Please let us mount other mounts while our chocobo is summoned

[Fyrebrand]

Nowhere on any official FFXIV site have I seen them refer to a chocobo as a pet, but a companion and comrade. A comrade is a fellow soldier, a partner.

How many partners/fellows/comrades do you keep in a stable, expect to show up immediately when called, and ride around on? And since when do comrades demand you not ride any other mounts in their presence? I'm pretty sure a fellow soldier and partner would enter a dungeon with me, too.

[SDaemon]

Chocobos should be made what they are: PETS instead of full fledged player like party members, with the only restriction that they cannot be summoned in dungeons / cities.



Wouldn't that be called "cosplay"?

If they made race costumes yeah. Otherwise it's just a cheap race change. Miqote ear for everyone yes? Oh and tails!

[AutumnLeaves]

Seems like it would be awfully crowded if they implemented something like this, riding your mount , chocobo at your flank and a pet trailing behind, hell make it so minions can be summoned too so you can have a whole freaking farm

[Kingmanath]

And now we can really customize our chocobo with lots of bardings, many colors. Before dying I used to summon my unicorn but now it's only my BlackChoc' ^^
I agree with the solution to choose which mount could be our "favorite" and so our companion. But I can't believe that a blue horse who tries to heal you would really be in the FF lore ... x)

[kidvideo]

Yes please. Mount roulette should still work if the choco is summoned.

[Fyrebrand]

In my opinion, chocobo companion was totally botched as a feature. It's bad enough that you can't enter DF queue, summon a minion, or use other mounts while chocobo is out -- but the fact that initially you could not mount at all is a joke. Not to mention, there used to be no way to reset skill points at all. Why even bother releasing it, in that state? The fact that they fixed it later essentially just means they could have made it that way from the start, but hastily pushed the feature out the door unfinished and neglected it til later. Even today, I feel like we are using a broken "beta version" of chocobo companion.

I mean, even if you're already in a DF queue and you summon the companion, there is no warning before kicking you out of the queue. How hard is it to make a simple text box prompt? The lack of even this tiny consideration demonstrates complete apathy toward the value of players' time. After all, it works the opposite way -- if you have the choco companion out and try to enter DF, a text warning pops up preventing you from queuing until you manually dismiss. Apparently, auto-dismissing chocobo companion is unacceptable to the developers, but there's no concern whatsoever when booting players from a DF queue they've been waiting in for maybe 40+ minutes. Maybe they see it as gaining 40 minutes of subscription time..??

If the result of their "companion" system was going to end up like this, I would have rather they made the chocobo function like the arcanist/summoner creatures. At least you can issue commands to them directly, and they don't interfere with any other game mechanics. The game even knows to auto-dismiss them when entering a dungeon, for crying out loud!

[Grekumah]

There are two reasons why you can only mount your chocobo when you have your chocobo companion summoned. The first is that your companion and you share a trusting relationship and therefore you’d want to ride on their back when you are adventuring together.

The second reason is that we’ve made it so companions and mounts are not displayed at the same time because we’re giving consideration to stress that the servers handle when displaying a large amount of characters.

In the event that we made it possible to summon both a companion and a mount at the same time, it would affect the number of characters displayed. While there wouldn’t be much of a change with one or two people doing this, we have designed this system giving consideration to the fact that there would be densely populated areas within an MMORPG.

Therefore, when riding on a mount, your companion disappears, and when you dismount it would reappear from nowhere, so we’ve currently made it so you can only mount your chocobo. However, if there are no issues with this seemingly strange occurrence, it would not be difficult to lift the limitation on other mounts.

We’re considering at the moment whether it would be better to follow the lore and maintain the current system or if it would be better to allow players to freely use the mounts they like when using a companion. I can’t give a specific time for when the decision will be made, but we would like to see your feedback on the matter, so please continue to discuss this topic.

[Shougun]

We’re considering at the moment whether it would be better to follow the lore and maintain the current system or if it would be better to allow players to freely use the mounts they like when using a companion. I can’t give a specific time for when the decision will be made, but we would like to see your feedback on the matter, so please continue to discuss this topic.

Like Vahn, I think it would be nice just to have the chocobo mounted no matter the mount button pressed (or dismounted no matter the button pressed). If you can mount another while your chocobo is out, wouldn't they try to defend you like Summoner's egis do? That might be a problem, Chocobo off in the boontoolies thanks to monsters pulling aggro.

If they don't defend you then they will feel like bad companions, so you're stuck with losing them all the time (like Summoner Egi) or having them be bad friends like Mario and Yoshi :P.

[Nakiamiie]

The first is that your companion and you share a trusting relationship and therefore you’d want to ride on their back when you are adventuring together.

My real companion is my Legacy chocobo, it spent 5 five years looking for me and we have lots of memories together!
Why can't I use my Legacy chocobo (or apply the skin to my current companion) to fight together?

The lore is stronger with the Legacy chocobo, it should happen. ^^

[Shougun]

My real companion is my Legacy chocobo, it spent 5 five years looking for me and we have lots of memories together!
Why can't I use my Legacy chocobo (or apply the skin to my current companion) to fight together?

The lore is stronger with the Legacy chocobo, it should happen. ^^

The lore, correct me if I'm wrong, says the Legacy chocobo is my chocobo from 1.0 - shouldn't he just have a /legacymark command like I do and then make the legacy armor a barding option?

I know it is very low priority in terms of things to do but.. I don't know why my 1.0 Chocobo is and is not my 2.0 Chocobo XD. I'd like to ride and fight besides my real 1.0 boco >.> lol