Chocobo Grow Up

[Haggai]

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I guess it's all random on the egg, I think. I know several people who have gotten eggs from ISNM and one was black and the other way yellow. Same with the boughten eggs from Jeuno, and the eggs from the Chocobo on the Loose quest.

The most frustrating part is that we've all tediously watched over these things and almost everyone has the same stat values, barely any personality or any other distinguishing characteristics.

I'm starting to wonder if the system is broken.

I don't think it is broken. I think we are just getting into the nitty gritty now that they are adults. I think they will be more receptive to food and training/care.

[Nekomieu]

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I don't think it is broken. I think we are just getting into the nitty gritty now that they are adults. I think they will be more receptive to food and training/care.

Maybe, but we should see some sort of progress for a month's work. Honestly, a month is a very long time, especially in FFXI terms. Having poor stats all around doesn't make sense. The Care System was designed to fine tune their stat pools, right? Well, so far I personally, along with everyone else in my LS (roughly 50 people) have poor across the board. It doesn't make sense to have the system enabled from egg to adult, especially if we as players don't get results.. >_<;;

[Visper]

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I agree, basically just seems like a big money sink. Thank god I've been growing most of my own food - but those vomp carrots in the beginning killed me. If feeding it to them didn't make a difference while they where growing up then I just wasted a ton o gil. Why even turn on that option if it "technically" isn't functional till they're adults.

[Macht]

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Maybe, but we should see some sort of progress for a month's work. Honestly, a month is a very long time, especially in FFXI terms. Having poor stats all around doesn't make sense. The Care System was designed to fine tune their stat pools, right? Well, so far I personally, along with everyone else in my LS (roughly 50 people) have poor across the board. It doesn't make sense to have the system enabled from egg to adult, especially if we as players don't get results.. >_<;;

Mine has poor on strength and duration. It's had substandard for receptivity and disscernment since like Day 20. As far as I can tell it all just seems to vary on the chocobo itself. Seems they are born with certain stats they can improve greatly on while others stats don't progress as well.

[Lasareth]

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Since I haven't seen a SS of one here yet, here's a black choco:

[Loial]

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Mine has "a bit deficient" strength and endurance. No personality yet though.

What is strange is that I ran my bird against a bird with poor strength, to get the idea of the speed difference. The difference wasn't much. I was able to run nearly the entire length of sarutabaruta before the other choco was out of sight.

So, the difference between "tier 3" strength and "tier 1" strength wasn't all that much.

[Lambeaus]

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My chocobo grew up last night, and he is a black one. His strenght is substandard, everything else is still poor. I'm trying to find his hidden item now...he's caught me twice

[Thott]

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Meh mine is full grown pee color and has all poor stats >.>; Breeding is gonna take like 4 evr

[Nakti]

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My chocobo grew up last night, and he is a black one. His strenght is substandard, everything else is still poor. I'm trying to find his hidden item now...he's caught me twice

Try searching for the item when the chocobo is "absorbed" (not when he appears "very happy"). People have said they aren't caught by the chocobo that way.

edit: And congrats on the Black Chocobo! (Hopefully that's what you were aiming for.^^)

[Lambeaus]

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Try searching for the item when the chocobo is "absorbed" (not when he appears "very happy"). People have said they aren't caught by the chocobo that way.

I'll try that. Thanks!

[Lasareth]

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My chocobo seems to run fast enough to make me happy. As the chocboy says, rentals are bred specifically with strength in mind, so it's no wonder they're probably the fastest. I went for about 20 mins before I voluntarily dismounted. I'll probably try later to see how long I can go before it kicks me off.

What's most important is that he lasted well over the recharge time of the whistle. It's been worth the time spent raising it. Especially in situations where you can use one (leaving a yhoator party without homepointing, chocoing from the teleport-altep telepoint, etc...)

Thumbs up so far.

[Chveya]

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I'm beginning to have second thoughts about the way I have been raising my choco. Today will be day 28, and all of MomoDance's stats are still poor. I agree with the previous poster who said that we will probably experience better and quicker training once our chocos hit adulthood. But, I have to wonder, why even bother with care plans for the chocochicks/teenagers if they don't do squat.


For the first 15 days of its life (after hatching), my choco was on a strict regimen of Listen to Music. I was so scared of losing him to CSP, that I rarely took him on walks, and never used Take a Walk in Town as a care plan. I did not want him to get exhausted. My choco seemed to really like listening to music, and he developed an 'enigmatic personality' rather early on. (a note on that personality: the trainer says it means it is 'difficult to know what he is thinking' which is translating into me having no idea what his strengths and weaknesses are >< )

After he became a teenager, I began trying to train him to have endurance and strength. I've been poring over the care plan chart, you know, the ones with all the arrows showing stat increases/decreases. After looking at the way care plans affect status, it seems that all that Listening to Music may have created a giant sinkhole of physical stats. Am I going to have to work Momo hard just to get his physical attributes to appear?

I guess what I'm trying to say is: Does one day of Listen to Music cancel out one day of Walking in Town, leaving the choco with no stat increase overall? If so, that could explain why some people's chocos are still poor across the board. With my next choco (and I'm seriously thinking of starting over if the adult phase is no different) I am going to pick one type of attribute and train solely based on that.

Sorry for the long post, but I'd really like some feedback on peoples impressions of the Care Plan Chart and how it should affect what care plans we choose.

[eticket109]

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My wife has a black chocobo. She called it in saruta last night and rode it around a bit. Everyone ran over to her, it was pretty funny.

I've tried to get the choco whistle but can't find the item. I took him on short and medium walks but couldn't find anything. When I go on a long walk he just does the "very happy" thing.

[Macht]

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I'm beginning to have second thoughts about the way I have been raising my choco. Today will be day 28, and all of MomoDance's stats are still poor. I agree with the previous poster who said that we will probably experience better and quicker training once our chocos hit adulthood. But, I have to wonder, why even bother with care plans for the chocochicks/teenagers if they don't do squat.
For the first 15 days of its life (after hatching), my choco was on a strict regimen of Listen to Music. I was so scared of losing him to CSP, that I rarely took him on walks, and never used Take a Walk in Town as a care plan. I did not want him to get exhausted. My choco seemed to really like listening to music, and he developed an 'enigmatic personality' rather early on. (a note on that personality: the trainer says it means it is 'difficult to know what he is thinking' which is translating into me having no idea what his strengths and weaknesses are >< )
After he became a teenager, I began trying to train him to have endurance and strength. I've been poring over the care plan chart, you know, the ones with all the arrows showing stat increases/decreases. After looking at the way care plans affect status, it seems that all that Listening to Music may have created a giant sinkhole of physical stats. Am I going to have to work Momo hard just to get his physical attributes to appear?
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Does one day of Listen to Music cancel out one day of Walking in Town, leaving the choco with no stat increase overall? If so, that could explain why some people's chocos are still poor across the board. With my next choco (and I'm seriously thinking of starting over if the adult phase is no different) I am going to pick one type of attribute and train solely based on that.
Sorry for the long post, but I'd really like some feedback on peoples impressions of the Care Plan Chart and how it should affect what care plans we choose.

I think the chart is way to sketchy. Otherwise if it is completly accurate then there seems to be no reason to change off of Basic Care until the chocobo reaches Adolescent stage and even then only go for the carry packages or take out on exibitions.

It's also intresting that it seems that the adult chocobo has no care plan to raise endurance, why is that? Only thing I can suspect is that the personal care plan for the walks must raise endurance.

Anyway, I do think that the chart shown must only classify by ranged amounts. So really Minor might mean 1-5 stat improvement, were Moderate could be 6-10, and Major being 11-20 or something.

[Lasareth]

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Seems that if you want the choco to be as fast as you can get it, you're going to need to sacrifice some potential endurance. As such, you'll either have a speed-racer choco that lasts roughly 30 mins, or a reasonably speedy choco that lasts longer. Probably meant as a balance, since a choco that runs twice as fast can probably get there in half the time anyway.