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

[Venat]

FFXI had a Chocobo sorta mini game/quest where you would rent a chocobo at a city and npc would tell you to ride from Grindnna to Ul'Dah and completion on staying on chocobo and reaching the zone location would rank you on your time and give you gil.

Before renting chocobo they would mention who has the fastest speed time for completing that in the server.

Id like FFXIV to add ther own kinda quest within the game and maybe add some adjustments to it.

[Falcus]

I remember that, would be pretty good if they did implement it.
I remember doing it earlier this year and somehow managed to beat the "best time" by about a minute xD

A gil reward wouldn't be that great imo, but possibly some Chocobo related item as a reward would be nice.

[AsterBarnivere]

I'd actually like that but more like this:

<world announcement>
The Chocobo Blitz Event has started!
All registered racers please proceed to the following Chocobo Stable(s) to participate, failure to do so disqualifies your registry form.

@ The Chocobo Stable:

NPC: BLAH BLAH BLAH *I've marked the goal on your map* BLAH BLAH

Outside:
*A giant ribbon lines up all of the chocobo and their riders and a giant KWEH!! in gold letters appear in front of your screen meaning "GO"* (Watch out for monsters placed on the field to hinder you from victory! Look for chests that'll help you along the way, if knocked off your chocobo, go to the last checkpoint touched to receive a knock-down penalty that slows your chocobo (state of weakness) and continue the race)

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"

(The prizes are for PERSONAL chocobo use only outside of racing, the items cannot be used for races)

[Geesus]

I'd actually like that but more like this:

<world announcement>
The Chocobo Blitz Event has started!
All registered racers please proceed to the following Chocobo Stable(s) to participate, failure to do so disqualifies your registry form.

@ The Chocobo Stable:

NPC: BLAH BLAH BLAH *I've marked the goal on your map* BLAH BLAH

Outside:
*A giant ribbon lines up all of the chocobo and their riders and a giant KWEH!! in gold letters appear in front of your screen meaning "GO"* (Watch out for monsters placed on the field to hinder you from victory! Look for chests that'll help you along the way, if knocked off your chocobo, go to the last checkpoint touched to receive a knock-down penalty that slows your chocobo (state of weakness) and continue the race)

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"

And you start your new position with SE's Dev team when? LOL That sounds even BETTER ! See, us old school XI players can come up with new and exciting twists for XIV. Separating both games while using things from the previous to be new and fresh in Eorzea! Nice work AsterBarnivere!

[AsterBarnivere]

And you start your new position with SE's Dev team when? LOL That sounds even BETTER ! See, us old school XI players can come up with new and exciting twists for XIV. Separating both games while using things from the previous to be new and fresh in Eorzea! Nice work AsterBarnivere!

Why Thank You (The chocobo racing disappointed me in XI because I believed we would be able to actually RIDE our birds, not some stranger) lol

[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]

Oh man I did a few of those. They were fun and Falcus, that would be a nice little deal. Gil or another Chocobo related reward would be nice. Guess we will have to wait and see exactly what we're getting. Just wondering if they have even put in any thought to raising them as in XI but at least the renting/Grand Companie aspect is better than nothing.

[Griss]

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

[Geesus]

silly people chocobo's cant run on water.

LOLOL! True.

Why Thank You (The chocobo racing disappointed me in XI because I believed we would be able to actually RIDE our birds, not some stranger) lol

I did too that's why I think this would be a fun event. It would include the entire population that owned a Chocobo. And the bragging rights would be huge.