Chocobo Riding to other citys,towns (Race Time Quest)

[Geesus]

BLUE ONES CAN!!

Womp womp. haha

[Inaaca]

1st Prizes for winning:
New gear for your chocobo that increases speed/defense
New chocobo jack coat/dress/hat/pants/cape/ that increases rider's stability/handling of the chocobo's movement
a gold crown that says "Chocobo Racing King/Queen" and baraging rights (until someone beats you)

2nd prize:
Saddle flags
Silver tiara thingy that says "Chocobo racing prince/Princess"

3rd:
bronze circlet that says "Chocobo racing slow poke"

So this may be a small point and I'm nitpicking a theoretical idea, but here goes anyways.

Just gotta say that I'm strongly against granting faster racing gear to the 1st place race winners. Reason for this being, is that those who are already good enough to win, are then being rewarded with equipment that grants an edge that makes it even easier to win.

Once enough racers had attained the gear and the competition became saturated with "geared up" racers, a rift would develop between those that had won the faster gear and those who hadn't. The racers without gear would never be able to attain it because the only way to get it is to win, and the only way to win is to have faster gear, leaving the races virtually inaccessible to them.

So if better racing gear were to exist, it shouldn't be gained via winning the races, but by some other means. Race prizes should either be aesthetic, or improve some other factor.

[SirEdeonX]

So this may be a small point and I'm nitpicking a theoretical idea, but here goes anyways.

Just gotta say that I'm strongly against granting faster racing gear to the 1st place race winners. Reason for this being, is that those who are already good enough to win, are then being rewarded with equipment that grants an edge that makes it even easier to win.

Once enough racers had attained the gear and the competition became saturated with "geared up" racers, a rift would develop between those that had won the faster gear and those who hadn't. The racers without gear would never be able to attain it because the only way to get it is to win, and the only way to win is to have faster gear, leaving the races virtually inaccessible to them.

So if better racing gear were to exist, it shouldn't be gained via winning the races, but by some other means. Race prizes should either be aesthetic, or improve some other factor.

I was about to point that out ;P

But anyways, the OP was talking about chocobo rental - which should be the same Chocobo for everyone. But that would lose some of its meaning.

I loved Aster's idea, but for that we needed a couple of things:
1- that u just mentioned - no better racing gear awarded at the end
2- a much more responsive server (or character refresh time), or we would be seeing ourselves winning and actually losing ;P

[Geesus]

Well I missed that but I think it's because I looked at the prize gear as for your chocobo non race but in use out in the field. So like gear for your chocobo but not for racing. I may be wrong but that's what I thought.

[AsterBarnivere]

Well I missed that but I think it's because I looked at the prize gear as for your chocobo non race but in use out in the field. So like gear for your chocobo but not for racing. I may be wrong but that's what I thought.

correct! xD (It was for personal chocobo usage, not for racing) lol I should edit that to prevent anymore confusion

[Fayette]

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

Maybe SE can build an underground channel tunnel for chocobo riders and the entry point be at the Ferry and we can choose to either take the Ferry and go afk for awhile or fish or we could choose to continue riding our chocobo through a long tunnel to get to LL ^^ It could either be a long cave tunnel or maybe Ul'dah and LL got together and built a kind of glass tunnel and we could see fishes etc swimming around on the outside. /shrug

[Enthy]

chocobo digging please ^^

[Stockapotapoulos]

I'd be down with this. Maybe implement some sort of stamina system, similar to the Horse Riding in Red Dead Redemption for a bit of challenge and trickery.

[Venat]

Instead of it saving your track time on the server it save it on your forum image.

[Geesus]

Maybe SE can build an underground channel tunnel for chocobo riders and the entry point be at the Ferry and we can choose to either take the Ferry and go afk for awhile or fish or we could choose to continue riding our chocobo through a long tunnel to get to LL ^^ It could either be a long cave tunnel or maybe Ul'dah and LL got together and built a kind of glass tunnel and we could see fishes etc swimming around on the outside. /shrug

Maybe a tunnel with some mobs to make it a challenge or add some fun?