How about have players choose between "unlocked" Chocobo-colors?

[Terin]

I ***LOVE*** the idea of being able to customize our Chocobos!!!

However, as someone who very picky (obsessive-compulsive, actually) about appearance, I'd love to have a system in which, as you feed your Chocobo, instead of *just* changing color, you "unlock" those Colors as an option you can choose from, similar to changing Bardings.

My reasoning is this; I love my classic Yellow Chocobo, but I also love the idea of changing the Chocobo's coloring to better compliment whatever Barding I use, which I always change based upon whatever Class I'm using. For example, as a Monk, I'd love to have some kind of "Beige" coloring with the Gridianian Saddle. As a Marauder, though, I might prefer some kind of dark-purple color with the Behemoth Barding. Since you only get one Chocobo, I don't see myself veering away from the classic Desert Yellow, but if I could freely change between colors I'd "unlocked"? Well, suddenly raising my Chocobo becomes the coolest thing in the world!

I know, I know; we *just* got the feature, so most probably think it's a bit early to be making requests on expanding it. This was just kind of my knee-jerk concern, and thought I'd put my thoughts our there early

Also; in addition to just allowing us to unlock Colors purely from Feeding, perhaps you might also add the Legacy and Draught White Chocobos as additional "colors", allowing them, too, to be customizable with other Bardings (or conversely, allowing other Colors to use *their* Bardings). That way, instead of various different Chocobos in your Mount Journal, you just have a single, endlessly-customizable one

[Welsper59]

I know, I know; we *just* got the feature, so most probably think it's a bit early to be making requests on expanding it. This was just kind of my knee-jerk concern, and thought I'd put my thoughts our there early

Good that you mention this, otherwise this complaint/suggestion would just sound... annoying. They'll most likely do something along the lines of what you want in the future. Probably not in the way that you're thinking, but rather in a method that eases the color selection process and depth. I'm quite sure it'll never be something so simple as the dye process for armor (at least nowhere in the near future), but it'll most likely be eased in how quickly you can obtain these goods for easier change.

[Kaze3434]

stop trying to take away my gil/time sink :V

[HakuroDK]

I would like this idea if it were applied in/around 2.5 or 3.0.