しのチョコボとは別）
簡単にイメージを書くと…

1.マイチョコボを呼べる
2.マイチョコボに乗って移動
3.マイチョコボを連れ歩く
4.マイチョコボを育てる/着せ替えする
5.マイチョコボと一緒に戦える

こんな感じです。仕様は吉田自身で作りましたが、
現時点では実装不能な仕様もあります。ハードルが結構高い…
一気に実装は時間がかかりすぎるので、まずは移動として1と2から始めます。
これがパッチ1.19の予定です。デザインはいずれレターで公開します＾＾

ペットクラスはそれこそ、召喚タイプからテーミングタイプまで、
まだまだ検討段階ですので、どれからいくか、であり、
ひとつに絞る気はないです。どっちもあってよいです。
ただ、バトル改修、クラスバランス調整、Jobシステム実装を考えると、
先にはなりますので、皆さんのアイデアもじっくり拝見していこうかと思ってます。

栽培とかは、するなら庭が欲しいですよねえ、庭の前に家ですねとか言ってみるテスト（ﾎﾞｿ

First of all the implementation of Chocobos will not be complete with only one update. This will be a gradual process of content iteration, aside from the chocobo rentals. This is what I'm envisioning for now:


1. Calling a personal chocobo
2. Riding a personal chocobo
3. Walking alongside a personal chocobo
4. Raising and dressing up a personal chocobo
5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo

Something like that. I made those plans myself, but at the present time implementing all of that is impossible since the repairs to the battle system are our main priority.
To implement all these chocobo plans at once would take up too much time, so we are only going to start rolling it out bit by bit. This is the plan with path 1.19, and I'll write a letter sometime later to explain everything.

Regarding pet classes, from summoning pets to taming pets, we are still in the preliminary planning stages, so we don't know which direction we're going to tackle first yet. Either way would be fine. We still need to do all the battle system fixes, class balance adjustments, and implement the job system first before anything else, so we will be looking at any ideas you have for us.

I want to have garden content. Having a house in front of a garden would be nice, huh...let's try test it out.

[Munba]

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

Also a hint about Gardening in housing.

[leomax]

epic news, so excited even if years away but omg houses, gardens, walking with chocobo awwwww and possibly fighting wow <3333 YP

[Jmeat]

Thanks for the translation Rentahamster.