Not only Rental Chocobos.. but..

[Kailok]

Well, in FFXI personal chocobos:
1) had to be raised from egg to adulthood before riding (took about a month i think)
2) personal chocobos were often times slower than rental chocobos.
3) personal chocobos sometimes had a shorter riding duration than rentals.
4) If you wanted faster and or longer riding time chocobos you had to breed several generations to fine tune atributes. (this could take months)

Now I'm not saying FFXIV chocobos will be the same as FFXI chocobos. But I'll as far to say Personal vs Rental there will be either speed or riding time will be reduced compared to rentals.

Or there is going to be a terrible cool down timer between calling for a ride like 1 ride per 36 hours



j/k j/k

I just really hope it's not like that in this game. Yes, I would like to devote a lot of my time to my chocobo, but it shouldn't hinder my reasoning for ever wanting my own chocobo.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I just really hope it's not like that in this game. Yes, I would like to devote a lot of my time to my chocobo, but it shouldn't hinder my reasoning for ever wanting my own chocobo.

Chocobo raising and breeding in XI was very complex but only very time consuming if you did it alone.
The system was set up to have player to player interaction. If i hatched a chocobo that had the attribute of having a long riding time, and you hatched a chocobo that had high rate of speed. We could then mate our chocobos and hatch the resulting eggs into a bird that had potential higher speed with longer riding time.

It worked the same for raising different colored chocobos.

It was a deep and complex system *IF* you wanted it that way.

I just raised a basic chocobo which had slow speed (still faster than running) and a moderate riding time. It was nice and convenient to call when out in the middle of no where. If I were in a city I would rent.