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

[Munba]

Thanks renta! Awesome news.. especially '5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo'.

Also a hint about Gardening in housing.

[Rentahamster]

Thanks renta! Awesome news.. especially '5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo'.

Thanks for the translation Rentahamster.

Yer welcome ^^

Going to repost this through any appropriate channels 'cause I'm a narcissistic asshole(but seriously, just think about it):

Interesting possible game mechanics. Something to think of down the line, I guess, but like Yoshida said, baby steps.

[Davorok]

I liked the idea in FFXI of training your raised chocobo to excel in certain traits ie., Speed, Endurance, Digging, etc., but the actual training as implemented stunk like choco-doodoo.

Since Yoshi is thinking of several things you could do with your chocobo maybe he can implement a better stat raising system.

1. Calling a personal chocobo: Train your choco to increase usage ie., more areas allowed and more "calls" allowed.

2. Riding a personal chocobo: Train your choco to increase maximum riding time (endurance) and speed.

3. Walking alongside a personal chocobo: Train your choco to carry items like a pack mule (expandable) and learn to "Dig" for treasure and possibly alert you to dangers/NMs in the area (but not rideable if over max weight)

4. Raising and dressing up a personal chocobo: Train choco for merchant use or military use and associated gears (each path has it own benefits and drawbacks).

5. Fighting along with a personal chocobo: If choco is Military Trained you can ride it in battle. If it is Merchant Trained, choco will perform simple peck attacks to assist you.

Lots of great ideas on this thread. Let's hope they implement some of them...eventually.

[leomax]

epic news, so excited even if years away but omg houses, gardens, walking with chocobo awwwww and possibly fighting wow <3333 YP

[Jmeat]

Thanks for the translation Rentahamster.

[Shneibel]

freaking awesome

edit : I wonder if there ll be different type of chocobo will be add while they code, as either different chocobo color or maybe different in speciality ?

[Ashthra]

Please give me chocobo breeding/racing. That was my crack in FFVII.

[Shneibel]

breeding ? chocobo farm ?

[rachelqueen]

i loved my chocobo in 11 please give me one back, to raise, ride and love, but can i have diff from just yellow please maybe fkecks diff colour in be nice... i also miss my npc pal like mad as i soloed loads, but solo sucks on this.... can i have her back to lol

[Kwisatz_Haderach]

I like the idea of specific mounts for jobs. I wonder if they could implement both ideas. They could have regular chocos for any class, but specific mounts for specific jobs. The reason I'm so interested in this is because it allows the possibility of one of my dream jobs in FFXI Wings of the Goddess which never came to fruition which was the Chocobo Knight. My idea was that the job would act as a "pet style" job that would "call" his pet which would be a mount and then would participate in battle atop their mount. The job would use a spear type weapon and the player would attack from his mount. The player would also be given a pet equipment slot(s) to place choco armor like a breast plate or helmet.