An idea for a future Class/Job

[Konachibi]

Extra Adaption To Chocobo Breeder

Obviously to go along with simply incubating eggs a breeder would be able to breed together two of their stabled chocobos. This would be done in very much the same way as Final Fantasy VII, where you give the female chocobo a nut, choose the male chocobo to breed with, and then come back 24 hours to see the result.
Results would differ depending on which chocobos you breed together, their colours, and their likes and dislikes of each other. In each chocobos attributes window you would be provided with information as to it's stats, skills, favorite food, and which of the other chocobos in your stable they like and dislike.
Breeding two chocobos together that dislike each other could wield little or no reward at all, where as breeding two that do like each other could give better results or even extremely special results if you're lucky.

The likes and dislikes for each chocobo could be altered by moving them closer together in the stable, the longer they're pens are next to each other, the more they begin to like each other, which you would use as a means to get better results if you were to breed them together.

Breeding two chocobos of different types together could result in bad results, for instance a riding chocobo bred with a battle chocobo could result in just a basic yellow chocobo egg with nothing special to it. However breeding two riding chocobos together could result in a specialised riding chocobo egg that when hatched, gave you a new chocobo that already had stats in speed and endurance.

Also to go with this breeding two chocobos of the same colour together would result in an egg of the same colour, however mixing colours could result in an egg of a different colour (E.g White & red chocobo results in pink chocobo egg), possibly even allowing you to obtain special coloured chocobos that are unobtainable by any other means.

This system would allow players a whole range of customisability with their breeding, letting them decide what colour and type they want from their chocobo, possibly spending days, weeks or even months mixing and matching chocobos together to get the one super special chocobo with the colour, stats and abilities they always wanted. (Golden riding chocobo with infinite sprint? )

It would also benefit them in other ways. Spending a lot of time breeding the right chocobos together would allow them to create specialised high level chocobos that are of high demand in the market/auction house and sell for a high price, so a Level 50 Beast-Master would want to spend his hard earned gil on a chocobo pet that was made with tender loving care and excells in combat, rather than one that was made five minutes ago and has nothing special about it at all.

Ultimately this would result in Square Enix not needing to think about adding in the 'next level of mounts' that run faster than the last ones, as the running speed of each riding chocobo would be determined by the stats it obtained from it's breeder as well as the armour/harnesses it was wearing.

This in turn would allow Square Enix to put in fun special events such as chocobo races that players could take part in and win trophies and rewards for. Many player would dedicate a lot of time trying to breed the best racing chocobo they could to take part in the races that could be held as a special monthly/6 monthly/yearly event.

If it rewarded in trophies these could maybe be kept in a special light-up cabinet in your stable so you could show it off to your friends