The big Chocobo researchFollow

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Edited, Oct 3rd 2006 at 9:55am PDT by pdragonfly

I loves mah speculatin'.

Agreeing on the food part. However I do note that on any 'perky' days the food seems to have a good enough effect to make it worth it. I don't have any strong evidence of this, but stats have always changed on perky days when the chocobo was fed, and not before then. Almost as if the ones I raise need to be perky before feeding will really 'do anything'.

As for calling Chocobos in Qufim or Glacier... I don't think we'll get the snow areas... maybe the others though. Somewhere I think it was implied that we would ride them in the same places we always ride them, unfortunately. Its a little disappointing, but still useful depending on how much of a hurry/danger you are in. For lower levels, finishing your last trip through Dunes(if you're the type that still stays there until 20) or your Jungles party and just calling your Chocobo to get back would be good.

What I really wonder is the price of the Whistle. Somehow I don't think it is going to be so expensive that we will mind it too much. It has 25 charges if I remember correctly. If it costs 5000 gil that's 200 gil a ride. I'd use it before Crag chocobo on most weekends, especially if I wasn't directly near the Crag when I wanted to go somewhere. Sometimes the price of Chocobos at a crag gets high enough that a Whistle would have to cost over 15k before regular renting is better. After the cost of raising them I doubt it will be that much.

No more riding past occasional NM in the middle of nowhere... no more leaving dead people on the road (just charge them for 1/25 of your whistle cost if you want, that's fair enough) and BEST of all, no more walking out of Ordelle's Caves/Davoi/Oztroja/etc and having to walk back. For most things, a whistle would have to be more expensive than a Warp Cudgel for me to not use it constantly, and I bet that, just like an Empress or Chariot band, it can be recharged whenever convenient instead of just when it runs out.

Actually once I get this I am probably going to care a lot less about where my Home Point is...

Edited, Sep 18th 2006 at 8:45am EDT by Risae

It affects your gil reward, and presumably, your stat increase. I know that mine usually does well and gets 200gil. Once, however, it was in a hurry and dropped some packages, thus rewarding me 100gil. Mine has opposite physicals stats than yours, which probably makes the difference; a bit deficient endurance and substandard strength.

I have always asumed that food was not really important as well. However, I no longer think this. I was able to change my stats twice using food. Now I still think Care Plans are more important, but I think it is way to soon to dismiss the effect of the correct/wrong foods. What happened with my chocobo:

Care Plans since it was possible: Listen to Music
Day 9 - 17 enigmatic personality
Main feed: carrot paste, occasionally vege paste & Zegham carrots

Day 16: Receptivity went to Substandard, fed paste + Zegham carrot.

Day 17: Recetivity still Substandard, choco is starving feed 1 carrot paste. After feeding I checked my stats and Receptivity was back to poor, as was everything else. Choco still enigmatic. My chocobo was not perky and receptive to anything I gave it today.

Day 18: (Notice I had listened to music completed this day and my chocobo still did not regain the stat from that evil carrot paste) 9 straigt days of enigmatic personality stoped today as well. Gained sensitive personality and Discernment went to Substandard. Decided that carrot paste was no longer a viable feed option so I fed 2 Zegham carrots, checking stats after each one. After the first Carrot another stat change; Receptivity went back up to Substandard and Discernment stayed as Substandard, still sensitive personality.

It seems to be a direct cause and effect situation with that carrot paste I had fed my chocobo, right after feeding it I lost my stat. I did not gain this stat back after Listening to Music, and it allowed me to raise the other mental stat. I'm pretty sure I would have gained this stat regardless of what I fed chocobo because the two mental stats seem to raise very close to each other. But after leaving my chocobo with no stats it was able to gain a new personsality once the other mental stat was raised.

Personalities & Attributes:
Ill tempered --> most likely stat to raise firt: strength
Patient --> most likely stat to raise first: Endurance
Enigmatic --> most likely stat to raise first: Receptivity
Sensitive --> most likely stat to raise first: Discernment

The new day is the exact same time that you originally gave the caretaker the egg.

From the main web site on chocobo raising,

"Vomp Carrots boost physical stats"
"Zegham Carrots boost mental stats"

Carrot paste is made from vomp carrots.

That's why your chocobos mental stats went back down when you feed it carrot paste and up when you fed it zegham carrots.

When your chocobo right at the border of going up or down, a carrot or two can push him either way, so be very cafeful what you feed him when it's right at the edge.

Morquendii, I understand why my stat went down - now, but that wasn't the point of my post. That little experience (at least to me) showed several things:

-Food does make a difference, one listening to music was not enough to erase my food choice, at least not completely.
-Food does not just give + stats, it also gives - stats
-Shows the possibility for chics to change personality and stats (using proper foods .. obviously you would chose walking for physical and music for mental, but each those has 2 sub options, food can help to get the one you want the most perhaps?). (Notice: this is specifically changing personality before the more specialized care options are available)
-When it was fed the paste, my chocobo was in normal spirits, not perky. Many people pay special attention to perky days and feed it the 'best' food. Perhaps perky days does affect the chocobo more, but on normal days there is still a chance for a noticeable change.

Deficient means that it doesn't have what it should.
-adjective
1. lacking some element or characteristic; defective: deficient in taste.
2. insufficient; inadequate: deficient knowledge.

I'm deficient in gil. >L>

hey, i've been wondering, my stats havent changed, but i know why, its because i didnt realize the whole cancleing out facter with the care schedual till around day 18 so yea didnt start concentrateing on one stat till then, so i'm not to curiouse about that,but my choco still doesnt have a personality, its on day 25, i fed it vege past till it hit teen years, and now i feed it about three sandy carrots a day, my care schedual, consists of takeing walks around town, carrying packages, and exersizeing alone, any ideas why it hast gotten one yet?

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Edited, Oct 3rd 2006 at 9:56am PDT by pdragonfly

i personaly dont think that color has anything to do with food, now yes it may but i mean i feed my chco the same as a lot of otheres, and i got a purple tiped choco when they got a white tiped choco, so really i dont know, it might raise the chances, but even by feeding it certain foods i dont think it will give you a colored choco, like i said in my last post all i fed mine was vege past till it was a teen, and then i fed it sandy carrots, i think people are just spending a lot of gil over nothing.

Edited, Sep 18th 2006 at 10:33pm EDT by ChocoMan

Well, I had what I would call a big crop of both Vomp and Zegham carrots yesterday and can't wait to get home and harvest my cupid worm crop. It seems that they take a day longer than the carrots.

Anyway, to all of you out there who want to try your hand a growing these instead of paying 10-8k per carrot, here you go and good luck.

Vomp-brass pot, wildgrass seed, planted on darksday, fed earth crystal on lightsday, and harvested on lightsday. I got 42 carrots out of 10 pots. Along with some crystals and a yellow stone!

Zegham-brass pot, wildgrass seeds, planted on darksday, fed ice crystal on lightsday, and harvested on lightsday. I got 34 carrots some crystals and little worms.

I'll let you know how my cupid worms turn out, I planted and fed them on the same days as the carrots, not sure if I will beable to harvest on lightsday or not.

I put them up on the AH last night at a reduced price to try and help out someother players. When I got up this morning, they had sold! but at the sme price as the history :(

I know that there are some gardeners who might get mad at this post, but you guys have had almost a full month to make your gil, its time to let the community in on the secret.

Moritaru, that makes perfect sense to me, you may be onto something there!