Chocobo Racing and Weather Effects

[Aphel]

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Did you even read what I wrote? The effects are so blindingly obvious that you don't even need to consider the total time.

Step 1: Get a high pedigree foul-weathered Chocobo and race in Heatwave/Sunshine and observe.
Step 2: Get a high pedigree fair-weathered Chocobo and race in Rain/Thunder and observe.

In neutral weather there's no boost whatsoever.

Only then will you understand what we are talking about. I have 1579 races under my belt (Pedigree 8 and gone through both types of Chocobo) and other players have way more than me. Our judgement isn't hasty, it's mind-numbingly staggeringly obvious and I do not understand why other people fail to see this glaring fact. What a facepalm moment.

We aren't talking about nerfing foul-weather chocobos, we just want all Chocobos to have the same degree of sub-optimal performance in unfavorable weather. Why? Put both types of Chocos together in the same race.

During sunshine/heatwave: Fair-weathered Choco gets little boost (+10%), foul-weathered Choco gets little penalty (-10%). Difference between them = ~20%
During rain: Fair-weathered Choco gets heavy penalty (-30%), foul-weathered Choco gets little boost (+10%). Difference between them = 40%

The people not aware of this fact are those who have not raced enough on both types of Chocobos to understand. What you are doing is theorizing. What I (and many other people) am doing is speaking from experience arising from countless races.