Golden Saucer Housing Impact?

[LineageRazor]

They could totally introduce new food, but I just don't see the point.

Well, the point would be exactly what this thread is all about: people gaining an unfair advantage by stockpiling items ahead of time. This is largely the reason why whenever SE adds new recipes to the game they are crafted using new items added at the same time. They want as many people as possible to start off on the same foot. No one is going to win the Chocobo Racing lottery by correctly speculating ahead of time which existing items are going to be key to Chocobo Racing in the future.

I very much expect that racing foods are going to be all-new. I'd even go so far to say that NONE of the currently existing foods will have any part in Chocobo Racing.

It still won't be COMPLETELY even, of course; if the new food items are grown, then people who own gardens (or people that have ungodly amounts of gil to throw at non-racing gardeners in exchange for their shiny new veggies) will have a distinct advantage in Chocobo Racing over people who don't. There's only so much SE can do to level the playing field - but they WILL try to level it.

[Nyalia]

Well, the point would be exactly what this thread is all about: people gaining an unfair advantage by stockpiling items ahead of time.

Except you can trade in casino points for the foods that affect the racing chocobos, as posted above. So, if people stockpile, they're doing themselves a disservice since the choco feed prices will tank after the patch, just like with any item that you can get via an NPC for a fixed price. Assuming the same foods are used, that is. If they're new items, then the old ones will tank anyway because people will stop speculating in the market just in case they're used.