How should they implement Chocobos?

[Benji]

I hope it's a system where you can call a Chocobo and it'll come running up next to you, enabling you to target it. From there you can either choose to mount up or arrange items between your saddlebags and character inventory and maybe even customize the gear your mount is wearing.

[gifthorse]

I hope it's a system where you can call a Chocobo and it'll come running up next to you, enabling you to target it. From there you can either choose to mount up or arrange items between your saddlebags and character inventory and maybe even customize the gear your mount is wearing.

That would be awesome.

[Rau]

You should start having to raise your chocobo at R1, and you get milestone quests (R7 R15, R20, R25), and you finally get your chocobo.

[Kirith]

I am in first line for this. We need chocobos actively present in the world and stating a reason for it would be insulting to their awesomeness. We need to use them. We need to say "Hey, i'm on the chocobo already, will be there soon!" or "It's far. Let's use a chocobo!"

Not having chocobos is game-breaking, deal-breaking, heart-wrenching. This won't be anything more than a bad alpha until they are implemented properly. (i know it's silly, but that's how i feel about it)

Raising chocobos: a tedious system to plan and implement, would bet we wont see it before an year from now.

I want it.

Mounted chocobo combat: unless it's already in the works, we won't see it for a very long time as well, it's probably quite tricky to implement.

I really want it.

[Kallera]

Introduce chocobo as method of animaless transportaton for a fee.

Make chocobo raising next, I'm not a fan of the ran away bit, but have initial costs of raising/breeding chocobos be expensive, but with the potential of differences/equipment to give it be high(add more recepies later on).
Whistle to summon it as your trusty steed! Include dig for special items!

Last,(once everything ironed out, and the arena in uldah is set up) have pvp content for all three cities. Or one sport per city. Triple triad(or cards) in LL, arena in Uldah, and Chocoracing in Gridania!

I dunno about combat however. Perhaps only a specific weapon can do it, then there's the issue of getting mobs to render in the time it take for a chocobo to arrive.

[Chezen]

I think they could easily devote entire sidequests to chocobos.

At the very least, I'd like to see a series of quests needed to get it. At the most, chocobo raising sounds really fun.

[Shiyo]

Yeah I'd love mages to have teleports too! ^-^ I always thought of anima as a "beta" thing, so we could travel quickly in beta before they added chocobos airships and real tranportation, having so many forms of transportation would totally ruin this game imo. Begone anima, come on real transports/teleport spells!

[chime85]

At the very least, I'd like to see a series of quests needed to get it

I really like this idea. Would be silly if it was like "you're now rank #, have a chocobo". Seems alot more fun to do some small quest for it. Maybe even a chance to catch it or something

Kimiko x

[Laughlyn]

I want option as mage to teleport (maybe time mage spells, just another reason to level something else)
And chocobos as battle mounts only, possibly for racing, training, upgrading, leveling it so its Pimp & ready for battle.
Also id like to name the damn thing.... something like... maybe Bob!

Mounts... guess it would cool, but after collection tons of them in WoW before i quit... urrr...
i dont like hearing the word mount anymore, unless i get to choose from Chocobo, Coblyn or a Dodo mount.
(wich i'd prolly pick a Coblyn ofc, cuz they the shitz!)

Final idea, if ever implemented... give Beastmaster the option to charm,
train & option to sell charmed mobs as Mounts.

Not all mobs thou... dont wanna ride a cactuar...that would be such a pain in the...

[Duelle]

More emphasis on player-owned chocobos without the waste that was FFXI's chocobo raising system. If they HAVE to implement raising/taming (as much as I don't want them to), they really need to make a baseline chocobo available to those who want to move around but don't want to play the RNG-dominated raising game.