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#102 Aug 22 2006 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
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Someone has been playing with their .dat files.
#103 Aug 22 2006 at 9:55 AM Rating: Decent
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well he posted for us to all hurry up and get our egg into the stables befor they patched it up.

This guy isn't one to kid around like that but I was actually hoping a few others would confirm/deny the story for me since I haven't seen it in person.

Once I log in tonight I'll see if I can take a look at the birdie.
#104 Aug 22 2006 at 10:26 AM Rating: Decent
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Damn it you were in fact correct on the .dat swapping lol.

Was a cool looking birdie though.
#105 Aug 22 2006 at 10:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Is there a way you can find out your chocobo's gender depending on the type of egg handed over to chocoboperson? ie....Slightl warm, bit warm etc



Well if the egg is ie. incredibly cold, it will probably grow up to be my ex girlfriend.
#106 Aug 22 2006 at 10:58 AM Rating: Good
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xbobx wrote:
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Is there a way you can find out your chocobo's gender depending on the type of egg handed over to chocoboperson? ie....Slightl warm, bit warm etc



Well if the egg is ie. incredibly cold, it will probably grow up to be my ex girlfriend.


HAHA!

This update looks pretty sweet!
#107 Aug 22 2006 at 11:04 AM Rating: Decent
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I would have to say Photochop!.

There is no way unless they are on the developement group that they could have a fully grown Choco at this time.

#108 Aug 22 2006 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
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I didn't notice the .dat comment before I posted. That is a mean trick.

I feel for all those who are waiting patiently/not so patiently for their Choco to hatch. My wife is currently 3 weeks to term and is getting very very impatient.



Edited, Aug 22nd 2006 at 12:23pm EDT by Swasster
#109 Aug 22 2006 at 11:14 AM Rating: Decent
No need to edit the image when you can just export and edit the texture and reimport.

Theres a chocobo section at FFXIDats.com, which I'm sure will be booming within a month or so...
#110 Aug 22 2006 at 11:48 AM Rating: Good
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I'm hoping that (as in FFVII) a well-raised well-trained choco will have a better chance of breeding odd colours and combinations.

If they went with Tactics system it would kinda suck (and you'd occasionally get very weird progeny)
#111 Aug 22 2006 at 12:20 PM Rating: Good
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Know what will be really sweet about this... No more logging into Yho[tab] Jungle, out of sneak/invis items, and no one around to cast it on you and you need a way back to kazaam... bloodporting with the new xp you gained in the pt the night before ftl! just call up your faithful stead ftw!

Theres plenty of great reason to raise a bird regardless of wether or not you want to race it. Mea's rental fee was 2167 on me once and recently was 1200+ during 3 RSE runs to the maze. >< This is gonna own. Nuff said. ;)
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#112 Aug 22 2006 at 6:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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People, I fully expect all bought and quested chocobo eggs to hatch yellow. There were hints in the various teasers by SE that although color (as different from the model changes based on abilities) would introduce 2 new colors in this patch, they would be atainable by breeding. So at the very fastest you'll have to wait a month and a quarter to possibly see the first color chicks.

This is definitely what I expect. And hope for, too.

Most people seem to want a colored bird right out of the egg, but that would really spoil it for me. I want to work for a colored chocobo, to make gradual progress towards it until one day I finally get one. Like in FF7, I want that blue/red/black/whatever bird to be something rare, something to be excited about when you first see it - and its stats should make it worth the wait. If you can reach your goal with your first egg within 2 days, then this minigame isn't going to hold anybody's attention for long.

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.

I'm sure a lot of people would like to start the game at 75 too, but does anyone really think that would be fun?
#113 Aug 22 2006 at 7:26 PM Rating: Decent
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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.
#114 Aug 22 2006 at 7:31 PM Rating: Good
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Colors most likely won't manifest until the adolescent chocobo's molt and grow a new coat.

OK. When they hatch and reach juvenile stage.
#116 Aug 22 2006 at 8:21 PM Rating: Decent
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I second that. I've had my egg in my inventory 'incubating' for nearly a month, I shouldn't have to wait this long for a damn baby chick.
#117 Aug 22 2006 at 9:16 PM Rating: Decent
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Valid point about the juvenile so the fastest will probably be a month and a half from now before we see any color.
#118 Aug 23 2006 at 1:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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It keeps saying the chick wants out....may be I should trade it a pickaxe..
#119 Aug 23 2006 at 1:53 PM Rating: Good
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PlanckZero wrote:
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.


I've been keeping quiet about this in-game, because of how many people have told me with utter certainty how their choco is going to be blue/black/red/purple/green/whatever based on cockamamie theories being passed around as fact. I am going to enjoy the mass panic when everybody's chicks come out yellow :-p
#120 Aug 23 2006 at 1:59 PM Rating: Decent
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.
#121 Aug 23 2006 at 2:40 PM Rating: Good
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Know what will be really sweet about this... No more logging into Yho[tab] Jungle, out of sneak/invis items, and no one around to cast it on you and you need a way back to kazaam... bloodporting with the new xp you gained in the pt the night before ftl! just call up your faithful stead ftw!

Theres plenty of great reason to raise a bird regardless of wether or not you want to race it. Mea's rental fee was 2167 on me once and recently was 1200+ during 3 RSE runs to the maze. >< This is gonna own. Nuff said. ;)
I agree. While I have no interest in breeding or racing big chickens, you cannot escape the utility of being able to summon a ride when you really need one.
#122 Aug 23 2006 at 3:27 PM Rating: Decent
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Alright, I'm gonna ask since my boyfriend just asked me and I couldn't answer him even after reading the section and the posts.... ;)

Is there a lvl requirement for breeding or raising? Or at this point does it still stand that the only lvl requirement is for riding???
#123 Aug 23 2006 at 3:45 PM Rating: Decent
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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.”

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. ;)

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/031027.jpg
#124 Aug 23 2006 at 3:49 PM Rating: Decent
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KillerMew wrote:
Alright, I'm gonna ask since my boyfriend just asked me and I couldn't answer him even after reading the section and the posts.... ;)

Is there a lvl requirement for breeding or raising? Or at this point does it still stand that the only lvl requirement is for riding???

I just took a Lv.1 mule to Jeuno for an egg, and then back to the Bastok stables. I traded my egg to the stables NPC and got the same c/s as my regular character, so it seems like the only level restriction is on riding.
#125 Aug 23 2006 at 5:00 PM Rating: Good
I have been thinking a lot about one aspect of the chocobo raising. If there are only 5 types of eggs, and eggs don't have any info or status associated (no info on parents, race, strength, etc.) How are the abilities or stats inherited from breeding? If the result of matching two black chocobos is for example an egg "a little warm", well that is the same egg that you could have bought at Jeuno. If that was the case there would be no point on having a long line of pure race chocobos for breeding, the chances of geting a black, red, green, blue or yellow chocobo would be the same as just buying an egg.

Now, you could think that each egg has "hidden" stats but I find that very unlikely. What if you have 10 eggs on your inventory with the same description and you just auto-sort?, how will you know wich one is the result of 10 generations of breeding and which is the one you just got from the ISNM?.

I believe the result from matching chocobos will be a chick and not an egg. A chick already have stats and maybe even have abilities inherited from his parents, though they may appear only when the chick has grown to a certain stage or maybe they will be "potential" abilities that will have to be triggered through the raising process.
#126 Aug 23 2006 at 5:28 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm on Ps2, so I don't know how much trouble this would be. I'm eager to see what a Jennet and coloured Jennet look like, could someone work the DAT. files and show pics of all the coloured chocobos?
If it's too much of a task well, let's wait and see!
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