Quote Originally Posted by Hycinthus View Post
Great idea with the Chocobo. Overall, lots of great ideas, contents, and items that SE can sort through through this Airship guild housing, from simple to very complex like that video from Allods Online.

There is no talk about anything like this for 2.0, as far as I am aware. In my wildest dreams, again (lol), that Yoshi has this up his sleeve. But in my less wild dreams, this idea can take off (pun intended) with the devs for content for expansion.
Yoshi mentioned in a post somewhere in here. I don't remember the exact bit. It all blurs together now. The general line was on questions if Chocobo's could jump too, and he was describing the difficulty in rendering the movements correctly and how to optimize it properly. Essentially that the code is to damn hard to make look right and not eat up system resources.

But he goes on to mention the desire to eventually make them fly since there is a long history of flying chocobos. He goes a bit further to talk about how water walk would probably come down first, after (or along with) jump.
The challenge facing the team right now is making it look like a real flying bird, and then optimize the code to meet their model for lower graphics requirements. I can only imagine the design would be huge.
Just guessing but look for basic jump/water run in the first expansion, then flight in a second, and airships somewhere in second or third. Each of these are major projects that require new systems to be developed and integrated. I love what SE is doing and I encourage them to keep pushing the envelope.

If there is a game company that can build an MMO world that looks like Pandora, I'd put my money on SE.