Gardening Issue with Chocobo Raising

[RedAntares]

Imagine when they introduce the chocobo color change feature... I'm sure it will require an insane amount of grind to change the feathers of our little friends from what I've seen in this patch.

I don't even want to start thinking about what mumbo-jumbo they are going to make us do in order to enjoy the Golden Saucer when it comes out.

[Tupsi]

He already stated you change the plume color by feeding it an item, far less work than FFIX/FFVII/FFXI breeding (thus more accessible to people who want to do it asap.) Since as we know color usually = ability and traits on a chocobo, so there wouldn't be any work involved.

[Kinseykinz]

So 3 days into patch:

I reside in Ward 4 of the goblet.
28/30 homes are purchased.
Of those 28 homes, only 10 even have a garden currently growing something. (and of those 10, not all of them are using the 'biggest' garden or as many as their plot size allows).

...22/28 Have chocobo sheds.

So my point: People aren't even growing/attempting to grow chocobo food (just like they didn't try to plant before very often). This is the main reason the demand will be far greater than the supply. If more of those FC's would even just grow the Krakka Root, life would be better. (Sure it offers no bonus stat but it's still food and helps exp).

[Lionhand]

So 3 days into patch:

I reside in Ward 4 of the goblet.
28/30 homes are purchased.
Of those 28 homes, only 10 even have a garden currently growing something. (and of those 10, not all of them are using the 'biggest' garden or as many as their plot size allows).

...22/28 Have chocobo sheds.

So my point: People aren't even growing/attempting to grow chocobo food (just like they didn't try to plant before very often). This is the main reason the demand will be far greater than the supply. If more of those FC's would even just grow the Krakka Root, life would be better. (Sure it offers no bonus stat but it's still food and helps exp).

or Thavnarian onions

[Angel_Kitty]

Here's how you calculate magic stable broom price=
1 Glazenut + 1 Broombush + 5 bamboo sticks / 20


On our server, someone brought price down to 75k. So as long as brooms get below 125k, it will be more reasonable for people to purchase them than buy a new choco stable.

[Kinseykinz]

Here's how you calculate magic stable broom price=
1 Glazenut + 1 Broombush + 5 bamboo sticks / 20


On our server, someone brought price down to 75k. So as long as brooms get below 125k, it will be more reasonable for people to purchase them than buy a new choco stable.

We had some listed at 35-40kish if I remember correctly today. The brooms will most likely either be plenty cheap to outright buy as needed or easy enough to dedicate 1-2 FC gardening batches to and overstocking on. (20 brooms per nut/bush/5sticks isn't really a bad deal. ) Keeping the stables clean is important though as I saw about a 25% exp increase with a 'Good' stable over 'Fair'

The only delays/expense will likely be in the special ability foods as people will first have to figure out cross-breeding for them, then this information will have to become widely known, then people will need a couple rounds to grow enough said veggies to = enough supply.

But again, every single FC can grow basic Krakka Roots right now. Yes, there's better food. No this will not break your Rank caps as it's the wrong food. But it'll do. And it'll work just fine until the cross-breeding information is known. And lastly, your Challenge Log still is probably the best single source of sexy quick chocobo exp/week you can find.

[ThomasGallant]

Someone found a Tantaplant seed, so one of the special chocobo foods have been found, at least in seed form. dond't know how they did it or who it was, but it's up on the AH for 2 mil on my server.

[Nukocafe]

I just wanted to say that after only about 3 days of usage between 4 people, our chocobo stable went from Fair to Poor.
I'm shocked because that means you will burn through these brooms at least 2-3 times a week and it takes nearly 3 weeks to crossbreed all the broombrush/glazenuts to make them.

What a disappointing feature that was supposed to be a fun and casual addition to the housing.

[Estellios]

I was worried about producing chocobo food but Krakka root seeds give 9 pieces of food by default and 18 if you use grade 3 shroud soil. They also grow super quick, it takes about 3 days. That's 144 pieces of food from an 8-plant plot every few days. As was mentioned, one synth of the brooms gives you enough of them for over a month and now that the crossbreeds for all the involved items are well-known and super easy to get if you use grade 3 thanalan soil, it just takes a bit of time, communication, planning, and most of all everyone working together as a group to make it succeed. There's really no other way to go about it.

Hell you can probably just use half the plot for food and half the plot for growing broom materials that you will get a surplus of food and will be able to stop growing it for long enough to let you use the full plot for broom materials or for personal items.

Also I'm pretty sure that the stables get dirty just based on how much time passes with a chocobo in there. We ran out of food on the first night of the patch and only one person has had their chocobo in there since then and ours also went from Fair to Poor and with how everybody everywhere is reporting the same thing it's likely the case.

[Nukocafe]

I was worried about producing chocobo food but Krakka root seeds give 9 pieces of food by default and 18 if you use grade 3 shroud soil. They also grow super quick, it takes about 3 days. That's 144 pieces of food from an 8-plant plot every few days.

Also I'm pretty sure that the stables get dirty just based on how much time passes with a chocobo in there. We ran out of food on the first night of the patch and only one person has had their chocobo in there since then and ours also went from Fair to Poor and with how everybody everywhere is reporting the same thing it's likely the case.

Thanks for sharing your findings. I had no idea the seeds grew this many pieces of food.