A Realistic and Perfect Way to Implement Airships and Chocobos [dev1002][dev????]

[Takeshi_Eiketsu]

The OP's argument against the immediate implementation of chocobos is based solely from a transportation standpoint. There can be so much more to a chocobo than transportation. As it was said before, there is a valid argument of content. A chocobo can be raised, raced, used to dig, and maybe even bought and sold. Personally, I want to raise my own.

I agree, the raising aspect is one thing Im hoping they implement rather than just renting because renting is nice and all, but no really involvement there.

Now here is where chocobos come into play. Having the ability to mount would make it more of a reason to not use anima, and would help prevent having to use it for the three reasons I said above. Having your own mount influences you to see what is going on around you.

I figured no matter what, most people are going to take the quick way to places. Im one of the few who would take a chocobo to see extra places or potential opportunities (NM pop), but like the way the game currently is, people would rather fork up 50k or more for people to teleport them places rather than save and walk.

The Aetheryte system works just like XI's telepoint system, except everyone can do it at any given time, provided they have enough anima. Both require you to have touched the crystal or energy point at the wanted location...so why not just implement the expected function of chocobos now, and worry about additional functions later?

Two comments:

1) I think they want the game playable and as a source of income before they start adding in stuff like chocobos
2)While teleport acts like the teleport from FFXI, the fact that (like you said) anyone can do it, and that you can change jobs on the fly (u couldnt in FFXI) makes the dynamics of teleporting in FFXIV MUCH different.