Quote Originally Posted by Ayuhra View Post
It would be nice to get the Chocobo sooner but it's the same amount of gameplay even if the levels are flying by.

The issue with Chocobos right now is the whistle is obtained from your Grand Company which is hard gated behind the MSQ. Maybe they could make it available in Bentbranch Meadows? But then the default barding would have to change.
Ah yes, I forgot to mention this. It would take some reworking of the storyline to allow acquiring mounts earlier.

Chocobo porters also allow renting a chocobo to ride yourself starting from level 10. Details on this seem to be scarce, but I assume you get to ride it until you dismount.

Quote Originally Posted by SenorPatty View Post
Teleportation for newbies can get expensive if they're the type to explore everything about in an area. Hell, last night on my alt, I was restricting myself to msq and job quest only and I had about 3-5 "mandatory" teleports, each costing over 500 gil. Now, luckily for me, all my created chrs come with 100 teleport tickets so I save those for the costlier teles but I can see how this can drain a newbie's wallet, especially on a preferred world where you unlock more sidequests faster.
Out of curiosity, how many and which quests were those? Over 500 gil per teleport is basically 'porting between the major Eorzean cities; I seem to recall the fee between Gridania and Ul'dah being around 350 gil and between Gridania and Limsa Lominsa just over 600 gil. Teleports internal to a region are in the 100-300 gil range. There's a few points in the storyline where the quests have you hopping all over the world, but for the most part they tend to stick in the same region for a while. Doing job quests at the same time can certainly mix it up though.

Early main scenario quests give around 200 gil per quest (although some relatively simple quests give nothing), and around level 20 it seems to jump to 1000 gil or more. Since there's usually a few main scenario quests plus a bunch of side quests at the same location, it should be easy to earn more than the teleport fee before moving to the next location.