Warning: Sudden Chocobo Death SyndromeFollow

I'm sure someone has gotten to this before I have but I felt it important information and something I should post regardless.

My friend told me today that after placing his chocobo on the "Rest" care plan, his chocobo didn't wake up at the end of the cycle. It remained permanently asleep. I called a GM about this, and GM Landisl responded to my call. Apparently it is a known and very real game glitch in the chocobo raising process. Landisl didn't have a lot of information to give me aside from that. He wished me luck in raising, and referred to this as a morbid sort of chocobo SIDs... So apparently SE is in the process of finding a solution to this glitch... But until they do it's recommended you do not place your chick on the "rest" care plan. You may want to hold off on raising for awhile, or use the "basic care" plan to give your chocobo some rest without actually resting it. The glitch is not a 100% of the time thing... but I personally don't want to take the chance.

To those who've already placed their chocobo's on a rest plan, I pray for the safety of your chick. My fiancee put hers to rest tonight and wasn't able to get back to San d'Oria in time to change it. She went to bed very upset with this information.

Wow, thx for the info, good thing I havnt done rest yet >.>
And GL to your fiancee, I hope her chocobo is o.k in the end.

Edited, Aug 29th 2006 at 1:09am EDT by Sharpen

SE knows about this glitch, they are not going to allow everyone's chocobos to die off (is that even possible?) or else they know they are going to have a lot of angry girls going all KYAAAAAA on them. They'll be fine. XD

sleeped one day, listen music the next day, and she woked up. now says something about she kept getiing awake, was disturbed, or something like that

this really sucks for those people who feed them 100k+ on food b4 sleeping them~

Hmm.... I think my chocobo has the sleeping sickness too....hope she wakes up soon....

You're lucky you got landisl, one of the nicest GMs around... He even condones Windower.

I have to agree, he was very very polite and actually seemed to care. He told me this happened to one of the lady GM's he knows and he was very sad about it >.< As of now there's no real way to fix it, just try to be mindful of it. Landisl did say that SE is working on the problem right now, and it is a well known issue. So hopefully we'll see an update soon ^^. It may even be possible for chicks suffering from this to wake up after it's fixed... so don't lose hope if you think you're dealing with the sickess. All new software has glitches.... this is just a very sad one :( With some luck SE will fix it with haste.

>.> It's amazing that people keep replying to threads that begin with mentioning a GMcall and the GM saying it's a known bug by saying, 'That's no bug, you just don't understand the care plan.'

I spoke to [GM]Koenigspiel about this and he said pretty much the same thing. This is indeed a bug and they're working on fixing it.

Just got hit with this myself.. Guess I don't have to worry about checking in on my little guy for a while >.>

Weird, because my chocobo went through the same cutscene and didn't wake up afterwards.

Glad yours woke up though.

*sighs* I am having this issues as well. I had it set on the care plan to sleep for one day. She was at 1/3 enegery. The day after was Listen to Music, Basic, Then Walk around the town. Since the sleep, she hasn't woken up but still does the other care plan activies. When the CS finishes she is still asleep. I cannot feed her and all she has done is lose enegery. ...today she ran out... /panic Not sure whats going to happen next. ; ;

Contact tech support through the help desk in the POL viewer. They seem to be looking at this on a case by case basis, and so far that's the only real advice the GMs have been able to give.

I'd just put the poor thing down (failed babies are sad but they happen) but I figure it's worth waiting if it helps them figure out the problem.