User:Calvagh/Sandbox3

• Sei Dir dessen bewusst, dass Dein Chocobo, wenn es ausgewachsen ist, zunächst nicht schneller sein wird ale ein Miet-Chocobo. Geschwindigkeitssteigerung braucht viel Zeit, Fleiß und Unmengen an  %%Vomp Carrot]]s.
• Sei nicht ängstlich, zu geizig zu sein mit den Fütterungen. Dein Chocobo kümmert es nicht, ob Du es mit %%Gysahl Greens]] oder %%Azouph Greens]] fütterst. Als Erinnerung: Der zusätzliche Effekt der Nahrungsmittel ist gering - er wird etwas emerkbar, wenn das entsprechende Futter in großen Mengen gegeben wird.
• Es gibt keine Garantie für ein farbiges Chocobo.
• Du kannst Dein Chocobo nicht in Gegenden rufen, in die man auch sonst nicht mit Chocobos reiten kann. Beispiele: %%Xarcabard]], %%Beaucedine-Gletscher]], %%Caedarva-Sumpf]], %%Tu'Lia]].
• Es gibt keine Vorteile einer Überfütterung Deines Chocobos. Das beinhaltet Vorteile aus Essen, Potions und anderen Verbrauchs-Items. Sie kann sogar zu Magenverstimmungen führen und Deinen Trainingsplan für ein paar Tage außer Kraft setzen.

Männlich oder weiblich? Wenn es Dir wichtig ist, welches Geschlecht Dein Chocobo letztendlich haben wird, ist es interessant zu wissen, dass es sehr schwer zu sein scheint, ein Ei anderen Geschlechts zu erhalten, wenn das vorherige zu Deiner Unzufriedenheit ausgefallen ist.

Was wist Du tun, wenn sich herausstellt, dass Dein 19 Tage altes Chocobo keine Chance hat, ein farbiges Chocobo zu werden? Die VCS werden es bestimmt ganz toll finden, wenn Du Dein Ei, Küken oder jugendliches Chocobo aufgibst...

Methode 0: The "Watching the Egg" trick.

While the chocobo is an egg, its %%Chocobo Attributes#Energy|energy]] does not decrease when cared for. It has been proven that if you watch the egg at least 100 times before it hatches will provide you with maximum affection (regards you as a parent) when it hatches.

• There may be some other factor involved. Two chocobo eggs watched 100 and 130 times, respectively, hatched chicks at the penultimate (wants to be with you all the time) affection level.

Methode 1: The following chocobo development guide has been noted in forums.

Raise affection to maximum and then do alternate between 7 days of Physique Care Plans with Intelligence Feeds and vice versa. The food is used as a substitute for maintaining your chocobo's attributes while you work on increasing the others.

Methode 2: Basic Care

It would seem that there is at least one clear usefulness for the "balanced chocobo" path! While it appears that %%Chocobo Raising/Basic Care|Basic Care]] is probably utterly useless, having your chocobo chick grow up solely on %%Chocobo Raising/Basic Care|Basic Care]] will give it an easy-going personality for the rest of its life. This means that the chick stage is fundamental in influencing your chocobo's personality. The only potential drawback is that by having an easygoing personality, your chocobo may not receive as many days or level ups in its training towards being First Class as either a Speed Chocobo or Digger Chocobo, but only if the growth in attributes is limited to a certain number of days. That drawback might not even exist, since the trade off is that your chocobo behaves much better and has less of those cranky or stubborn days.

Remember, as Chocobo grow older, they learn much slower until they eventually cannot learn at all -seemingly around 100 days or so- with dramatic slowdown long before that. If spread too thin, the "balanced chocobo" may not learn all the desired abilities, or even get close to 1st class in just two attributes, let alone all four. Especially if this is your first generation, be weary of making a chocobo that is too average and useless. Balance is much better achieved in well managed training and breeding. Specialization in a particular attribute, though in the short-term may seem unbalanced, helps to produce much better baby chocobo's later on. It is easier to breed two chocobo with opposing attributes (a racer and a digger) to get a "balanced chocobo" then it is to attempt and do it all at once in the first generation. A chocobo raised to be "balanced" first generation and given contradictory food and training, that starts with nothing, will end up much weaker then the specialized chocobos (who others will want to breed with. Why breed with a mediocre bird when there are months at stake?) Even 2nd and #rd generation should fear attribute degradation with bad food or harsh training. Concerning personality, few understand it yet, the aforementioned "easy-going" persona is also accessible after rigorous conditioning with the help of affection food, lots of walks, and caring for the chocobo everyday. It's just as easy for someone attempting to raise a balanced and calm chocobo to raise an "enigmatic" personality perhaps, or any number of odd moods the birds take on. Basic care is better used as a tool for in between intensive training schedules, to let the chocobo cool down and regain a more cheerful personality if it does become cranky. Even though a complete Basic care plan seems balanced and appealing, in the long term, most of the time the chocobo will end up merely inadequate, and you will have to raise another specialized chocobo anyway, again, after all that work. Basic care should be used in moderation just as any strenuous care plans would be used. There is no single "balanced" chocobo path, it takes many plans in coordination with each other.

-Tägliche Fürsorge-

%%Chocobo Raising/Basic Care|Basic Care]] has not raised the chocobo's stats over 19 days (chick stage) - always stayed poor in all attributes. Food seems to have very little effect (if any) towards raising a chocobo's stats. It might only act as a catalyst in preparing your chocobo to learn more during its daily care plan.

Mixing %%Vomp Carrot]] & %%Zegham Carrot]] have negative and contradictory effects & should never be alternated on the same day. The two carrots can, however, be used effectively at different developmental stages, Zegham when training for learning abilities at an early age & Vomp much later in physical training. Even though combining the two may seem to be balanced, in the long run, your chocobo will never be able to learn as much as it could, wasting both time and gil.

%%San d'Orian Carrot]] can be replaced with any Chocobo Medicine, if necessary. Affection should never be a problem with this path. You will likely end up with a chocobo which has attributes which are Average (untested) Poor (at least after 19+ days of testing).

• It will never be same speed as rental because a chocobo with first-class strength and endurance is still slower than rental. Tested numerous times. However, chocobos with first-class strength and %%Chocobo Raising/Gallop|Gallop]] are as fast as rentals.

Raise affection to maximum and then feed a daily mix of mostly %%Vomp Carrot]]. For example: 3x %%Vomp Carrot]]; or 2x %%Vomp Carrot]] and 1x %%San d'Orian Carrot]]; or 1x %%Vomp Carrot]] and 1x %%Azouph Greens]] (two greens would leave you with a sick chocobo the next day, thereby decreasing skillups even further); etc. This food will help give little boosts to your chocobo's Strength and Endurance attributes.  %%Zegham Carrot|Zegham Carrots]] are only useful in the early stages of growth when reading stories to the chocobo, trying to teach it gallop or canter; but only for a short while at risk of stunting your speed due to the food's negative effects. Greens will help keep Affection up when you use the higher-intensity care plans. Use care plans such as %%Chocobo Raising/Take a Walk in Town|Take a Walk in Town]], %%Chocobo Raising/Carry Packages|Carry Packages]] and %%Chocobo Raising/Deliver Messages|Deliver Messages]]. Be aware of your chocobo's affection levels! You will need to find a balance between using the Affection-lowering care plans and feeding your chocobo %%Azouph Greens]] or %%Sharug Greens]].

Raise affection to maximum and then feed a daily mix of mostly %%Zegham Carrot]]. For example: 3x %%Zegham Carrot]]; or 2x %%Zegham Carrot]] and 1x %%San d'Orian Carrot]]; or 1x %%Zegham Carrot]] and 1x %%Azouph Greens]] (two greens would leave you with a sick chocobo the next day, thereby decreasing skillups even further); etc. This food will help give little boosts to your chocobo's Discernment and Receptivity attributes.  %%Vomp Carrot|Vomp Carrots]] are utterly useless for the Digger Chocobo. Greens will help keep Affection up, when you use the higher-intensity care plans. Use care plans such as %%Chocobo Raising/Listen to Music|Listen to Music]], %%Chocobo Raising/Interact with Children|Interact with Children]], %%Chocobo Raising/Interact with Other Chocobos|Interact with Other Chocobos]], %%Chocobo Raising/Exhibit to the Public|Exhibit to the Public]], %%Chocobo Raising/Dig for Treasure|Dig for Treasure]] and %%Chocobo Raising/Act in a Play|Act in a Play]]. Be aware of your chocobo's affection levels! You will need to find a balance between using the Affection-lowering care plans and feeding your chocobo %%Azouph Greens]] or %%Sharug Greens]].

I have learned through experience as a Chocobo breeder that by breeding chocobos it allows the passing of learned abilities from the chosen parent (you can chose which parent in Jeuno by purchasing the correct ticket) to the new chick, and I have good reason to believe that color is passed along with it.

After extensive testing, the only sure way to get the color of chocobo that you want is to have both parents be the same type.

• The fact is that the reason that color seems to be related to parents is because of how the traits pass from parent to chick. If both the parents are the same color, then the chick will be most likely that color because it will be given the traits of it's parents. Color is based on which trait is highest and above a certain lvl (Lvl 3 i believe or an "Average" level). So far, the colors go in this fashion: Strength = Black; Endurence = Blue; Discernment = Red; and Receptability = Green. Yellow chocobos are gotten when the stats are not above the Average level in any field. Since bred chocobos are given the basic triats that their parents had, and since color is based on these triats, it goes to figure that the chick becomes a similar color. Of course, one can raise a chocobo with one trait, and then change it part way through, but when the breeder keeps the chocobo on a balanced care schedule, no one trait exceeds the other. Most "Balanced" chocobos are yellow because the schedules would raise one stat and then decrease the same stat on the next cycle. The only true way to get a colored chocobo is to keep to the correct care schedule and feeding plans to raise certain stats. Blacks and Blues come from "Taking Walks" and Vomp carrot chocobo schedules. Reds and Greens come from "Listening to Music" and Zegham carrot chocobo schedules. To be sure as to which color you will get, set up the care schedule to maximize that color's stat, and don't vary from that stat. This is where the decision comes into play: either you can have a strong, fast and long-winded chocobo, or you can have a smart, slightly weaker, but can learn abilities easier chocobo. Blacks and Blues both need the physical set-ups and Reds and Greens need the Mental set-ups. For a more detailed idea on how to set-up your chocobo to maximize it's stats, refer to %%Chocobo_Raising#Care_Plans]]. This will be the easiest way to see how each action will affect your chocobo. Other than that, have fun! make your chocobo your own and in whatever way you want it to become.

From personal experience, one unit of recommended medicinal grass/paste is usually sufficient, and two is the most I've ever needed to give at one time.

I have discovered that if I feed the chocobo the medicinal grass/paste until the VHS trainer says something to the effect of "I hope it gets well soon", then it will get well by the next update. If I only feed it one piece and the trainer does not comment, it always needs more medicinal feed the next update and has often become even more sick.

"Teach an Old Chocobo New Tricks!"

Each chocobo can learn 2 out of the 6 abilities (or attributes as they are called in the game). They can be obtained by %%Chocobo Raising/Tell a Story|telling a chocobo a story]] or by picking the appropriate %%VCS Honeymoon Ticket]] plan from %%Finbarr]], which causes the resulting egg to inherit the abilities of a specific parent. The abilities are:

• %%Chocobo Raising/Gallop|Gallop]] (%%Story of an Impatient Chocobo]]) - Increases chocobo's running speed. Obtained from walks with %%Hantileon]].
• %%Chocobo Raising/Canter|Canter]] (%%Story of a Curious Chocobo]]) - Increases a chocobo's endurance. Obtained from walks with %%Brutus]].
• %%Chocobo Raising/Burrow|Burrow]] (%%Story of a Worrisome Chocobo]]) - Adds a few different items to %%Chocobo Digging]]. Obtained from walks with %%Zopago]].
• %%Chocobo Raising/Bore|Bore]] (%%Story of a Youthful Chocobo]]) - Allows your chocobo to find less common items while %%Chocobo Digging]]. Obtained from walks with %%Pulonono]].
• %%Chocobo Raising/Auto Regen|Auto Regen]] (%%Story of a Happy Chocobo ]]) - Increases the rate at which your chocobo restores energy. Obtained from competion races with Bashraf.
• %%Chocobo Raising/Treasure Finder|Treasure Finder]] (%%Story of a Diligent Chocobo]]) - This ability will increase a chocobo's ability to locate treasure when playing %%The Chocobo Hot and Cold Game]] (Dec 19th FFXI Update). Obtained from the quest, %%Lost Chick]].

Note: It is possible to obtain all stories regardless of where the Chocobo is raised. Only difference from raising in a different city is the order the stories can be obtained.

When an ability is learned, the corresponding story's key item disappears, a light-bulb animation goes off above your chocobo's head, and the chocobo's energy bar is restored by 20-100% (the amount restored seems to vary from person to person, but they have always restored 100% for me). After 2 stories have been learned, your chocobo can still "learn" more stories, which will then disappear, but it will not actually learn the corresponding abilities, as the limit of 2 has already been reached, however, energy will still be restored. It is possible to learn all stories on the same day, thus it is also able to take many long walks on that day (learn a story, take a long walk once or twice, learn another story, take more long walks, and so on). This is best done once you have obtained all the stories, have discernment at least to impressive, and have the unusually bright condition. If you want to try this, make sure to have a %%Chocolixir]] ready in case you end up a little low on energy at some point.

These are the things that will be required over the month of your chocobo raising. All of the items can be purchased from the %%Auction House]] in your city.

• 29 days in which to check on your chocobo.
• Between 8-12 stacks of %%Feed|Chocobo Feed]]
• If your chocobo gets sick, two of the %%Feed#Health|Medicinal Feed]] is recommended
• Possibly a %%Chocolixir]] or two for when your chocobo becomes an adult.
• A lot of patience

These are the stages that your chocobo will go through to reach maturity. As appears so far, most cutscenes and personality differences are random in occurrence. Do not be upset if your chocobo does not develop a personality until late in its development.

Each chocobo has 6 main attributes:

• Strength - is a term used to describe the chocobo's leg power. The more strength a chocobo has, the faster it will be able to run. Rental chocobos have been raised with an emphasis on this attribute.
• Endurance - is a term used to describe the chocobo's stamina. If your chocobo has high endurance, you will be able to ride it for a long period of time.

Both strength and endurance are collectively referred to as "Physical attributes".

• Discernment - is a must for anyone who wants their chocobo to learn new abilities. This only increases the likelihood of learning an ability, it is still possible to learn an ability with low Discernment, however the chances are slimmer. It is possible to raise this to average quickly to learn two abilities, and switch the care plan to have a first class speedy chocobo. You may want to consider raising this attribute if you are interested in digging for treasure.
• Receptivity - is a term used to describe the chocobo's sensitivity when dealing with others. You can foster receptivity in your chocobo by giving it lots of opportunities to communicate with other chocobos.

Both discernment and receptivity are collectively referred to as "Mental attributes".

• Energy - is a term used to describe the amount of power the chocobo needs to stay active for the day. If your chocobo has a lot of energy, care plans are more likely to be successful and you can provide more direct care for your chocobo. You can restore your chocobo's energy by feeding it, so remember not to skip out on feeding time after a demanding schedule!
• Affection - is the most important attribute of all. Your care schedule will fall flat if you don't show your chocobo proper affection! You can raise your chocobo's affection by feeding it greens and caring for it on a regular basis. Affection is split into several levels:
  • level 1 - not care about you at all
  • level 2 - be able to endure your company
  • level 3 - slightly enjoy your company
  • level 4 - like being around you
  • level 5 - like you pretty well
  • level 6 - like you a lot
  • level 7 - want to be with you all the time
  • level 8 - regard you as its parent

• Each attribute has several levels:
  • level 1 - Poor
  • level 2 - Substandard
  • level 3 - A bit deficient
  • level 4 - Average
  • level 5 - Better than average
  • level 6 - Impressive
  • level 7 - Outstanding
  • level 8 - First-class