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

[Katie]

Wow Renta, I simply could not agree more. This concept sounds amazing. I would like to add some ideas to the mix as well.

Oh, one thing I would change about your post is that instead of the Chocobo Racer having to retire after just two months of hard work. Why not make it degrade? That way you can prepare yourself for another (Newer) racer instead of being out of competition all together. Just a thought!

Anyway Here is what i'd like to add/change:

New DoL: Chocobo Breeder
New DoH: Chocobo Outfiter
New DoH: Chocobo Trainer

Think about it! AND YES if this does come into play Chocobo customization is an absolute must in an MMO, Especially if it is the only mount avaliable!!!

[Katie]

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.

One more thing. Don't let the concept of having mounts other than Chocobos completely turn you off. Think about this:

What if they implemented something like XIII. (Hear me out)

Determend by the Guardian you chose at the Character Creation and the starting class chosen, determaned your summon/mount.

As an example, say you chose
---Halone the Fury and Pugilist, your summon mount unique to that: Ixion
---Byregot and Miner determaned that you'd get: Alexander.

Just an idea. But think about how the characters in XIII rode their unique mounts. I'm not nessisarly saying they'd have to be classic FF summons either, they could add different creatures or newer summons altogether.

Also, you could only obtain this kind of mount at a very high rank. To coincide with the story you could unlock said inner summon at R50. That way a Chocobo would have it's staple position until endgame. You could even go as far as requiring your chosen class at R50 to get your epic mount. Idk, just ideas!

My point is, I believe that the idea of alternate mounts beyond Chocobo could be a neat concept. Keep an open mind!

[Rentahamster]

Wow Renta, I simply could not agree more. This concept sounds amazing. I would like to add some ideas to the mix as well.

Katie!

Thanks for the comments <3

Oh, one thing I would change about your post is that instead of the Chocobo Racer having to retire after just two months of hard work. Why not make it degrade? That way you can prepare yourself for another (Newer) racer instead of being out of competition all together. Just a thought!

Yeah, that's an interesting thought - I was actually thinking about that too when I was constructing my first post. The reason I decided against that was because all of the hardcore racers would just ditch their racing chocobo at the first sign of degradation, anyway. I figure that as long as there's a counter or something that lets you know how much time you have left to race your chocobo, you'll have plenty of time to raise or buy a new one to replace your old one when the time comes. As long as you buy the standard Chocobo stable, you'll have 4 slots to hold Chocobos and get fresh, new ones when needed.

Anyway Here is what i'd like to add/change:

New DoL: Chocobo Breeder
New DoH: Chocobo Outfiter
New DoH: Chocobo Trainer

Think about it! AND YES if this does come into play Chocobo customization is an absolute must in an MMO, Especially if it is the only mount avaliable!!!

I was still thinking about wondering if chocobo raising and stuff should be their own classes, too. I dunno if they'd have enough stuff to do...still thinking about it.

Yes, and I totally agree about the variation. Just looking at all the various concept designs for Chocobos among all the Final Fantasy games, there is a lot of room for variation.

[Amineri]

Wow Renta, I simply could not agree more. This concept sounds amazing. I would like to add some ideas to the mix as well.

Oh, one thing I would change about your post is that instead of the Chocobo Racer having to retire after just two months of hard work. Why not make it degrade? That way you can prepare yourself for another (Newer) racer instead of being out of competition all together. Just a thought!

Anyway Here is what i'd like to add/change:

New DoL: Chocobo Breeder
New DoH: Chocobo Outfiter
New DoH: Chocobo Trainer

Think about it! AND YES if this does come into play Chocobo customization is an absolute must in an MMO, Especially if it is the only mount available!!!

I really like the idea of adding some new DoL/DoH classes surrounding chocobos. Fantastic idea!

Hopefully you won't mind if I toss in some thoughts/ideas in this regard

DoL - To my mind DoL is all about going out into the wilds and creating materials / items out of nothing. Chocobo Breeder sounds cool, but, well... a breeder makes new chocobos by combining two existing items... a pair of chocobos you already have . A DoL that went out into the wilds and found chocobo eggs in nests of wild chocobos would be (to my mind) a perfect fit for a DoL class. Might be a little too restrictive, so perhaps it could be rolled up into the cancelled Shepherd class. A shepherd could find chocobo eggs in nests, find dodo eggs, pluck feathers from dodos, milk aldgoats, shear fleece from sheep, all sorts of ideas pop into mind.

DoH - Chocobo outfitter could become it's own class, but it could also add new recipes to the existing classes. Tanners could make saddles, weavers make barding, armorers make chocobo armor, culinarians make chocobo feed (for both raising young and in the field), alchemists could make illegal performance boosters. It escapes my creativity now, but I think even blacksmiths, goldsmiths and carpenters could contribute something to equipping the chocobos.

Chocobo trainer -- a definite win. Could incorporate both the breeding of chocobos as well as the training and caring of them. Sadly I didn't play XI, so I can't compare to that game's system.

Hopefully I added something positive to your ideas ^.^

[ObeiKinstar]

Love it! Great ideas!

[Rentahamster]

There's a thread on the Japanese side about what kind of mounts you want to see besides chocobos. Mocchi stopped by for a dev post.

こんにちは。

色々なアイディアありがとうございます。吉田と話をしてきまして、個人用のマウントに関して皆さんから大量に乗りたいもののご意見を頂いて、人気の高いものについてガチで導入検討してもらえるよう話をつけてきました。

世界観的にちょっと…とかいうのは開発チームに決めてもらえば良いことですので、皆さんの自由な発想のもと、エオルゼアで何に乗りたいですか？というのを欲望のおもむくままに挙げてください！

余計なことを言って変な方向性がついちゃうといけないので例は挙げませんが、1点だけ、個人用の乗り物（何らかの方法で呼び出すなどして移動するための騎乗物）としてのアイディアをいただけますと幸いです。

あーこれいいねと思ったら「いいね！」のクリックもお忘れなく

In short, he said he talked to Yoshida about everyone's opinion regarding what kind of personal mount they want to ride.

It's up to the team to decide, but they want to hear from the players as to what they want to ride.

Checking just now, he just posted another comment in another mount thread.

こんにちは。

早速乗り物に関するコメントありがとうございます。
乗り物については、個人用の乗り物（いわゆるマウント）から交通機関的なものまで、いくつかの系統を提供していくことを想定しており、今後のプロデューサーレターなどで、開発チームのコンセプトをご紹介していきたいと思います。

ただ、それはまだ結構先の事になってしまいそうですので、今の時点で皆さんから多数の希望を募集したい事項として「（個人のマウントとして）何に乗りたいですか？」というのを広くコメントいただきたいと思います。

FFですからチョコボに乗れるのは当たり前。ではその他には……？

もしこの点でご希望がありましたら、こちらのスレッドでどしどしお寄せください。

その他、マウントシステム全般に関するご意見や提案については、引き続きこのスレッドでお願いします！

It basically asks the same thing as the other post: asking players to comment about what they want to ride. There is an additional comment that "Because this is Final Fantasy, riding chocobos is a given. But other than that...?".

In the first thread, it seems as if Magitek armor is pretty popular.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post149550
That suggestion has 47 likes already.

Now, personally, I again repeat my preference that all personal land-based mounts be chocobo only since we are, of course, in the Final Fantasy universe. Being able to ride dodos or coblyns, or goats would be kinda dumb, in my opinion.

I do kinda see the appeal of magitek armor, and I probably would be okay with that since we do have the technology of the Garlean Empire in this universe. However - they need to be relegated to transportation only. No battle capability like we see in FF6. The reason being is because I think that it would cause too much disruption to regular battle balance. Trying to balance magitek combat with normal combat would be a nightmare and while it might look cool, it would potentially cause a LOT of problems.

[Teknoman]

If we can only access certain areas via magitek armor, im for it.

[Jinko]

Don't want to see Magitek at all really.

I think Lalafell would look awesome on Dodo's.

[RisaCooper]

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 ^_^

[uzu]

Really like this thread. I would also be interested in Chocobo digging being added. Need more mindless gathering grind.