AFK Racing Solution

[Gallus]

Why are you so concerned that people do this? The way I see it:

The highest reward about chocobo racing is chocobo racing itself. 150 MGP...50 MGP...what for? To earn one million and buy a vanity mount or a card? If people want to afk for a few lazy MGPs, in the long term they'll realize they are fooling themselves, because they are losing out what is most enjoyable about chocobo racing...and that's racing.

I rarely encounter any afkers in my races, but if I ever encounter one, it's basically one competitor less (or just treat it like another clueless NPC). There's absolutely no harm in this.

It was literally the same thing with PVP wintraders. They would spend 2 weeks earning wolf marks win trading and then brag about a full lionsmane set xD, when the supposed fun from PVP should come from PVP itself...not from a silly gear you've earned artificially.

So my piece of advice, enjoy Gold Saucer, and raise your concerns when something really is gamebreaking.

[Gallus]

Also, the way racing works, I do not blame occasional afkers, I know I've afked a few matches (though I do it only against NPCs). Chocobo stats are brutally random, and the abilities they inherit and learn too, you can happen to have a brilliant G4 chocobo with Choco Dash III and Choco Cure III, with 4 stars in Stamina and 4 stars in maximum speed...only to breed it with another one to get your G5 gen chocobo and end up with something like Choco Esuna and Increased EXP, along with 1 and 2 stars on Maximum Speed and Stamina. Trust me you are bound to have a BAD TIME with such chocobo, so your only solution is breeding another one and spend 2-5k MGP + 6 hours and crossing your fingers...or move on, accept it and occasionally get frustrated with your terrible chocobo and afk a few races that you know you don't even stand a chance in the first place.

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The highest reward about chocobo racing is chocobo racing itself. 150 MGP...50 MGP...what for? To earn one million and buy a vanity mount or a card? If people want to afk for a few lazy MGPs, in the long term they'll realize they are fooling themselves, because they are losing out what is most enjoyable about chocobo racing...and that's racing.

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