Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

[Chiral]

Been avidly reading this thread while waiting for our seeds to grow, and I'd like to suggest a bit of a theory, see if anyone can test it out.

UNRESEARCHED THEORY:
1) Each fruit has a set value for increasing or reducing color.

2) However, each possible chocobo "dye color" step includes several levels. That is, different combinations of color-fruits can produce the same "dye color" because the full spectrum of colors is not available

3) The "growing feathers" message is given whenever your feeding results in a "step up" or "step down" in visual dye color, that is, what you SEE on your chocobo. (cont'd below)

[Chiral]

4) But two chocobos can have the same visual color but not the same color in the numbers, and changing them from there can take different steps.

Say you have a green-yellow bird and want a yellow-orange one. You feed him a "red fruit" which unknown to you, has a set value of, say, 5. He turns yellow-orange. Your friend gets excited and does the same thing, but their bird only turns yellow! It's because YOUR bird was green-yellow at value (3) and took 5 steps up to yellow-orange (2), while theirs was green-yellow at value (1) and took 5 steps up to yellow (3). If he feeds his bird again, though, it won't be yellow-orange, it will be at orange (2).

[Chiral]

So like this:

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GREEN-YELLOW 1
GREEN-YELLOW 2
GREEN-YELLOW 3
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YELLOW 1
YELLOW 2
YELLOW 3
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YELLOW-ORANGE 1
YELLOW-ORANGE 2
YELLOW-ORANGE 3
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ORANGE 1
ORANGE 2
ORANGE 3
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[snowybell]

Could anyone offer some valuable insight here?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...o-color-change.

[Kaelah]

If I'm on Apple green, what do you guys think I should feed to try and get a deeper green. (Cactuar, Hunter or maybe Turquoise even.) I'd like to get a green close to my characters eye colour. Pears don't work so I'm assuming they are maxed. I've been feeding plums so far. Do I keep on with plums?

[Evangela]

yeah my cute white birdie.

[Lumidus]

yeah my cute white birdie.

too complicated and gil sinking.

another disappointment. this game keeps making me dislike it more and more. what's next? grinding something 100 hours for a new hairstyle?

At least you tried it out

[YunieAura]

Still trying for and looking for Morbol Green/Turquoise info. Or even Nophica Green.

[Applesnap]

Still trying for and looking for Morbol Green/Turquoise info. Or even Nophica Green.

Someone has posted turquoise. No idea where but there's a screenshot of it way back when (before post #800 I think, but don't quote me).

I expected Snow White when I logged in but actually got Rose Pink and I really like it. Despite that, I think I'll feed him some more plums and hope for my original goal. Will post back in six hours or so and update.