Will Mounts be able to jump?

[Alhanelem]

The only issue I have with making different colored chocobos have different abilities is that you get into the whole color=stats thing we had with gear that nobody liked. If you bred for abilities/colors separately it would be great.

Different functionality != different stats. In other games, e.g. FFT A2, different chocobo colors had different functions, almost different jobs even. It's more like customizing the automaton in FFXI- e.g. the black chocobos would fly, yellow ones had a healing ability, red ones had a fire attack, etc. They're distinct enough that each one has value. If it was just stats I would agree, but different breeds of chocobos did different things in previous games. There's a precedent for that.

[Estellios]

Different functionality != different stats. In other games, e.g. FFT A2, different chocobo colors had different functions, almost different jobs even. It's more like customizing the automaton in FFXI- e.g. the black chocobos would fly, yellow ones had a healing ability, red ones had a fire attack, etc. They're distinct enough that each one has value. If it was just stats I would agree, but different breeds of chocobos did different things in previous games. There's a precedent for that.

Yeah, I remember spamming the MP restore with the white chocobo =P

It's part of the series "legacy" so to speak so I think in most cases people would like it. I'm just wondering how many would cry over the fact that their black chocobo can't be a healer and they really want to use the black one because it matches their outfit or something. If anything it would be nice if different breeds had different native abilities but you could pass them on to other-colored offspring so you could customize but there is value in making them all unique.