Chocobo racing and MGP...

[Krr]

So, R60 is like 105 per win, and R80 is like 120...that's about 2-5 minutes. That assumes first place which requires a bit of RNG finnicking (weather, items, etc.) Now obviously, Master's is more, but it's also harder and thus less reliable as even the AI becomes more powerful. I've also heard Master's courses tend to be roughly 1.5x to 2x as long which offests their MGP/run a bit from the estimated 150-200 I've heard.

Meanwhile, I can go to Indolent Imperial with about the same amount of prep as a semi-decent second-generation Chocobo and thrash him for ~100 MGP per almost-guaranteed win and then sell all his crappy 2* and 3* cards for 5-10 on top of that and don't even get me started if I get lucky and he drops an extra Gaius or two.

This is all after the expenses of doing said content.

Well, the point being...there's a reason why people are farming Trippy Triad for MGP and neglecting races. Some people are even farming Trippy Triad to get MGP to *raise their damn race chocobo*. It's...honestly sort of pathetic. Isn't this the other major minigame we got?

I think part of this is - players are way better at Triple Triad than expected. But, that isn't good for the other major activity of GS - racing - if it's so outclassed by this unexpected surge of skilled NPC-thwompers. Could we see a small - 1.2x at best - boost to racing MGP to compensate? Preferably alongside the removal of DNF rewards? It feels like the only reason to invest in a high-tier race chocobo is "for the sake of it"...which, you know, for those of us who are race fanatics is fine! But we need more than just fanatics to fill out our queues - NPCs are a great addition, but they're also quite dry to play against.

Plus, you know, cost of lethe water and coverings... (grumble)

[RobinRethiel]

MGP for racing could indeed be a good bit higher (one imperial TT match is 30s and 90 MGP, while the shortest chocobo race needs 3min...). If you would feed your chocobo the better food... just forget it. Chocobo Racing is a MGP sink, no way to earn it. Don't know if this changes, when you reach the master class, but until then you probably have spent hundredthousands of MGP for it.

Already put something between 20-30k into breeding alone, because I really don't need a male or female chocobo with a lot of 1-stars, so the permission goes right into trash. Same to bad luck breeding, when the new chocobo got all the worst stats...

[Hyunckel]

At the moment, Chocobo Races are a waste of time, if you look at it from a MGP or bragging point.

Why race with some awful RNG involved and earn so little when you can earn 90 MGP every 42 seconds while watching Netflix?

Why Chocobo breed (aside for us min-maxers who enjoy doing that) and waste SO MUCH MGP in the process if you can just spend a couple days and pray to the RNGodess to earn yourself 60 cards and make a Scions deck and rape Indolent Imperial?

Why even race and win races, aside for the meh titles (that require SO MANY RACES, whereas there are no titles for us people playing/winning thousands Triple Triad games lol), since there is no damn Leaderboard?

Can't even place bets too.

Imo they dropped the ball with Chocobo Breeding/Racing. That part could get some improvements.

Would be REALLY NICE if they increased the MGP rewards, cause at the moment it's not worth it

EDIT: Tried some Chocobo races, such a disappointment. No wonder the Chocobo Square is almost deserted lol

Time to wait on next content patch I guess

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Maybe on your server no one cares about chocobo racing. My place always has a lot of people signing up for a race. And since RNG does not want me to get 30 cards for TT so I could improve my deck, I say screw it and farm MGP through racing.

[nijian]

I'd like to see the MGP rewards increased for all brackets across the board. Not by a ton, but still, a fair little bit more would be appreciated. O_O

[Shinun]

I would love for the rewards to be similar. I want to Chocobo Race it sounds and looks very fun, but with the amount of MGP I currently need to finish my TT collecton. I can't if i want to get the rewards I want in a more reasonable fashion.

[RyuujinZERO]

It's true, many "pro racers" have to turn to Triple Triad, to fund their chocobo racing; kind've ironic isn't it. I usually find that in the time it takes to raise a bird 1 pedigree, I'll earn about 12k MGP, which is enough to buy like, 3 covers to get my next pedigree bird - if you fail to get a good bird in 3 tries it's back to the grind. And let's not even talk about high performance feed or training manuals; 60,000 MGP? - a bird will never earn that in it's entire career, arguably you might aim to get it picked up in it's genetic lineage as a hereditary trait and serve you well for 2 or 3 generations, but the books only teach up to tier 2, and tier 3 is obtainable via good breeding, so this arguement is not economically sound anyway.

[Riepah]

Yup, racing MGP deserve a buff. It's silly that you can get more MGP farming NPCs in card games without a single gil or MGP invested than doing Chocobo races which, if you take them seriously, require considerable investment of gil and MGP.

[Grekumah]

Greetings,

Thank you for the specific feedback regarding the process of raising your chocobo to the highest class rating, and MGP rewards for each class.

We’re planning to increase the amount of MGP obtained from chocobo races, so we'd like to ask you to wait just a bit longer.

[Welsper59]

Greetings,

Thank you for the specific feedback regarding the process of raising your chocobo to the highest class rating, and MGP rewards for each class.

We’re planning to increase the amount of MGP obtained from chocobo races, so we'd like to ask you to wait just a bit longer.

Ooh any idea of how much of an increase? Or perhaps if it's only pertaining to certain rating brackets?