The big Chocobo researchFollow

one note on the charts that have +1 and +1 info. Basic care barely raises those +1 stats you have there. Its more or less the choice that keeps stats from decreasing more so than raising them. I highly doubt basic care is as good as a walk around town for the physical stats. I think its more apropriatly +.5 or some other fraction of that number.

um...No.

It's called color accuracy. Certain monitors display colors similary, but not exactly the same. Same thing can be said for color printers. It has nothing to do with color, just your type of monitor and its quality of colors. This is also sometime digital artists worry about (Feielle would know what I'm talkin about).

Does anyone know If I could buy Gregarious Worm from an NPC?

The care plan chart on the begining is wrong I believe. I was studying the chart some more, and what the npc says, and for certain things, it seems most definatly wrong. For one, on something like Playing with children, the npc says it raises the birds intellegence, while slighty lowering the birds physical condition. To me, that sounds like a -1 to str and end, while a +2 or+3 to rec and dis. Anyone else think this?

Im excited too about stat upgrades, but i thought id share that while reading these posts i laugh to myself everytime i see someone get all excited because his chocobo's strength is substandard!! lol Thats like... Yus!!! im a below average football player!!

Ok so this is a lot of speculation and guess work but;

Perhaps the color of the bird is affected by 2 factors;

1. A sort of “genetic” code of the bird.
2. The care the bird gets.

In the case of #1 I’d expect to see the following;

Color of bird; 1st generation birds might not be able to be different colors… I know this comes as a shock but listen to the reason;

Yellow feathers with black tips, Yellow feathers with white tips, Yellow feathers ect.

SE might have coded the birds with something like a genetic code… much like animals that will display some traits or colors but not have one be dominate, it might be necessary to breed the birds with similar color tendencies to get a “pure” version of that color.

IE punit squares
Take as the color of black as a semi dominate is b with a yellow color as a Dominate trait of Y.

There are 2 things about semi-dominate (a trait that is neither recessive or dominate) traits to keep in mind;

1. Sometimes these traits are apparent

2. Sometimes these traits are mostly hidden.

A bY chochobo with proper nutrition and care should look like a yellow bird with black tips, at least using the assumption 1 abouve.

So in theory you have to cross it with another bY chochobo to have a chance of getting a black bird, the possible out come are as follows;

Generation X1; 1 out of 4 Yellow no tips. 2 out of 4 yellow w/black tips. 1 out of 4 will be black. Thus each breeding or matchmaking would have ¼ shot of making a black bird…

This assumes a partial dominance situation where as both traits are expressed but one is slightly repressed (as red hair does in humans sometimes).

The next natural question would be ok so what about crossing a green and black bird?

The answer is; it would depend on what color has more dominance… and the punit squares get a little bit convoluted in this case.

In the case of #2 you would expect the care of birds to influence the color.

I find it most likely it is a combination of both 1+2 but until we have a confirmed “pure breed” of one for colors the actual cause can be debated.

So let’s plug away at this;

What color/tips does your bird have (in CS and what does the trainer tell you)?

Has your bird shown a pure color?

What personality does it have?

What type of care are you giving? (i.e. I mix it up, my bird only takes walks, listens to music ect.)

Have you bred your bird? (obviously no ones is of age yet…) and what was the offspring like?

I want to call this The Chochobo GENOME project lol.

I have managed to unlock some of the mistery surrounding SanD carrots. I have been raising either physical or mentals stats evenly since my choco hatched and Only recently began feeding it nothing but greens and SanD carrots and a couple days ago both its strength and endurance raised from poor to substandard, but yesterday I had it exibit itself and its strength dropped to poor but endurace didn't change. So I can now conclude that SanD carrots do affect endurance but do not affect strength. I have no idea what affect they may have on the mental traits yet, if any.

Edited, Sep 17th 2006 at 5:31am EDT by Sakbauer

Actually I'm a little concerned as to how much of a difference is there between our raised chocobos and the ones we rent. I mean just how Slow/Fast will our chocobos be? If you read the description of the chocos from jueno it says that they are breed and raised with speed and endurance as the main stat. So these chocobos should in theory have atleast "imppressive" or outstanding" rateing in these stats if not "First-class". Of course it also makes you wonder if you can breed a choco that can outrun and outlast the rental chocobo. Frankly I hope you can >_>

the numbers dont represent actualy numbers. read the legend, they represent basic generalizations, 1 = small amount, 2 = medium, 3 = large. and its copied from the chart on SE's site.



i personally doubt there will be any coloured chocos in this first generation. and because a young animal has different colours then when its an adult means nothing. looking at animals in real life, some young birds will have brown feathers to help them blend in with their environment, yet when they grow older they can have brilliant reds or blues or other various colours. thinking about it, no one has said that they have one of the 4th kind of adolescent on Feielle's picture, the one thats brown with yellow tips. that may be what your adolescent will look like if its actually a coloured one. all the mainly yellow ones with coloured tips are going to be yellow, just the colour represents race of chocobo, and which kinds to mate with for a chance at a coloured choco.

and using walk in town for 2 days, then listen to music for 2 days does not neccesarily cancle each other out. we dont know exact numerical values for how much they increase and decrease. most likely doing two days of walking and two days of listening would have the same overall effect as basic care for 4 days.

You're right about Endurance, which is why I'm happy to have a "very patient" chocobo, the type thats Endurance seems to rise easily. Mine's just rose to "A bit deficient," VERY happy about that! I bet her strength will rise soon too. ^^

However, if stats stop rising at adulthood, even my little Endurance prodigy likely won't get above average. We'll have to look to the next generation of chocobos to excel statwise.

You're right. I hadn't thought of that...That's definitely a good thing.

Day 27

Carry packages: 200 gil
Fed 3 Vomp carrots
Compete against others: LOST - first time!!
Regular walk: dry weather
Stats: he is now down to just liking me a lot!Watched over him: 2x
Told him story: happy chocobo


P.S. I WANT A WHITE CHOCOCO!!!