Breeding a Speedy Chocobo

[WishMaster3K]

Re: Breeding a Speedy Chocobo

Don't the daily caring options raise affection? Isn't that a way to offset the rigorous training?

[Taskmage]

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The daily care does increase your affection, but depending on the specifics of your chocobo, personal care and feeding may not be enough to maintain a steady level of affection when using more stressful care plans.

My mule's physical-oriented chocobo always loses a full level of affection from carrying packages, and since I didn't have her develop a taste for affection-raising foods when she had perky days when she was younger (strict carrot diet), I have a hard time getting her affection back up to parent level in one day.

My main's mental-oriented chocobo on the other hand can do the digging for treasure care plan, which is supposed to drain more affection than packages, without dropping from max affection. He's even started having perky days again, which I haven't seen on him for like 30 days. I'm not sure why his affection seems more durable. It may be age. The mental chocobo has lower stats but is 20 days older.

[Nakti]

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Azouph Greens and Long Walks give my chocobo the highest boosts for Affection.

Watch overs are good, too. The Affection boost (for adult chocobos) is minimal (1 point I suspect), but the energy used is also minimal.

Has anyone noticed their Affection drop more due to failed Care Plans versus successful Care Plans?

[Takira]

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I am working on a second generation chick, CrystalMirage, I have had parent status with her since hatching, she is on day 19 (should become adolescent today) and has substandard str and end.

I have been focusing on the str and end but I do throw in listening to music so she is not completely dumb. Haven't had any issues with affection status dropping even when she was sick.

Will keep an eye out once she hits her "teenage time" because my first bird was caught up in the sleeping glitch and slept most of his adolescence away (8 days of sleeping) so it lost affection because I was unable to do anything for it.

[Chveya]

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RisingFog reached 'a bit deficient' strength on Day 16, and is still at 'substandard' endurance. ^^

Yesterday was Day 19, and I was so excited to see whether he had colored feathers. He didn't. ;.; Another yellow choco for me. At least he's on his way to having acceptable stats this time.

Here's my plan for his training during adolescence:
Exercise in Group: 3 days
Walk in Town: 4 days
Deliver Messages: 1 day
Exercise Alone: 3 days

I will be feeding him Vomp Carrots, and supplementing with greens. I have yet to try feeding him all the greens types, so I will be experimenting to find out which ones give the most satisfaction. Then I will use those to help bring up affection levels if they drop.

[WishMaster3K]

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Day 19

She matured! Yay! Wait for it.... aww, she's plain ol yellow. *sigh* Oh well, at least she loves me. *sigh*

Alright, time to get to work. Took her on a regular walk and got a cutscene with Bashraf. That asshole is gonna have a black chocobo. fucking bastard....

Oh well. Two Regular walks. Can anyone verify something, actually? How pronounced are the tips of the chocobo's feathers? It was fairly obvious that the chocobo of Bashraf and his crew was going to be a black chocobo. Mine has slightly whitish/light tips. Is that normal?

[Nakti]

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Sorry, Wishmaster, whitish tips is an indication of a yellow chocobo.

I don't know if the tips are an absolute indication or if there's a chance it can be another color when maturing. I haven't seen enough data on that.

(btw, Just in case you don't know, all adolescents have yellow bodies. Only the tips are different colors.)

[WishMaster3K]

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*cries* Oh well. She's first generation. I was too poor to afford anything beyond carrots anyway, so I guess it's fine.

I have her on a 4 day regiment to deliver packages, then i'll figure out where to go from there. If I see a noticable drop in her affection, I'll do something else. But, the way I spoil her, I can't imagine even the most rigorous of training affecting her. adversely.

[Taskmage]

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To be honest, I wonder if the way you raise them has an effect on what color they will be at all. At any rate, according to that poll that was done a while back, the NPC-buyable eggs have a very low chance to turn out any color than yellow. The "little warm" and "somewhat warm" eggs have a significantly higher chance. Both of those eggs are ISNM drops, but "little warm" is also the type of egg you get from breeding. So, raise her up well, find her a good mate, preferably one in the color you'd want, and you'll have a much better shot with her chick.

[Sabaron]

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My personal opinion on color is that it you should think of it in a similar way that you think of your own character's race. It doesn't really matter what color your chocobo is because the care plans are going to overshadow the color anyway (keep in mind that I don't know this for sure).

The nice thing about the color is that you can't tell what breed of chocobo a yellow chocobo is...the SE Stuff mentions that most chocobos of any breed are, in fact, yellow, but each breed (except for the Jeunoan Roundsey) has a rare colored "mutation" kind of like Albino Lab mice I guess. The idea is that this color concretely displays the chocobo's breed so that once we've got the numbers down on what each breed is good at, we can use the color as an indicator of which care plans will achieve results the fastest. The faster you can max your chocobos stats and get them their abilities, the faster you can start collecting "stud" fees (or surrogate fees if you've got a girl).

[Takira]

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If we all remember basic genetics from biology in high school, you can have two parents with brown hair and brown eyes and they could actually have a baby with blond hair and blue eyes. Think dominant and recessive genes here.

Same application with chocobos, the dominant color is yellow, the others are recessive.

May take a few generations but you could feasibly have a colored baby from two yellow parents.

[Macht]

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If we all remember basic genetics from biology in high school, you can have two parents with brown hair and brown eyes and they could actually have a baby with blond hair and blue eyes. Think dominant and recessive genes here.
Same application with chocobos, the dominant color is yellow, the others are recessive.
May take a few generations but you could feasibly have a colored baby from two yellow parents.

Lol, Like I've said in a thread before. Mother Burnette, Father Dark Brown and I am blonde. My sis is blonde, however my brother is dark brown.

[WishMaster3K]

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So she was restless today. She raced against the other Teen Chocobo and she won. Took her on a regular walk, then I told her a story, then I watched her like 3 times.

I fed her a Vomp Carrot, but she didn't like it (for some reason), so I'm going to feed her Az greens, as not to waste money.

Just like a Teenager, it seems that things will get very unpredictable. How long do we feasably "Raise" chocobos? I know that after 30 days we can ride them, but how long a period do we get to raise their stats?

[Taskmage]

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I think my chocobo is on day 78. I haven't seen his stats rise since he got his "distinguished air," but I haven't been keeping him as well supplied with zeghams either. It's still letting me care for him and send him digging though.

[Jei]

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While the chocobo isn't normal (bore, sick, injure etc) it will give negative messeges no matter what you feed. I believe you still gain the benefit from the food tho.