Thanks for the input everyone ^.^

It did occur to me that being able to breed chocobos immediately would make it a little too easy to get hold of one to ride around on, but then I thought when you're only a level 1 breeder and get your first chocobo to ride, it would only be able to run very slightly fast than your base run speed, like only 10% faster or something and it'd take a while to get it's run speed up more.

If anything your first few chocobos would be mostly a cosmetic/fun thing to do, it wouldn't be till you started to hit around level 20+ that you'd have a chocobo that'd have a significantly higher running speed (like 50%+). This would match other crafting classes where the first stuff you can craft is mostly level 1-9 and can easily be outlevelled, and some time and effort is needed to get it high enough to make stuff that would keep up with how fast your battle class levels.

@ Arlekiel: Mostly the reason chocobos took so long to impliment is because they've been over-hauling the entire game as well as adding content. Once they've finished fixing the game up around 1.21ish, we'll be seeing a lot more new content being added as the dev team can focus on making the game bigger instead of trying to make the core systems work properly.

And yeah it would be a lot of content to add, which is why I thought it'd be better to add in as an expansion pack. A patch that had all the stuff I mentioned in would be like, 2-3gb or more which wouldn't be very good for players who don't have fast connections.