Chocobo Racing 2.55

[Aphel]

To be fair Kaeko, your Chocobo is a 20/20 racebird. Well at least we know that even if you have a perfect Choco your chances of winning in R300 are extremely high, just not 100%.

I'm at P9 too but my stats are far from perfect. Will have to breed lots more!

Are your stats all maxed out too?

[Nidelia]

I have a R300 perfect chocobo too, and yeah it's easier to win R300 now with the nerf of meteor drop rate. So I really don't know anything about lower race. But... Maybe I m a little greedy but... 403 MGP is still too low. If you consider the fact you need 30 sec to queue, plus the time to enter (and damn, see 3000 times the begging of the entering cutscene/cut it is ANNOYING as hell), plus 80-90 sec race time with max speed, plus time to WAIT than others finish... It takes easily 2min40 and you need to win. In 3min you can easily win 4 times against the imperial with 100% win rate if you have 60 cards. It's 360 MGP. If you calculate, Chocobo race is now more effective than Imperial trash farm... By less than 10% if you don't count card drop. After all the MGP/time I used to raise this chocobo... It will NEVER be more effective than Imperial farm... And that's really a shame in my eyes, even if I find chocobo races very entertaining.

[Alexiell]

What bugs me a little, is that by the time i have my 20 star chocobo, there might be more players with perfect R-300 chocobos that are farming MGP all day. With 2-3 other players it will be much harder to win and your average points will drop... Maybe its better to get a perfect R-240 (or whatever the previous racing class is) chocobo, where you will most likely have no competition XD But then again, i might as well play cards for MGP.

[Keoeson]

I can only compare directly R140 races and I did a few R160 before I retired that bird and I'm positively surprised about these changes. It had only one star in acceleration so it took its sweet time to get started and any rainy phases would be a disaster so I had problems to score in the top. After the patch I could far more easily catch up and score first or second more consistently. I also had Choco Ease and Choco Calm on that bird, so heavy and frenzy were not much of a threat and only meant I could finish many races with plenty of stamina to spare.
So personally I'm happy with the changes, many abilities were boosted and a sprint build is not the only option anymore (and has more risk to it now).

[Wizel]

My biggest issue is the NPC's seem to gun only for your choco and nothing else 80% of the time. I have seen NPC's not use any items even though they are packed with other NPC's but as soon as I go in to pass or get close, every item starts getting used, kind of unfair when the hold race is gunning for you. Also Frenzy is way to dang powerful now, until I can get something to resist it its just insane how much it cripples your stamina.

[JubjubTubs]

I have a R300 perfect chocobo too, and yeah it's easier to win R300 now with the nerf of meteor drop rate. So I really don't know anything about lower race. But... Maybe I m a little greedy but... 403 MGP is still too low. It will NEVER be more effective than Imperial farm... -snipped-

Agreed. 403 is nice. But they should have factored all the time, mgp, and gil it takes to make a G9 that can handle R-300 successfully. Jubs was hoping for a flat 500... over a reasonable amount of time, the effort would have paid off over the much, much easier Imperial-spam.

[RobinRethiel]

Or maybe just some other prices, like in FF7. Beside the achievements, you don't get much for all the work to get a Pedigree 9 Chocobo.

[beanboy]

<<<Here's what happened. Jubs expected to see more people doing racing after needed and welcomed MGP/xp buffs. Saw some... didn't stick around. And now see'ing vets walking away from racing. If your objective was to bury racing into the ground and create LESS interest than before... mission accomplished, SE.

These other problems with the buffed attack items I haven't really seen because I tested out Choco Racing post-patch and the xp was only increased by 20%. That's still WAAAYYYYY too slow advancement for me. I'm not willing to have to win 3-5 races or place in 5-8 race to get a single rank up in just the rank 30s - especially as I've read that it gets worse after you breed a higher pedigree chocobo.

[beanboy]

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I understand that some players have a wealth of time and would get rank 9 chocos really fast if it were designed to have progression in-line with a single player game, but without faster progression, I get bored of the same maps with the same layouts and I feel like I'm wasting my time. After all, I'm just racing the chocobo to get a better chocobo, the MGP gain while steady isn't worth the effort. You can Triple Triad and get MGP much, much faster if you care about the aesthetic items. I don't really, so I'm just racing to race and improve my racing chocobo so it isn't tuned for me. With the prevention to keep people from afk grinding, the races have become a wasteland.

[beanboy]

. . . i might as well play cards for MGP.

Yeah. Don't chocobo race for MGP. That would be a ridiculous waste of time.