Chocobo racing and MGP...

[RobinRethiel]

Greetings,

Thank you for the specific feedback regarding the process of raising your chocobo to the highest class rating, and MGP rewards for each class.

We’re planning to increase the amount of MGP obtained from chocobo races, so we'd like to ask you to wait just a bit longer.

Thanks for the response and bringing back some hope. Many people, who were dissapointed after the long waiting for Gold Saucer, because of the low MGP rewards and very high prizes, welcome it.

You can easily farm the hardest NPCs for MGP without ever spending a single MGP on card packs. I never bought a single pack and TT is a LOT faster MGP than winning every single race I sign up for.

But some people just want that cards (I don't need them, just explaining), even though they will not use them to play. RNG alone like Gaius can be very harsh. Linked to very high prices, it becomes devastating.

Uh? It is actually quite a significant difference. I can get 4.5k/hour on Indolent Imperial and only about half of that from Chocobo racing placing first 70% of the time. That is a significant difference. I would say that warrants the use of "A LOT", in caps.

Should actually be more like 20-30%. You can defeat the "Imp" in 30s, make it 40s with the other stuff, when you got 60 cards with a 99% success chance (1% Draw). A chocobo races needs at least 180s (with all what comes before and after) That alone is over four times longer. And at R-180 for example you get around... 140(?) when you win? That's 405 to 140 (IF you win the race). And the MGP from sold cards not even added yet.

I argue that there's even more RNG investment in Chocobo breeding than TT. In a SINGLE breeding (I am pedigree 4 now), I blew over 30k MGP in Grade 5 coverings trying to get ideal stats and hereditary skills. That's not including all the lethe water I've spent on the chocobo before it was retired. Every time a crap covering came up I lost 3.7k MGP. That's pure "invalidation" right there. I couldn't even progress past that stage till I got a good covering since you can't race with a retired chocobo and there's no real reason to keep ranking your birds past 40 in early pedigrees.

Yes, that's indeed a very big MGP sink. I don't even go for a perfect chocobo, only on the long term, I just want one, which is not crippled and able to actually win races (else it will get VERY annoying to bring it up to Rank 40 - and when the parents got terrible stats, you have to fight even more to get better ones after this). But even then, I got so many crippled chocobos, in RL I would sue this guys and call Greenpeace and PETA, because it seems like they torturing these pure birds behind those closed door or experiment on them. I more often saw Chocobos like these M * ** * * * F * * *** * * than anything else.

[nijian]

Me likey!!

[nysier]

They said the mini games were not supposed to be a way to really earn MGP, it's more of a time filler between doing other stuff. Ex: Que for choco race, go hit the mini game 2-4 times. Que as tank for WoD... well you have alot of tiem for that but you see what i'm saying

[Keoeson]

I argue that there's even more RNG investment in Chocobo breeding than TT. In a SINGLE breeding (I am pedigree 4 now), I blew over 30k MGP in Grade 5 coverings trying to get ideal stats and hereditary skills.

You're wasting MGP if you're using pedigree 5 coverings on lower grade chocobo and before you reach pedigree 8 it's even more of a waste trying to optimize the stats. I also have pedigree 4 chocobo but with 3 one star stats and I don't care, my goal for now is a pedigree 8 chocobo and each bad stat has 6% chance to make it there. I may not win every race, but I'm also not wasting MGP. It's you choice to blow your MGP on the one use licences instead of waiting a little and use multi use licences for more targeted breeding.

[Blackfire]

They said the mini games were not supposed to be a way to really earn MGP, it's more of a time filler between doing other stuff. Ex: Que for choco race, go hit the mini game 2-4 times. Que as tank for WoD... well you have alot of tiem for that but you see what i'm saying

People play TT while waiting for ques. 30-40sec to complete and hit commence if your que pops. much better investment that the mini games.

[CheshireKat]

This should be all the incentive you need.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

A piece of crap helmet?

[Seaverin]

I agree to the fact that choco racing needs an MGP reward increase, they should also tweek the random bonus at the end too coz the chances of getting it seems impossible esp. if you are first place. I gotten first place 10-20x at the lower ranks with mostly NPC jockeys and never gotten the bonus. I played TT, it wasn't that bad until I had to farm King, which became Trippy triad coz RNG wasn't being nice. DNF shouldnt receive any reward at all, i mean they could have just make the reward in a "diminishing" system, where as if you are last or DNF you get zero and x MGP as you finish in 7,6, 5, 4, 3rd place etc.

[Lilianne]

You don't get the bonus if you are in first. The bonus only is for exp for people ranked 2nd-8th.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Actually, 8th place doesn't get the bonus either. It's only 2nd to 7th that have a shot at it.