Abilities from Chocoback

[Alhanelem]

Hey those of you traveling by chocobo,

Don't read and ride!
(Just kidding)

The item team is actually looking into ways to allow players to execute the node finder abilities and check NPC Linkpearls while on chocoback. However this is still in the early planning phase and other teams need to be consulted with to verify whether or not it will be possible. We will be sure to let you know any developments when we find out.

I hope i'm not the only one wondering why this would be such a complex issue. The abilities in question don't have any kind of motion or animation or anything that would visually or ligically prohibit their use on chocobos/mounts. One would think it's a simple matter of flagging these commands as not being restricted while on chocobos/mounts.

[TenraiNagi]

Hey those of you traveling by chocobo,

Don't read and ride!
(Just kidding)

The item team is actually looking into ways to allow players to execute the node finder abilities and check NPC Linkpearls while on chocoback. However this is still in the early planning phase and other teams need to be consulted with to verify whether or not it will be possible. We will be sure to let you know any developments when we find out.

I would like to talk to NPCs and aetheryte crystals while riding a chocobo as well. Would you tell them that please? ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

[Kafeen]

I hope i'm not the only one wondering why this would be such a complex issue. The abilities in question don't have any kind of motion or animation or anything that would visually or ligically prohibit their use on chocobos/mounts. One would think it's a simple matter of flagging these commands as not being restricted while on chocobos/mounts.

It really does seem like the different teams are very isolated from one another. It sounds like SE's internal communications needs as much improvement as their communication with the community. Luckily their external communication has been improving recently, lets hope that the communication between teams improves too and different aspects off the game can gel together better in 2.0.

[Skies]

I hope i'm not the only one wondering why this would be such a complex issue. The abilities in question don't have any kind of motion or animation or anything that would visually or ligically prohibit their use on chocobos/mounts. One would think it's a simple matter of flagging these commands as not being restricted while on chocobos/mounts.

I am going to make a wild guess. But when mounted, you are a completely different entiety that does not works at all the same way your on-foot self does, and is not even related to class or ability setups to begin with.

Edit: I guess I am going to regret making this guess, however

[Holyomen]

Does Okipuit drop Ogre horns?

[Gerrr]

Moosey your signature rules so hard, I peed a little!

[MrKupo]

I am going to make a wild guess. But when mounted, you are a completely different entiety that does not works at all the same way your on-foot self does, and is not even related to class or ability setups to begin with.

Edit: I guess I am going to regret making this guess, however

I would have guessed the same thing. It might just be something do with the current state of the character, something like mounting a chocobo assigns the character a specific class that establishes the chocobo animation on top of multiplying the speed. If there was a different class for the character that is assigned during mounting (by class I mean a set of code that is standardized to be used for different enitites) then all of the code that was created pre-chocobo might not be existent for the 'chocobo' class of code. You might think, why not just copy and paste that code then? If only it was that easy.
This of course is just pure speculation.

[Resheph]

Hey those of you traveling by chocobo,

Don't read and ride!
(Just kidding)

The item team is actually looking into ways to allow players to execute the node finder abilities and check NPC Linkpearls while on chocoback. However this is still in the early planning phase and other teams need to be consulted with to verify whether or not it will be possible. We will be sure to let you know any developments when we find out.

Any chance for emotes, just for the sake of fun, and engaging NPCs in dialogue (turning in leves) from Chocoback?

If it just doesn't function technically, how about making it so that attempting one of these things, emotes, using abilities, talking to NPCs, etc, kicks you off your chocobo and does the action?