Chocobo racing: The NPC problem

[Alexiell]

it really looks like they often skip items on purpose to give you a bad item, but they also skip good items sometimes so maybe its just random.
i think higher races are balanced for chocobos that have been trained with grade 2-3 food, but their prices are just too high to use them on anything lower than your final chocobo (in my opinion). If they made the food prices more reasonable this would solve a lot of problems.

[Maddonious]

yeah, I feed my chocobos with grade 1 food to the maximum effect and it seems to do nothing in the higher tiers. Prices for grade 2/3 are still way to high even after the price drop I will agree. It just seems that the races themselves get to difficutl to fast and they expect you to have 3-4 stars on each stat by the time you hit r100 which is hard to achieve.