DevTalk: Chocobo Thread. Riding! Raising! Racing! You Know You Want Your Fix

[Platinumstorm]

Not to be a jerk, but I always think it's amazing that people are looking for fluff features like "fix the physics of belts", sometimes it rains when I'm in a cave; fix this before the end of the year!, and other such things before the game is even ready for a launch.

I definitely appreciate fluff, but core stuff is five million times more important than fluff right now.

[Morphemes]

GIMMIE GOLDEN CHOCOBOS THAT WORK FOR DINNER

[Godryc]

To earn your chocobo license I'd like to see a small quest chain. All of the quests would involve using a chocobo in some way.

The first quest could be something simple since I suppose that you're supposed to be learning to ride. So maybe something like an escort mission riding along with a merchant caravan as a guard.

After that maybe things like a tutorial-ish quest that introduces you to all the aspects of renting and owning chocobos (feeding, breeding, equipping etc). Again keeping things to an introduction to basic actions, mentioning that there is more depth but leaving it there for you to investigate more later when you can actually breed them and what not.

Other possible activities could really be anything. A story line could be established with that first merchant escort quest and you get contacted(mail system anyone?) to help said merchant once more. It would be best to provide a variety of tasks so maybe now its the wagon or whatever has broken down and there will be a full out, timed defense you can do. This would be best for parties, maybe even be very difficult to do without a party?

Anyways just wanted to put that out there, obviously the possibilities are many. I think this will be a great opportunity for SE to make one of those milestones that I always hear people talking about. And not just in the sense of obtaining the license but more in that the experience of GETTING the license was so memorable that its just as much a part of the milestone as the license itself.

[Kiara]

Hi Renta,

Fantastic thread that needs bumping. Especially in light of Yoshida-san bringing up the topic of raising your own Chocobos in your personal Garden (from his lengthy Gathering Post today).

Hopefully he implements some of these great ideas here!

[Neffie]

Can't wait for chocobos to be implemented! I want to breed, ride and race! Chocobos? Yes please!

[Leonesaurus]

Excellent ideas! I think implementing Chocobo breeders as a Disciple of Beasts class or something would enable players to raise their own birds, buy/sell saddles (TAN), armor (ARM), and Chocobo feed (CUL) from respected crafts. Also, being able to equip your bird with gear for a unique feel and look and even have the chance to sell them for profit.

Chocobo Riding Emotes would be really cool too!

[Zorano]

Add auto-pilot to the chocobo you have raised as advanced feature and add command like

/goto <camp or leader>

maybe you will have to take your chocobo to all different areas to teach him how to reach each place.

[Rentahamster]

Add auto-pilot to the chocobo you have raised as advanced feature and add command like

/goto <camp or leader>

maybe you will have to take your chocobo to all different areas to teach him how to reach each place.

Hmm, that's actually a pretty neat idea. If you level up your chocobo and train it to get from camp to camp, why not give the player an auto-pilot button?

It would introduce another goal for chocobo training, and most people like to ride just to take in the scenery anyway. It's not like an auto-pilot function would be exploitable or anything.

I really like the ideas. And about other mounts, there really isn't a point in my opinion, because if they give us enough customization then you will see personalized mounts running all over the place and they wont look the same at all other then the fact they they are all birds lol.

I really like the ideas, i think the lvls are right because that would make people want to rank up their characters. I'm all for this ^_^

Thanks, Risa

[Rjain]

I'd really like to see chocobo breeding and racing and any other innovative stuff.

I swear if they implement anything other than chocobo mounts that may be a complete deal-breaker for me. That was by far the most annoying thing that pissed me off in WoW was everyone's obnoxious mounts.

More love for chocobos needed.

[Rentahamster]

I swear if they implement anything other than chocobo mounts that may be a complete deal-breaker for me.

Despite my love for variety and choice, I feel that for the Final Fantasy universe, the only mounts are Chocobos. That being the case, I think we can make it so that with genetic diversity along with gear diversity, we can have a great variety of customizable chocobos.

Nice comments so far, I really want to hear from more hardcore FF11 chcocobo raisers about what they liked and what they didn't like about the system.