I got screwed! (Chocobo)

[Vidu]

Edit: Square Enix; get rid of the ability to just retire your chocobo for NO REASON. It's a newby trap!

Sorry to be so blunty disagreeing with this but we dont need SE to babysit us everywhere. You screwed up because you didnt informed yourself properly beforehand - that is unfortuante, but ultimatley your fault.

I've got enough of people suggesting that SE should treat us all like dumb toddlers by putting safety guards and meassures everywhere. I like being treated like an adult who is responsible for their own choices.

It is unfortunate that you made this mistake and lost your chocobo, but honestly: If it was your first racing chocobo you didnt lost to much. 15k MGP arent a huge loss either, specially not now that we've got MGP-buffs up. And you took a valuable lesson from this: Inform yourself better. A good way to do that when it comes to racing is this guide: https://www.mooglemedia.com/off-to-the-races/

[ChakoTako]

What might have happened is that you retired the chocobo at Rating 40 instead of Rank 40. Your rank is your regular leveling. Your rating determines which races you can compete in and is often much higher than your rank. If you talk to the feathertrader at Benchbranch Meadows you can get another chocobo registration. It sucks, but you'll have to just start over.

If you did it correctly and did get the retired chocobo registration then take it to the Race chocobo breeder at Benchbrach meadows.

I did this exact same thing only last week. I thought it was a bug that it wouldn't let me progress after retiring my chocobo ,and I sent in a bug report

[Altena]

Yeah, so I screwed up.

Sorry Chaos Yamato! Hope Lightning Dagger can live up to her legacy. ;.;

Edit: Square Enix; get rid of the ability to just retire your chocobo for NO REASON. It's a newby trap!

I mean... You still have your script thingy in your inventory, no?

Just take it to the breeder and use it to breed. You want to get a high pedigree rank anyway.. And the only way to do that is to level > retire > breed > repeat.

[ChakoTako]

What might have happened is that you retired the chocobo at Rating 40 instead of Rank 40. Your rank is your regular leveling. Your rating determines which races you can compete in and is often much higher than your rank. If you talk to the feathertrader at Benchbranch Meadows you can get another

I did this exact same thing only last week. I thought it was a bug that it wouldn't let me progress after retiring my chocobo ,and I sent in a bug report

[Vidu]

I did this exact same thing only last week. I thought it was a bug that it wouldn't let me progress after retiring my chocobo ,and I sent in a bug report

Did you follow all the needed steps? Got the Retirement Registration? Got the correct license to breed? Went to the right place to breed?

[ChakoTako]

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I think I did what KieranOlive suggested and retired the choco early. I probably got the rank, and rating mixed up. Will try and see later if I can at least get a new choco and start over.

[Keydah]

Yeah, so I screwed up.

Sorry Chaos Yamato! Hope Lightning Dagger can live up to her legacy. ;.;

Edit: Square Enix; get rid of the ability to just retire your chocobo for NO REASON. It's a newby trap!

It specifically tells you if you retire them too early that you surrender them to Gold Saucer. The option needs to stay so that you can discard the chocobo if it doesn't get the right stats or something (e.g. say you got 20 stars on mom but only 19 on dad, you can register it and hope the fledgling gets mom's 4 star stat instead of dad's 3 star).

[Coratanni]

Sorry to be so blunty disagreeing with this but we dont need SE to babysit us everywhere. You screwed up because you didnt informed yourself properly beforehand - that is unfortuante, but ultimatley your fault.

I've got enough of people suggesting that SE should treat us all like dumb toddlers by putting safety guards and meassures everywhere. I like being treated like an adult who is responsible for their own choices.

Unfortunately people nowadays, want to be babysat. How many people do you see ask basic questions in /shout chat in game, that they could have found in 60 seconds by using google themselves? Most of them would not have survived gaming 30 years ago when we didn't have many strategy guides to go on, and the internet was nothing more than a BBS on dial-up.

[Aeeninwen_Taldel]

The fault is only yours, and yours alone. If you had bothered to actually read what it said, you would not be in the situation that you are in now. There is no reason for SE to switch things just because you've failed to read the fine print (or any print for that matter).

[Xenosan]

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Eh, I did the same thing myself once after taking a long hiatus from the game. Retired my chocobo at rank 30 instead of 40, mistaking that it was 40-50 not 30-40 for some reason. long hiatus, early morning not enough coffee.

I think there may have even been a warning message that alerts you 'this chocobo will not provide a covering for not being rank 40 or above.' Must of fatfingered right through it.

It's not a big loss as long as you have breeding attempts left on your previous bird. Just have to restart that pedigree tier. Which long haul is still the same MGP farm anyway