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Chocobo Breeding in a Chocobo Ranch, inspired by how it is done in FFVII

And before anyone says it, yes I know the game would have to change a lot of background things for this to work but this thread is about dreaming up a fantasy, not about saying exactly how the devs would achieve it.

Catch wild chocobos in different regions and breed them. Who you breed them with and what food they eat will determine the sort of chocobo you get.

It would be purely cosmetic. In combat your bred chocobos would have the exact same stats as your grand company chocobo. You would of course also be able to use them as mounts.

To catch chocobos you would need to track them down and when you have they would spawn similarly to how story mobs spawn in quests. The locations of the chocobo would be randomised on the map so no flying to the destination without tracking them first.

To catch them you would do a mini game involving baiting them with food and putting a harness on them. When you catch a chocobo it is automatically sent to your ranch.

The breeding would take place in a personal instanced chocobo ranch with some cosmetic options such as the colour and style of the buildings, the races of the npcs, the style of terrain, types of plants and some minor layout options like a selection of predetermined locations you can place the buildings in. There would be enough cosmetic options that the likelihood that your ranch would be exactly the same as someone else's would be small.

You would access the ranch similarly to how you access apartments. You can choose to leave them open for anyone to visit, just your friends and fc mates, just your friends, or only you. Only the owner of the ranch can interact with the breeding system.

Results of breeding would be:

**you can combine any physicial traits through breeding**

• stocky or lithe bodies or anything in-between
• varying heights
• smaller or bigger beaks
• pointier or more blunt beaks
• smaller or bigger talons on their feet
• smaller or bigger wings
• different shapes of eyes
• different types of plumage (there is actually a lot of variance in this throughout the FF games)
• their tails would have a variety of shapes
• have their feathers multiple colours instead of just one
• mount visual effects such as a trail of fire, ice, lightning, rainbows, stars, sparkles, etc, when you run or fly with them

Reaching breeding milestones would unlock:

• more ranch slots to hold more chocobos
• more cosmetic options for your ranch
• a selection of bardings that you can dye
• titles for breeding certain amounts of chocobos
• minions of the baby forms of your chocobos
• dyeable chocobo breeder glam gear
• furniture you can place in housing

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This will never happen, but I can dream :'D