ImmT of the Seven Seas wrote:
Am I the only one that isn't too excited about this?
Chocobo raising IMO is one of the few things keeping me wanting to play this game. From the sound of things, it’ll sure beat the tedium of xp grinding, mining, fishing, crafting, farming, doing quests/missions, etc. If this whole choco thing turns out to be a flop, the only real incentive I’ll have to play is my LS and the friends I’ve made in the community.
PlanckZero wrote:
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In a couple days when the eggs hatch and we realize that everybody's bird is yellow, there are going to be people shouting and screaming on this board how chocobo raising sucks, SE sucks, the system is bugged, etc. When that happens, I just hope you remember what I said here.
When the eggs all hatch they will all be yellow. Look at the dats that have been posted since the last big update. They have all the adult colored chocobos, only an adolescent yellow, and only the baby yellow.
Colors most likely won't manifest until the adolescent chocobo's molt and grow a new coat.
From
this picture it looks like not all adolescents will be completely yellow. The one on the left looks like a regular, yellow, juvenile chocobo while the ones in the middle have colored feather tips. And since these are black and blue tips and the only adults we’ve seen (outside of .dats of course) are black and blue, I’d assume these are probably the two colors SE added.
As far as the adolescent choco on the far right and the four adults on the right in that pic, I’m not sure what to make of them at the moment. Why would there be more than one type of blue/black adult choco? What the hell is that juvenile choco on the far right supposed to be? Why doesn’t the green adult choco (which I assume is Jennet) fit the description from the POL
article:
“This breed of chocobo has been magically reduced in size to provide mounts for the diminutive Tarutaru. They have short legs when compared to other breeds, but like the Tarutaru themselves, jennets are capable of maintaining a rapid pace. Due to a request from the southern Mithra wishing to blend into the jungle, there are some jennets that can be found in a shade of green.â€
I guess the green choco being regular sized could be chalked up to the same cause for why attributes are currently not influencing a chocobo’s appearance (mentioned
here).
Bah, I hate all this crackpot speculation! I wish the damn things would just hatch. >:|
Kerberoz wrote:
I'm 99% sure all the first generation chocobos will be yellow. Think about it. Would SE allow you to get a special chocobo in one try? Of course not. This is an MMORPG. It's a timesink.
What will probably happen: all chocobos hatched from the 5 eggs we can buy/quest/isnm will be yellow, with a random chance of carrying a recessive gene for one of the colored breeds, and the way you raise it will determine what traits get passed onto the offspring. You'll have to mate them until you end up with a colored breed.
Well, if it’s anything like VII, the secret to getting colored chocos is excessive inbreeding. ;)
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