Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

[Evangela]

too complicated and gil sinking.

another disappointment. this game keeps making me dislike it more and more. what's next? grinding something 100 hours for a new hairstyle?

[MikefriedSpes]

I don't see how it is gil sinking when all you need to do is buy soil and be able to garden. Also #colorstoohard

[Yahavage]

I want an orange one \o/ I'm grateful to everyone going out there and being test subjects, I'm hopefully going to be able to free up one of our patches tonight to get started!

[zandervont]

Fed my chocobo 36x of all 3 "Lightening" feeds so gonna see how it turns out in a while, about 3-4 hours.

[HEC-]

Fed my chocobo 36x of all 3 "Lightening" feeds so gonna see how it turns out in a while, about 3-4 hours.

I'm sorry to say so but you've just wasted 35 out of those 36 fruits. Only first one will apply the colour change, next could be used (and registered) after 6 hours. But indeed I applause to your courage!

Also - you can see my today's harvesting results of chocobo colouring food at The Big Gardening thread

Okay so Desert Yellow (default chocobo colour) appears to be 255 R 255 G 50ish B. You cannot deepen R or G any further and you can only lighten them. I tried feeding fruit in bulk to the chocobo and got results for everything but deepening those two values. It now tells me my chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers. So, within 6 hours, you can bulk feed a colour combination you desire I believe.

Now the question is if those are stacking or overwriting each other (e.g. only the last one fed will affect the actual colour change)? While we all hope for former I'm still affraid it's the latter ... At least with the current yield and fast grow it's fairly inexpensive to test it.

Also, why do people keep saying that prices on these should drop or whatever, aren't both the seeds and the fruits untradeable? (Going by XIVDB).

XIVDB is wrong (as in many other times) - I'm still amazed how people rely on unofficial sources / DBs while we have perfectly valid official DB at Lodestone ... (while other unofficial DBs might have more advanced search / comparefunctions they are often outdated / incorrect).

[Pterois]

I'm sorry to say so but you've just wasted 35 out of those 36 fruits. Only first one will apply the colour change, next could be used (and registered) after 6 hours.

although it seems obvious... we don't know for sure. Thank You zander for doing what i would have been itching to do lol. except the mental image of shoving 36 fruits down your chocos face hole screaming "WHY WON"T YOU CHANGE" is making me giggle.

edit: and to everyone saying this is to complicated... lol.... just smh lol.

[Magnesium02]

I don't see how it is gil sinking when all you need to do is buy soil and be able to garden. Also #colorstoohard

Not everyone has access to FC gardens, mate. If the FC can only afford a small house then they only have one plot to play with. And some FCs might have permission set up so that only the master or officers have access to the garden so people dont mess up weeks of crossbreeding. And even if they do have access to a garden, one person might be dominating the use of it, leaving no room for people to come along and plant things for themselves.

So not as easy as "be able to garden"

[Ashgarth]

Not everyone has access to FC gardens, mate. If the FC can only afford a small house then they only have one plot to play with. And some FCs might have permission set up so that only the master or officers have access to the garden so people dont mess up weeks of crossbreeding. And even if they do have access to a garden, one person might be dominating the use of it, leaving no room for people to come along and plant things for themselves.

So not as easy as "be able to garden"

Well, the plants give quite a lot of fruits so the prices will be quite low i guess.

[Kajukai]

although it seems obvious... we don't know for sure. Thank You zander for doing what i would have been itching to do lol. except the mental image of shoving 36 fruits down your chocos face hole screaming "WHY WON"T YOU CHANGE" is making me giggle.


edit: and to everyone saying this is to complicated... lol.... just smh lol.

Change dah colour, if you don't want to dieeee!

[Pterois]

never mind how much it takes to get to garden (FC house and what not)

This process takes exactly 000.000000 gil if im not mistaken?

15 seals for seeds - easily mine-able soil - time

how exactly does that make this a gil sink?