Chocobo bug: Sleeping Beauties (Warning about Resting)Follow

OK, I need fraps, because PrintScreen did not work again ><. Since people are claiming GMs are now saying that this is NOT a bug, I decided to make sure I wasn't spreading false information. [GM]Cayenne seemed to know a lot less about the chocobo system, but did mention there is a known problem, though she said 'possible' unlike the GMs last night who said 'known bug'. Taken from my text chatlogs, unedited (wish those temp logs lasted longer >.>):



I hate making unnecessary GMcalls and this was my second GMcall ever (><) but considering how many people keep trying to say this is not a bug I figured I should do my best to confirm.

Reason I did was that I don't want to sit around waiting for a fix if there is not going to be one, and if anyone else is in the same position they're probably sitting around wondering if they should start over or hang in there waiting for tech support to get it right.

So there you have it, some chocos are NOT waking up when they should and this is NOT an intended feature of the system. If you have a sleeping chocobo that won't wake up on time I would mail tech support and hopefully those of us having this problem will get some kind of remedy.

[edit: I can't believe I have to specify the bolded, but I probably do.]

Edited, Aug 29th 2006 at 5:33pm EDT by Aloof

Yeah, that's what I thought too, it may be that they're having trouble tracking down what causes the bug. Considering some people are spontaneously recovering from it, it does make sense that they would need some time to identify what's going on.

Plus, I'm sure some people who actually didn't understand care plans may have made false reports before waiting to see if their chocobo would wake when it was supposed to. Considering how many people here are making the opposite mistake, I wouldn't be surprised.

I hope you don't have to. :(

I had mine set to rest for two days. After the first day I got the white hankerchief mini-event. Today I read about this and was praying my chocobo would wake up.

I went today for my update and I saw the cutscene where the NPC took my chocobo chick for a walk, and afterwards she told me that thanks to the hankerchief my chocobo had been sleeping better lately, and that she had been waking up every morning lately.

So for those of you with a stuck chocobo, did it give you the white hankerchief quest? Try setting its schedule to rest again, not like anything bad can happen if it is stuck sleeping anyways, maybe you need to trigger this event.

I did get the hankie and when she took it back said that it would help my chick sleep better. hahahaha

Anyway well that is an idea I sure never considered. In a few more days might just try it.

*I'm posting this on my boyfriend's account since I don't have one*

I'm on the Ifrit server and my poor lil' chocobo got caught in this bug. I had it set for one day of rest and it was still sleeping two days later. I still got the walking through town and hanky CSs but it never actually woke up. The guy said he was starving and I was just afriad of how this would effect it it the long run. So instead of waiting for SE to get off it's butts to fix it I just decided to start over. Now I was feeling bad about this to begin with (emotional female, laugh if you must) but damn that Elvaan jst made me feel worse and worse when I clicked the 'Give up Raising' options. SE gives me no choice but to give up and then they have to pull my heart strings even more.
Well damn you all...I should feed your hearts to my new chocobo to make up for losing it's brother. :P





Edited, Aug 30th 2006 at 12:14am EDT by Staniv

I'm not sure if the hanky thing is related to the sleep issue or not. My chocobo has been sleeping for 3 days now. 3 days ago it was on rest. Yesterday listen to music and today basic care, all of which I got CS for but it shows my chocobo sleeping due to fatigue the last two days. I am unable to feed it and it has been starving the last two days. I got the hanky yesterday and turned it in yesterday. Today I got the message that it seems to have helped and yet my chocobo is still sleeping due to fatigue. My plan is currently on basic care (which npc tells me its on) but yet my chick sleeps due to fatigue. :/ Hopefully tomorrow my chick will wake up since it is resting better now that it has the hanky. Also as a side note my chocobo likes me less as I have been unable to care for it for three days. It went from wants to be with you all the time to likes you a lot. /sigh

I'll post if it wakes up tomorrow after my next 'day' is over. Then possibly the fatigue was due to it being unable to sleep since it missed me so much and the hanky allowed it to finally get a night's rest. We shall see.

Mine woke up today as usual. Maybe your babies have caught flu or something...

In another topic it was suggested to leave the chick sleeping. In other words, while it is sleeping don't even choose to watch over it. Do check on it, but do not do anything to care for it.
If it turns out that this is not a bug, it may be something like: Chocobo goes to sleep and recovers stamina. If it does not have stamina to recover it wakes up. Watching over chocobo costs a bit of stamina. So each day you watch over it while it is asleep, it will be asleep for at least another day.

My little guy hasn't woken up for a few days now. He is crying in his sleep, and starving... Changed the care plan a few days ago also. I hope that when this is fixed, our future choco stat.s are not effected! Still pissed about not being able to make my own name... I really hoping to name mine after my beloved RL pet. So I don't want to start over with left-over word picks.

Don't want my choco to become a problem later on, because of how he was raised. lol Is it possible that maybe the first careplans choosen aren't erased after they are changed? When I first planned it, I mistakenly thought the set days were in game-days and not RL days. Thought maybe he was acting out the original care-plan that had since been changed. Like they all added up. Sure SE will fix soon, Choco raising isn't a quick fix. It's just I really don't like hearing about him screaming and crying in his sleep, while being very starved.

Why can't we wake them up when we want? So we can care for them accordingly to our scheduales(sp*). And tend to their growth after a decent nap. Put them back to sleep after a feeding. Or make feeding a part of the careplan, leave food and what not. So NPC can keep them feed while your away adventuring and farming. This planning a 1 day at a time thing seems poorly planned. A few more simple explanations through chat text would help a great deal towards understanding.


Personaly i think some online or in-store (hardcopy) Guides would be a great thing. I'd pay to own a guide for just choco raising! Or geez make a bunch. Like D & D guides. Have a guide for each job, craft, bestiary/NMs, Choco raising/racing, missions/storylines... I would love to collect these seperate guides! Never really liked the limited gather online info. I started playing games because I didn't play well with others. Community is a good thing, but you could make some money!









Edited, Aug 30th 2006 at 10:18am EDT by SothsayerAtlantis

@Alrefie: Why are you (and others) complaining about the cost of food? Unless your chick is ill or something, Gysahl Greens you buy cheaply at the chocobo stable merchant is fine. If you think it is kind of rude to force a chick to eat unprocessed greens, making paste out of it isn't that hard. Also, San d' Orian Carrots should be pretty cheap to get.
I have been feeding Royal Flurry Vegetable Paste (made of those cheap greens) and am now working on growing at least the grasses in case he gets ill. If you do the readup on things, you can do a lot yourself without having to complain about the people taking advantage of the situation.

First off, I want to say that I think this little quest is adorable. A very cute little addition to Chocobo raising. :D

So last night, I checked in on Gallant Angel, and she was pretty distressed. Poor little thing seems to think of me as a parent and wasn't sleeping well. (I know, that's already been addressed as part of the quest, but I wanted to brag on my chocobo.) I received the handkerchief at 18:00 or so Vana 'diel time. I sat myself down next to the stables until a new Vana 'diel day. Went back to Hantileon, and didn't get anything special for the handkerchief. So I zoned into North Sandie, turned around and came back into South Sandie. Went straight to the stables, talked to Hantileon, and he took the hankie back.

I love this part of the game, I'm so excited they added it. I just wish I could take a picture or two of my baby for her baby book. :(