[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[Rjain]

1) WoW is not the only game to have a variety of mounts available.

This is a Final Fantasy game first, an MMO second.

2) You run out of chocobo colors and then what?

Who gives a shit? Better than seeing a ton of different obnoxious mounts like in WoW. That fact sickened me (and that's coming from someone who had almost every single mount in the game). You can have TONS of different chocobo colours and colour variations, and you could customize armor for the chocobos too. The possibilities are endless. Don't think in a closed box.

3) Chocobo raising was terrible in implementation and concept. To reiterate: You do not design a system to waste an entire month's worth of the player's time to get only a chocobo that has less stamina and runs slower than the rentals and is temperamental as all hell.

You can implement chocobo breeding differently than what was presented in XI and without making it as much of a total timesink, and make them more easily obtainable. Perhaps through quests or through a system similar to FF9 after raising your chocobo.