Personal Chocobos (finally!)

[Miriel]

From POL:

The FINAL FANTASY XI development team has finally addressed everyone’s cries for a system to raise their own personal chocobos. As announced at the FINAL FANTASY XI Fan Festival 2006 in Santa Monica, this new feature will be introduced in the next version update!

Raising Your Chocobo
[Basic Concept]
Think of chocobo raising as an upgraded version of gardening. You can raise a chocobo by taking care of it for a minimal amount of time each day over a span of roughly 1-3 months, so even players with little time can enjoy this feature. Your chocobo may come in handy when it is fully grown!

[Chocobo Eggs]
Your first step is to get hold of a chocobo egg. Each egg is encoded with its own specific genetic information, and some players may come across an extremely rare variety…

[Caring For Your Chocobo]
You must work together with the chocobo stable employees in order to properly care for your chocobo. Feeding your chocobo and spending a bit of time with it each day will gradually build trust. You will be amazed at how your chocobo grows!

Chocobo Variety
Chocobos differ based on their color and type…and possibly more. Naming will be handled in the same way that dragoons and puppetmasters select their wyvern or automaton’s name, but there will be more options than ever before!

Matchmaking
Match up your chocobo with your friend’s chocobo and see what happens. If the match is right, you could end up with a new baby chocobo!

Scores of other exciting features are scheduled to be added in the next version update, so keep checking the main site for more information in the next few days!

Yay! I'm so excited. I'm reeeaally interested in the fact that not everyone will have the same chocobo type. And the whole breeding thing sounds like it's gonna be great.

[escobert]

yay!

[Crossblades]

Awesome

Can't wait to get a chocobo license

[Mirage]

This is awesome. I've been waiting for this since the day I started playing.

[Ouch!]

Hallelujah and all that jazz. I'm pumped. =3

[Markus. D]

oooh kawaii Boco Baby ^_^

[Laguna]

Sounds great! Still, there seems to be a lot left unsaid. Damn you Development team- give me all the details! XD

[Rostum]

I want chubby chocobo! Or a white one, to match my Paladin. <3

[Vaprice]

I want an asian chocobo!
Or a chocobo that does Bruce Lee sound effects.

[No.78]

I heard that this has a downside, you have to tend to the chocobo EVERY DAY or something... But besides that, I'm (|Excitement!|)

[Yeargdribble]

I do admit that I'm a little afraid this will have some of the downsides of gardening. Remember when everything was really bad last October and there were constant maintenances DDoS attacks? Well shortly before that I'd been growing some cutting and saplings. Well it was all a waste because not only did I have trouble checking my plants but the worst of the maintenance hit when they were about ready to harvest. I lost the entire crop as a result of work schedule mixed with bad timing of maintenance.


How do you think they could resolve this for something that takes even longer than gardening? Their own sporadic maintenances will screw up raising a really good chocobo potentially.

[square_is_the_best]

I don't think that it will be a problem. I read somewhere that chocobo rasing has been designed with unaddicted players who play less often in mind. But i guess we still need to cross our fingers.

[No.78]

Okay the version update has happened!! They said "next version update" so... This must be it right? One question! HOW DO I GET THE EGG!?!?!?!?!?!?

[zellv2]

sounds pretty cool i will try it sometime

[TidusMaster]

BLOOOOGGGAAASSNNNAAAPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!