Chocobo bug: Sleeping Beauties (Warning about Resting)Follow

I spoke to a GM tonight (Koenigspiel) about this, and apparently it's a known issue: If a chocobo is set to resting, even if its care plan is then changed, it can fall asleep and be impossible to wake. S/E is aware of the issue and they can't do anything but apologize. For now, I mean. I was told they were working on fixing it but he was pretty careful not to give me any expectations as to what would be done and when. [edit: He did, however, apologize several times.]

My chocobo executed the Taking a Walk care plan, but remained asleep and impossible to wake/feed, and its energy bar is all gone >.>

Edit for clarity's sake: The GM didn't know what caused it or how to avoid it, so it might be safer to avoid the 'Rest' plan completely until they have it worked out. Once it's stuck sleeping they had no advice on how to wake it or what to do. The chocobo isn't intended to get stuck sleeping while executing other care plans.

To repeat: When the bug occurs, the chocobo will continue to execute other care plans (listen to music, take a walk, etc) but remain stuck in 'Sleep' mode and cannot be fed. Some people have reported their chocos recovering spontaneously, others have been stuck for days.

Edited, Aug 29th 2006 at 8:44am EDT by Aloof

[further edit: Title changed to better communicate the warning]

Edited, Aug 29th 2006 at 2:51pm EDT by Aloof

So after ALL that fixing and the delaying of more additional chocobo additions, they completly missed this bug? WTF@THAT. Now what? Will my chocobo die of starvation? Or will he grow up weaker because now I'm S.O.L. because he's spending all this time sleeping instead of eatting food to raise his stats? Complete utter BS -_-.

It's SE you should be used to them jacking something up and apologizing for it. Just sucks since 90% of people have been waiting for this to be put into action and once again SE misses a "bug"

Nothing to see here, move along.

Was wondering why my choco had been sleeping for that last two days...

Well I'm not complaining so much as trying to let people know the bug is known and warn people who haven't encountered it not to rest their chocobos.

Figure it saves on time waiting for GMs and saves people who have been lucky enough not to encounter it yet.

This might give me an excuse to Give up raising one of my chocs.

I've received the Sandy 'Story of an Impatient' Chocobo Key Item, if I give up raising this narcoleptic choc and raise my next one say in the Bastokan stables, I should get the Bastokan Story, may be some kind of silver lining i suppose.

Yeah, i'm not mad at all, like I say, **** happens, just gotta deal with it, at least SE fixes their mistakes unlike other MMOs <_<;

I had my bird on rest plan set for 1 day, then listening music to be the next. Yes it rested for 1 day and i couldnt feed it, but it was awake today. Just thought I'd add that in >.>

No matter how you try to cut it is indeed SE's fault, it is your decision to assign how severely you want to blame them. Setting something to do something then have it permanently going into that state is a pretty big bug, though. By how common the OP is making it out to be and the several posts in this thread, it would seem that it wouldn't require that much testing to discover the existence of this bug.

So you're saying that because people overworked their chocobos one day, then set the chocobo to rest the next (An appropriate action, I would say), it will become hungry during the rest day, won't be able to recover any energy because it's hungry, won't be fed because it's sleeping, and won't stop sleeping until it recovers energy...I would have thought that S-E would have thought of this paradox of an endless loop and make it so resting recovers SOME energy even while hungry, so that it can wake up.

Think about it - you swig half a bottle of Nyquil, you sleep for a couple days, and when you finally wake up, you're very hungry. Thirsty too. And you probably have to **** like a horse. but after all that you feel like you could run a marathon.

Except mine was resting yesterday, listened to music today (which you wouldn't think would deplete it to zero energy, no?) and is sleeping again. Last time I got it near zero energy it regained it all and I fed it the next day, but now I can't feed it...

Grr, lets see how it goes tomorrow.

My thinking is that it should only be in the 'sleeping' state on days set to 'rest'...

Edited, Aug 28th 2006 at 10:21pm EDT by Ranzear

Well, mine wasn't depleted, and in fact the 'Resting' plan had been cancelled, I put it up by mistake and switched it to 'Walk Around Town' but when the day turned over it went into sleep mode anyhow. It was sleeping at full energy, in fact, though very hungry, through the day it was supposed to be walking around town. Then tonight the day turned over, I got the 'Walk Around Town' animation & report, and when it was over, the chocobo was still sleeping, only now its energy was at 0. Today it's supposed to listen to music, no idea what will happen honestly.

Anyhow, [GM]Koenigspiel said this is a known issue, and apologized a bunch of times... I forgot to put that in the OP here but he said they're very sorry for the inconvenience.

Bugs happen-- personally I think they should have added a 'wake up your choco' command.

Oh crud...


This can't be good.