Chocobo bug: Sleeping Beauties (Warning about Resting)Follow

For anyone worried about their chocobo sleeping, mine was stuck in a sleep cycle before the "white handkerchief/crying all night" thing, so its been sleeping longer than most. But today it DID wake up.. it was starving, it had no energy, and it lost affection for me like nuts and barely liked me in the end, but it did wake up and I'm nurturing it back to full everything now.

I'm glad its finally awake.

Edited, Aug 31st 2006 at 10:31pm EDT by karmakina

After four days of my chocobo being asleep with no energy whatsoever, she was awake when I went to check on her today. So I don't know if SE did some tweaking or whatever but she did end up waking up. Figured you guys would want to know.

WTF??? Sorry dude but,....

Despite the GMs saying there was a problem, reading the current reports, I am beginning to think it isn't a bug. Instead it looks an aspect of sleeping that we just haven't figured out yet. I don't mean we don't understand the care-plan, I mean we don't understand the full consequences of the rest bit on it.
No matter whether or not it is a bug, I think we should try and find what triggers the start, and what triggers the end, in the only way regular players have to figure out anything about FFXI: Collecting and processing data. I'll keep recording my findings in my Chocobo Diary.
I will be careful with Royal Flurry, but I think that once he is out of the raising process, I will go over the data collected till then and raise me another chocobo testing the theories out at that time. I know I am no good at analyzing data, so I will leave that to others, while I only contribute a record of my own doings/results.

As for the "I pay $13 so why can't they make it perfect" and comparing software to cars, I feel the need to stress that a piece of computer software is much more complex than a car. In fact, there are mathematicians that can show that any program of over 10000 lines (and trust me, that is a small program) has an unlikely small chance of not having at least one imperfection. I am guessing at the the number of lines in FFXI, but I expect it to be 5 million at least. I base this on my personal experience as a programmer, taking into account the development time of FFXI. If anyone is interested in such things, look up the websites of mathemtics and information technology departments of universities. I'm sure there will be some serious reading on this topic there.
Comparing this to a car? Like cars are always made without imperfections? I see messages of recalls every now and then. And since the introduction of computers to control cars, I even see cars that need a reset. If cars aren't perfect, don't expect the more complex computer software to be.
I think Nourredin should really stop playing. His disappointment doesn't mean I (and others with me) am disappointed. As far as I can tell the game isn't bad an corrupted. SE does their best to fix problems as they are found, which is all we can expect of them. Really, if he thinks he has (or should have) legal problems with FFXI, he should quit. Or rather, he should have quit already.

Aloof, I'm calling the ASPCA on you for Chocobo cruelty. ;.;

;)

omg... it's worse than I thought.

I obviously need to bomb your mog house and set all of the animals free.

I shudder to think what you're doing to that poor moogle...

Update on my chocobo:

Checked it last night before bed, it took another walk in town with the trainer and was promptly asleep AGAIN for the 5th day. Still starving and "doesn't care for me now". *sigh* Debating on if my baby is stuck in this loop forever and if I should just start over..

I did do a bug report, got a email stating "they'd look into it".

has anyone received the message "your chcobo has NOT been waking every morning" and then have their choco go into the coma?

it's weird because when i put mine to sleep (2nd day after egg hatch) I got the message "You choco IS waking every morning" and never had a problem. And i have 3 times gotten the perky choco message "Your choco seems to be high spirits" but only after the waking up every morning.

others seem to wake up after the message "Your choco is waking every morning" Apparently this message has a reset effect causing the choco to come out of the coma. I wonder if your choco is suppose to do this, only not stay sleep all day.

For isntance, you get message "Your choco is NOT waking every morning" so when you first check your choco, it is sleep. When you do a care plan, like watch over it, its suppose to wake up. OR When you first check the choco it is sleep. maybe a few hours RL later it is suppose to wake up.

Maybe it's suppose to that until you get message "it's been waking every morning" then with each status report, he is awake. maybe THAT'S the bug.

I actually can't remember encountering a 'not waking every morning' message. I'll keep a close watch on Air Express to see if I get one.

I've never seen a transcript of a GM saying it's not a problem at all, so I wouldn't phrase that as a quote. Thing is, if you tell a GM:

"I set my chocobo to resting yesterday and then it spent the day asleep today"

or something along those lines, then they will tell you that it's not a problem and that you're not understanding the care system. It really depends on how the question is phrased.

It's the same as how someone managed to (out of context) get one of the GMs to say fraps was bannable-- when the GM asked what fraps was and they said, 'It's a third-party program that lets you take screenshots.' We know fraps is not actually third-party, it's not a party to the agreement because it doesn't interact with the POL software.

Ask the question with the wrong information and you get the wrong answer.

But I went to great lengths (see page 2) to clarify this after people started saying GMs were telling them it was not a bug. And it was confirmed as a known issue. I asked her if this was the way the sleep function was supposed to work. She said there was a known issue regarding some chocobos not waking up on time. Not everybody who has a chocobo asleep has the bug so of course she's going to say 'this could be the problem', because she's not tech support and she can't see what they can. I emailed tech support, and two days later, my chocobo was released. Whether the waking message was a coincidence due to a lot of tech support emails going off at the same point in the process or not I don't know.

I urge anybody with a choco in this state who is confused to go ahead and talk to a GM, describe exactly what's happening and ask if it's supposed to happen. Ask them if it's a bug or not. That's all it takes. I wish like hell I'd known I needed to install fraps rather than rely on alt-printscreen but if you really think I'm lying about this just go ahead and find out for yourself.

Just do me a favour and quit hinting at it based on nothing more than people pulling information out of their imaginations, k? Because it just breaks my brain that imaginary info > real info. *headache*

From the 3 pages choc full of info, I have come to a conclusion -

This is your chocobo either faced with fatigue/stress or the handkerchief quest.

Get over it. (Don't Flame Me If I'm Wrong <.<)