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Mine grew up! yay!

Name: FireMelodie
Sex:Female
Age: 19 Days
Stage: Adolescent
Colour (current): Yellow with white tips
Area: Sandy
Egg type: Bit warm *quested*

Stats: All poor

Personality: Military ^^ yay!
Affection: regards as a parent

My usual care *for chick* short walk x 3 and watch over x 8-9
Care schedule *for chick* normally walk through town 2-3 days a time and listen to music 1-2 days a time

For Adolescent my care was 2 regular walks, a story and 2 watches.

With the military personality i'm hoping mine has at least some traits of a Destrier so i will focus on strength and so on, i know some people stats have reached substandard, did you focus completely on one aspect or did you vary but mainly keep to that one aspect?

Name: Night Illusion
Age: 19 Days
Color: Yellow with Blue/Greyish looking tip feathers. (if the racing chocobo for competitions is black, then for sure mine is Blue)

Usual Feed: Vomp Carrots with a mix of 2 parasite worms and a couple pastes in the 2-3 week span.

All status weak: (will probably start changing tomorrow)

Excelent Condition: Ideal for carring Packages: Patient.

Current Plans:
0: Exercise Alone
1: Delivery Packages
2: Forgot lol
3: Exercise in a group.

Now it shall get annoying, imo, on how many schedules will start.

I took it for 2 medium walks after an elixir fill up: One was being challenged. I eventually accepted the challenge and lost by a chocobo length. I probably should have waited a little more.

Hello! My chocobo became an adolescent today, so I thought I'd add my info for reference:

Name: Merciless Mister
Sex:Male
Age: 19 Days
Stage: Adolescent
Colour (current): Yellow with black tips
Area: Bastok
Egg type: Bit warm (bought)

Stats: Poor

Personality: Military
Affection: Parent

My care for it as a chick was all walks with a few musics thrown in. He rested two days and was under the coma glitch, but woke up when I got the handkerchief. I fed him mostly carrot paste and sandy carrots, but once he got a worm paste, and once a Parasite Worm ( on a 'high spirits' day.) He also got one of the mental carrot things, and Sharug Greens. I think I gave him vegetable paste once and he didn't like it.

I'd like to add that I almost always left him with no less than 1/4 stamina each day. He has not become sick and went into 'high spirits' mode three times. I wondered if maybe they're more likely to become sick when tired.

(MademoiselleMorte - I stole your form! Thank you. :o )

yeah its a typo

o.O anyways here's my choco's stats

Shadow Gale

Strength: Substandard
Endurance: Poor
Discernment: Poor
Receptivity: Poor

Regards me as a parent

Was a little hungry (Took me 2 vomp carrots to make him full, 1st one made him almost full)

It is ill tempered, making it ideal for military use

No weather preference

No abilities

I was really surprised by the substandard Strength but it kinda bothers me endurance isn't substandard too lol. . i didn't really make a diary but i did remember. . .

egg gotten from quest (i think a bit)
egg phase: check once every day
chick phase: 6 vegetable paste
1 gyashyl green
6-7 carrot paste
check once every day
take a walk 2-3 times a day (i think i met other trainer a total of 5x) basic care plan x4
listening to music plan x1
take a walk plan x9

Did anyone else get the trainer saying "Just look at that color!"
The lighting is mostly crappy, it looks as if mine just has the whitish tips...

Offtopic, but does anyone have a more updated dat list for the viewer?

I posted this in another choco thread, and it seems like everyone else's has grown up a bit also^^


Day -18 and -19

My choco woke up from it's coma on one of these days, starving, and in the next stage of size... teenager? He's starting to change colour, still mostly yellow, but blue/grey around the edge of his tail and head feathers (I'm hoping for a black choco :D). He's slightly ill as well, and paste fills him only about half as well as it did when he was a chick. I'm gonna wait till he's feeling better to take him for a walk in LTP, although I may try telling him a story while he's sick to make him feel better. :3

I can now Take him for a Walk (regular) (to La Theine Plateau since I'm in San d'Oria) Tell him a Story, and Scold him all in the Care for Your Choco menu. In the Set up Care Plan the full list of things I can ask them to do with my choco is available (as listed in the POL Viewer before you log into the game).

Hope this helps anyone doing "research" on how to raise and get certain results.

I'm just so happy he isn't in a coma anymore!!! :3

I agree that the lighting is crap but I am pretty sure mine is yellow with whitish grey tips.

So I assume yellow.

The trainer did say to "look at that color"

I got excited and then saw her.

All stats are poor, no personality but lots of energy. I'm the parent.

I got all the new options with the LeThiene trainers CS

Race, carry packages etc

Ive been getting the "i hope we can turn this animal into a fine chocobo" every time i feed my little chick. I'm on day 15 right now, so not at the adolecent phase like most of you are.

I started out with Veggie paste - and only veggie paste - for the first 15 days. Recently, for pretty much no reason at all, i switched to A. Greens, and now i get "...gobbles it up in one bite" as opposed to "eats the ____"

Im not sure which is better, or whether me changing things may have set a new course, but oh well. Its just odd to me that i get the "i hope we can make this animal into a fine chocobo" every time i feed her.

4 more days 'til adolecense. With my luck, i'll get a Black, emo chocobo that will sit in my mog house listening to Linkin Park while painting his claws with black nail polish... "You did this to me mom!" he'll say "You should have never switched my food as a baby!"

Then he'll ask me to drive him to the mall >.<

I would like to report something here.
<Choco Report>
Name; Comet Challanger.

I started out chocobo raising, as giddy as a school girl.
I went over to Ru'Lude gardens (oh, the lag), and bought myself an egg. Slightly warm, hardboiled. xD
Anyway. I went onwards to windurst (my home) and traded the egg over.
Soon enough, I was staring at my egg.
4 Days later, after retuning each day and watching over it, it had hatched and I was looking at my cute little baby chocobo.
I took it for a walk, and got the first cut-scene first time.
I took her for more walks and watched over her each time I took her for a walk.
A few days passed, and I continued my routine of watching over and walking (three times each), while giving her the food she needed and rotating her care program to give her the things she needed and a good variation of things to do. So, every two days the activity will change for her.
She has just hit about day 17~18 and she is now adolescent.
I've noticed those patches of black feathers on her, and I'm wondering if she'll be able to turn into a black chocobo?
I sure hope so, but then again looking at reports from people delving into the models it seems like there is no normal yellow chocobo adolescent.
On top of this, the Black chocobo is a San'dorian variant. While raising in Windurst, this would be a rare thing to occur. Seems strange to me if it does grow up to be black.
It would be nice, but it'd be strange...
I'll have to wait and se what happens.
Oh, another thing.
I recieved a cut-scene on her first "Walk (Normal)" just like I did on her first "Walk (Short)", perhaps suggesting that these CS's are really love-based.
Anyway, there are those three guys raising the "Ultimate" chocobo which is balanced in all areas.
This gave me the option to allow my chocobo to compete, and when it did I narrowly beat their chocobo.
I gained nothing from this, except the satisfaction of seeing the look on their faces, a little STR for my chocobo, and a new cut-scene of chocobo racing around the fountain in windurst.
Perhaps some more cut-scenes will follow, I sure hope so.
Possibly you'll see them throughout the training phase, and gain some ultimate chocobo item after defeating them for the final time.
They act all pro, "lolx u nub, u no noffink abut chobo raisng lolx., i r training 4 strnth hez traing 4 intelignc n hez traing 4 sped" but they ... they just suck.
I would like to see some kind of Face-off between Pulonono's chocobo, my chocobo, and their's.
CometChallanger would win any day. ;D

[Edit] And of course, there were several new options for the care scedule and things.
I can now show her off for a few gil (a bit a gander), scold her, race her, take her on longer walks, play with chocobos, play with children, train alone, train in a group, deliver packages, and ... one more I forgot that is acts like the package delivery. [/Edit]

Edited, Sep 10th 2006 at 11:38am EDT by Kirol

http://gof-lan.mine.nu/ffxi/chocobo/choc6.jpg priceless ^^

I checked ol swift this morning before work, and he did in fact get older, his feathers looked grey to me but i only had a limited care time because of work. Looking at the .dat mine pic, it is unlikely that almost everyone got the SAME kind of adolescent, the lighting or resolution must make it hazy. AND remember, rounseys (sp?) arent the only yellow chocos. in ALL of the breed descriptions it says that colors are rare: "on rare occasions, a red courser will be born" ect. So if your choco is yellow as an adult, that doesnt mean it isnt the breed you want. I am hoping for a courser or a destrier, aand all my stats are still poor... I'll look closer at it after my schedule cools down a bit.


I hate being too poor to afford things like chocolixers... I felt i didnt get enough time with my newly teen-aged choco.

If anyone is on midgardsormr and can make chocolixers, it'd be nice if i could have a discount... ^_^;

Edited, Sep 10th 2006 at 4:10pm EDT by Grenfang