I had a huge post written up about how I'm applying the scientific method, but I held a button down too long and lost it.

Short of it is, I should have fruit early today. I'm performing two experiments to find out whether the value of the chocobo's feathers (desert yellow) is a true or null value and whether RGB is true or a variant on pigment spectrum using RGB as primary colors (even though that's wrong, it'd actually be a preferable option for a lot of reasons I had outlined in the original post.)

Results should be very informative.

It also came with a warning I'm eager to post anyways: If you're not willing to gamble, WAIT a while before attempting to color your chocobo. Any assumptions you make about the default state of the chocobo and the color scale could be wrong and very costly. (Especially if you're buying fruit from the first round that will inevitably be up on the MBs for absurd prices.)

Maintenance is coming up and will delay me a bit, but I'm still hoping to have results posted soon.