Company Seals for your own chocobo THATS IT?!

[Teknoman]

hell, how did you get your chocobo in FFXI,

Rental:
go to Jeuno, buy guasebit grass from the AH, "feed" a chocobo for 5hrs. Yay you have "Proven your worth" through mighty sitting on you butt and not falling asleep (if you felt like sitting in game the whole time, I didn't I went and did something fun)

Personal:
Go to Jeuno (when they first released) buy an egg, go to one of the main city's stables, give them your egg, log out and come back in a week or month, Yay you now have a personal chocobo...so very challenging

Maybe, but werent personal chocobos that were purchased slower than rentals, unless you went through a decent breeding process/other things? Besides, we'll have plenty of time for things like that when we get to train our Chocobos for battle or whatever else they have planned.

[Pandastirfry]

Maybe, but werent personal chocobos that were purchased slower than rentals, unless you went through a decent breeding process/other things? Besides, we'll have plenty of time for things like that when we get to train our Chocobos for battle or whatever else they have planned.

not at first, orginally it was just luck of the draw if you got one of the colored ones. (you were more likely to get a colored one from a drop, than the purchased, but I still got a red for a purchased egg) Actual attributes to the chocobo didn't come until Breeding and Racing were introduced.

When XI first introduced personal chocobos they didn't have breeding that came in a later patch.

edit: Oh yeah and the actual attributes for you chocobo were affected by how much time you spent(wasted) in actually going and talking to your chocobo while it was still a chick. if you spent no time with it, it was AS fast as a rental, not slower.

[Estellios]

not at first, orginally it was just luck of the draw if you got one of the colored ones. (you were more likely to get a colored one from a drop, than the purchased, but I still got a red for a purchased egg) Actual attributes to the chocobo didn't come until Breeding and Racing were introduced.

When XI first introduced personal chocobos they didn't have breeding that came in a later patch.

edit: Oh yeah and the actual attributes for you chocobo were affected by how much time you spent(wasted) in actually going and talking to your chocobo while it was still a chick. if you spent no time with it, it was AS fast as a rental, not slower.

Actually personal chocobos started out slower than rentals. If you maxed out their speed you would go as fast as rentals.

[Pandastirfry]

Actually personal chocobos started out slower than rentals. If you maxed out their speed you would go as fast as rentals.

it's been awhile, so I don't remember all the details, much of XI's time wasti...I mean challenging content just got too much for me

[Estellios]

it's been awhile, so I don't remember all the details, much of XI's time wasti...I mean challenging content just got too much for me

Don't worry, I understand. Thinking about Dynamis puts me to sleep =P

That is a quest...

If that's a quest then so is pay seals > get chocobo.

[Kiote]

If that's a quest then so is pay seals > get chocobo.

Find Forest > Speak to Moogle about chocobo > catch chocobo > get chocobo

is a world apart from

Buy chocobo

Not that any of that is relevent because Most FFs didnt even give you a personal chocobo you had to catch a new one every time.

Nine and Eleven being the only exceptions.

[Reika]

Find Forest > Speak to Moogle about chocobo > catch chocobo > get chocobo

is a world apart from

Buy chocobo

Not that any of that is relevent because Most FFs didnt even give you a personal chocobo you had to catch a new one every time.

Nine and Eleven being the only exceptions.

And V, with Boco.

But the seals you need to buy a chocobo issuance dont just magically pop into your inventory when you create your character, you have to work for them. Thus you have to work for your chocobo. You have to work for rental chocobos too, a whole 10 ranks of work :P.

[Estellios]

Find Forest > Speak to Moogle about chocobo > catch chocobo > get chocobo

is a world apart from

Buy chocobo

Not that any of that is relevent because Most FFs didnt even give you a personal chocobo you had to catch a new one every time.

Nine and Eleven being the only exceptions.

Except you forget the part about needing seals and having to get a rank up through quests in order to get your chocobo. Sorry you are not a new player but if you look at it from a new player point of view there is enough progression before you get your own chocobo and the quests will be at their level.

[Reika]

Maybe, but werent personal chocobos that were purchased slower than rentals, unless you went through a decent breeding process/other things? Besides, we'll have plenty of time for things like that when we get to train our Chocobos for battle or whatever else they have planned.

Companies chocobo's are already raised to be used in war and set aside for company members, which is why they are faster than rentals.

Chocobos from eggs were just born and aren't as strong as a rental chocobo, which has had much more exercise.

Thats my reasoning for it anyways.