The big Chocobo researchFollow

I can't believe my luck. I barely even know anyone with a colored choco, especially ones that weren't 100k each card. But then a miracle happened. My friend's chocobo from Jeuno turned Black. Then my LS mate's turned Green. Mine is now turning Blue. And today, my other friend's is turning Red! Within a week, I went from not having access to any colors, to having access to all the colors.

If your on Quetzalcoatl and need a specific color. /tell Destend. I can tell you who to get one from. Whether they charge or not is up to them.

Tarage, I always make sure my bird is completely full (but not to the point of "your chocobo seems to be forcing itself to eat.")

I think, and don't quote me on this, that the amount of food you feed it correlates to how much energy it has the next day. So if you feed it until it's completely full, it'll have more energy to begin with the next day. If you don't feed it all the way, it'll have less energy (less affection too, maybe? I'm not sure.)

I thought that you needed to retain a small amount of energy for the next day's care plan.

I have heard this and experimented with it at the start of the choco raising addition to ffxi. I raise 10 birds at a time with 10 mules and am now about to start my 4th Generation. Counter to what most people said or thought I noticed that some things that we thought were a reaction to what we were doing in raising the birds was actually in fact just random events programed to happen with a degree of predictability. For example with 10 at once all starting on the same day but given different plans and foods because of the different results I wanted I found that they all seemed to need a toko grass within a day or two of each other! They got bored and needed to be raced about the same time, They even failed their Care Plans within a day or two of each other!!! A very definate pattern that (at least to me) shows that these things are set to happen no matter how well we take care of the birds and try to prevent them. If I had not been raising so many at exactly the same time I never would have noticed this. After 3 sets of ten birds a set, there was definately something going on! Don't over look the fact that [IF YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG YOU CAN DEFINATELY BRING PLAN FAILURE AND SICKNESS ON} but even doing it correctly a set amount of sickness and such is going to happen {on the average} but with a few exceptions here and there to make the game seem more real. FFXI love using the random factor! LOL So no need for someone to reply to this and say "MY BIRD NEVER GOT SICK BECAUSE I DID ..." I said on the average but with some exceptions.

With all the above said I personally have not experianced ANY difference from the birds that I completely depleted energy on and the ones I left some energy. I did personally raise several birds in the beginning each way because I'm too sceptical to take one persons word for how something works from their one experiance. I listen to them and then check it out on a larger scale to prove it for myself. I honestly believe the person who made the above post, and that their results were indeed like they claim but I disagree with that being the the average way it works out for most birds. If you use enough energy (either completely depleting or only almost depleting the bar) to get your bird to eat 3 vomp carrots for example (3 is an accurate number) then you are using enough energy the previous day, but if it will only eat 2 carrots then you didn't use enough energy. I've found this to be a hard solid fact with no ill affects on the bird. Bare in mind that often you will not actually be able to follow a set 3 carrots a day but actually occasionally need to feed a toko grass, or maybe Sharug grass for obvious reasons but the idea is to use enough energy the day before to allow the bird to hold the 3 carrots or whatever your particular plan calls for.

I don't see that pattern, non of my current four chocobos has ever failed his or her care plan. I even had a strength/endurance First-Class doing Dig for Treasure, birdy never made a mistake.

We have a misunderstanding here, sorry. By saying that a bird failed it's care plan it is ment that when delivering packages it dropped some or maybe when exhibiting to public it made some children cry. So far it seems that when these failures happen you will notice that your bird starts out with a slightly less amount of energy than it would have if it had done an excellent job also some speculate that your stat increase from doing these plans doesn't go up as much on the days you drop your packages or make kids cry but that is only a guess (one I agree with) as we can't actually see the stat increases unless they are enough to make a jump from say "average" to "better than average". If you raised a bird to First Class and NEVER once had ANY care plan fail you are indeed an exception! If you raised 4 birds without ever have a single one drop a package, make a kid cry, not find something while digging I would call that a miricle and take my hat off to you :-) I've raised 30 so far and I'm on my way to 40 and can't recall (although maybe it happened) ever having one make it to retirement without failing a single care plan. Digging for Treasure would be something like "Didn't find anything" while a successfull Dig would be "You wouldn't believe what it found!"

What I was refering to in the post you replied to was that when raising 10 birds at the same time as I usually do and starting them all on the same day but with different care plans I noticed that occasionally (maybe twice in the raising process) within 1 or 2 days of each other possibly 7 out of 10 birds would "fail their plan, ie: drop packages or make a kid cry" it can be noted that I always keep affection at "parent" level for all birds I'm raising through out their raising starting with a cupid worm for their first feeding so I can safely rule out affection having anything to do with failing a plan. Also these results or obsevations have repeated themselves with each group that I raise making it certain that something is programed to happen here by those who write the code to make the game work (but with a random factor thrown in). BASICALLY, A CARE PLAN FAILURE IS NOT ALWAYS YOUR FAULT!

Also, don't misunderstand me, I'm not trying to argue the point with you. I only post here to try to help others, share what I've learned, and learn from others myself. :-)

Probably been asked a thousand times but I can't spend hours searching this thread. I need the Worrisome and YOung stories.

San Doria: Story of an Impatient Chocobo.
Windurst: Story of a Young Chocobo.
Bastok: Story of an Worriesome Chocobo.

So if you are raising in Sandy you will get the stories on regular walk (La theine) and the long walk. (Jugner).

Of your raising in Windy you get Young at short walk and Worriesome with regular walk.

Dont know for bastok if you meet the sandy trainer or the windy trainer for a regular walk.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2007 9:53am by GimliNL

Outlawbiker, what percentage of your greenXgreen matings are not green? day19 & my greenXgreen is a lovely nondescript yellow teen.... /cry... I know nothing about his green parents except their color. Do you think it worth my effort to try to cross him back to a green or just ditch him & keep trying to trade my red cards for more green cards till I succeed at getting a pair of greens (which may well not breed true as well). Have you seen any pattern in the green genetics yet? If chocobos truely carry 3 color genes then I think the yellow male that fathered a red daughter possibly had 2 red genes. When I mated him back to the red daughter twice I got 2 more reds. I wish I had the capabilities to make several more of the same breeding to see if I continue to get reds. Thankyou for any advice you can offer me.

The green + green is puzzling. Why is it different than the others?
One thing I am seeing is that it, and black, are the only none primary colors.
Black operates differently than green in the color spectrum though.

What I am wondering is if blue + yellow might be as logical of outcomes as green since green is a combination of blue and yellow.

If this is so is it possible that Green + Blue is more likely to result in green, or at least blue, than green + green?

This is just off the top of my head but it makes a certain amount of sense to me. Naturally this thought occurs just 5 days after turning in two green cards to NPC.

how in the hell can a choco have 3 color gene pairs? Sitting here thinking about it & how they could be passed down. Here's a purely speculative theory - could genetic material be coming from the type of egg as well as from the parents????? Something like 2 genes from each parent & 2 from the egg type or maybe 3 from each parent & 1 from the egg then a random shuffle to produce 3 pairs. Wonder if 1st generation eggs even have a full complement of 3 pairs color genes? Would throw what appeared to be a random factor in to straight inheritance genetics. Green appears to be the least dominate of all the colors but, unlike real life where a recessive population of anything tends to produce more recessives since thats all the genetic material they have to pass on, greenXgreen matings produce apx. 50% non-green offspring. Other fancy colored chocos breed true & greens are different. Everything is dominate over green? 1 pair of any other gene color will express over 2 gene pairs of green? Does it take a green gene all 3 pairs or 2 double green pairs of genes? Is it the order in which the genes are displayed in the birds program?

Right now my choco (Black Female) has "Average" descernability and "A bit deficient" receptability to learn Regen and Gallop.

But in the end I want Strength and Endurance. If I switch training plans now can she still learn the 2 abilities?