How should they implement Chocobos?

[Laughlyn]

I want option as mage to teleport (maybe time mage spells, just another reason to level something else)
And chocobos as battle mounts only, possibly for racing, training, upgrading, leveling it so its Pimp & ready for battle.
Also id like to name the damn thing.... something like... maybe Bob!

Mounts... guess it would cool, but after collection tons of them in WoW before i quit... urrr...
i dont like hearing the word mount anymore, unless i get to choose from Chocobo, Coblyn or a Dodo mount.
(wich i'd prolly pick a Coblyn ofc, cuz they the shitz!)

Final idea, if ever implemented... give Beastmaster the option to charm,
train & option to sell charmed mobs as Mounts.

Not all mobs thou... dont wanna ride a cactuar...that would be such a pain in the...

[Duelle]

More emphasis on player-owned chocobos without the waste that was FFXI's chocobo raising system. If they HAVE to implement raising/taming (as much as I don't want them to), they really need to make a baseline chocobo available to those who want to move around but don't want to play the RNG-dominated raising game.

[Nipa]

Western MMO player eh?

I don't know what you mean by western MMO, but I tend to dislike the so-called Korean grind-fests, yeah.

No, your idea is bad, that would ruin the game and make the world feel small and boring.

The world *is* small and boring right now. Hiding that behind slow and cumbersome transportation is only a cheap solution. SE has enough money to apply the real solution: get to work and create real zones, of decent sizes and varieties.

But I admit once you played Vanguard everything feels small. Yet FF14 doesn't even feel small, it seems utterly tiny at the moment.

I want them to concentrate on that: building a large world, filled with content, instead of engineering tricks to make the ridiculous amount of existing content longer to complete.

Please not I have nothing against a pokemon-like chocobo raising mini-game in the game. As long as it's not mandatory and done after the transportation/world size/content problems are solved.

[gifthorse]

Because it'd be an awesome form of PvP? Because having a structured game system around racing beats "Hey guys first one to the tree wins 100 gil!"

Don't think it's very outlandish to be honest.

structure! *shudder*

[Chezen]

I dunno why people cry so much about chocobos, seriously, until SE put real content in coerthas and mor dhona i dont see any use for chocs. Those teleports are more than enough for now, not to mention cities cost half anima regen is faster and 3 favored camps to chose. So many lazy people out there. =/

I can't speak for others, but for me it's less to do with transportation and more to do with they are cute.

I hope they have red chocobos.

[gifthorse]

I hope it's a system where you can call a Chocobo and it'll come running up next to you, enabling you to target it. From there you can either choose to mount up or arrange items between your saddlebags and character inventory and maybe even customize the gear your mount is wearing.

That would be awesome.

[Dreamer]

Mages with teleport? That's a bad idea. It may work in other games, but you have to remember that most people are going to have a high level mage class, meaning essentially everyone will have access to teleport, which will be even worse than the current situation. Give us airships and chocobos with a proper implementation, and a teleport feature of any kind will be completely unnecessary.

[ToubaboKoomi]

Not a fan of mounted combat. Raising is a must though

[zoekwon]

mounted combat would be terrible.

[Zhyrios]

I dunno why people cry so much about chocobos, seriously, until SE put real content in coerthas and mor dhona i dont see any use for chocs. Those teleports are more than enough for now, not to mention cities cost half anima regen is faster and 3 favored camps to chose. So many lazy people out there. =/

Because... Getting on a chocobo and riding to where you want to be... is lazier than just teleporting? I miss something here?