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Chocobos

In the stables, Choco Billy handles all the needs for your chocobos. Of course, outside of the daily menial work, Choco Billy needs to be told what you want to do with your chocobos. So here are all of the things you can do with your chocobos.

Feeding and Breeding

Once you get a new chocobo, wether we captured one or it just been born, it will be hungry. Feeding a chocobo increases its attritubes gradually. The hungrier it is, the more feed it will take at a single time. We handle the daily feeding, even if you are far away, but you should come back to feed it yourself once in a while too!

Feeding a chocobo increases its 4 main attributes, which are Run, Dash, Stamina and Endurance. Each green has different attributes that it can boost, and in different proportions as well. What? Which greens are better? Well all of them are pretty much equal, but concentrate on different attributes. You will just need to figure out which ones help what attribute on your own!

Breeding allows you to get a new chocobo, as a baby, and grow it up yourself. They are born unnamed, so you can give them the name you wish after moving them to the stables. If your stables are full, you can replace one of your previous chocobos with it, and the newborn will take the name of which is being replaced. The old chocobo are returned to the wilds, where it will make new friends, no need to worry about them!

Like feeding, you need to give them a nut to start the process. We will then find a suitable mate for your chocobo, and then magic happens! So so daddy says. A new chocobo is born to the world. Its also hungry, you might want to feed it! Note that you need a certain amount of time to be able to breed a newly caught chocobo, or a newly born one.

Breeding a chocobo takes the parent's attributes, and increase their maximum values. Unfortunately, the chocobo is still untrained, so the racing attributes will be lower than the parents. But since their potential is higher, you will gradually raise stronger chocobos!

Chocobos are natural racers, they love to run all over the fields when they can. They race each other for fun as well, so it was only natural that people starting to race their own chocobos against other people as well!

So chocobos and chocobo racing go together well!

Not like this thought.

Racing Circuit

Found in Serendipity, the Chocobo Racing Circuit is open to all people to race against other racing enthusiasts. Esther is the one to look up for when you want to register up for the races.

Races in the circuit are done between 6 racing birds, one of them being you. The other 5 racers are people that love to race and measure their chocobos against each other. There are bets going on in the back of course, which is why the races are divided into Classes. The higher the class, the faster the chocobos involved are. You can see the Class of your chocobo on your ChocoCard.

Your Class is automatically upgraded when your chocobo's feeding make its attribute high enough to cross in the next category of racers. Chole is the one that evaluates the potential, so that an even challenge is kept no matter how good your chocobo becomes. The Classes are in order : F - E - D - C - B - A - S - SS - SSS

The races are done in 3 laps of 3 legs each. Each leg after the first one, you are able to order your chocobo's speed, in %. See the Racing Information for more details.

These commands only work in the Circuit of course.

Drag Racing

Drag Racing is the alternate way of racing, outside of the Chocobo Circuit. You can race just about anywhere in the world, but only against other people that join up the challenge, as its not organized like at the circuit.

Although the racing mechanics are the same, it's not strictly limited to 6 people, it needs at least 2 racers to start. There is also no laps, only legs, which can be chosen at the start of the race. The default amount of legs is 9, the same amount as a Circuit race.

No matter if you are Drag Racing or in the Circuit, the same mechanics apply to your chocobo's behavior and attributes.

The speed you direct your chocobo each Leg determines how much Stamina will be used up or recovered. 100% Speed means that you go to the maximum speed without using any Stamina. Anything lower than 100% Speed will make your chocob recover stamina, up to a maximum of 100% Stamina of course.

Anything higher than 100% Speed will make your chocobo lose Stamina. If your chocobo falls to 0% Stamina between legs, it will see its Speed reduced to 50% until the end of the Leg. It will also recover Stamina during that time of course, but you will probably be left behind as well.

The best tip about racing is to control your stamina usage as much as possible, getting as close to 0% Stamina without going under, and going as fast as possible without going over 100% Stamina when recovering.

Racing Attributes

There are 4 main attributes that affects the race :

Chocobo Hunger

Chocobos get hungry as they race, which allows you to feed them more greens to increase their attributes. Chocobos get hungry by racing, it doesn't matter if they win or not, but winning seems to make them crave faster. You should always try your best to win!

Chocobo Colors

Yes, it is possible to get chocobos of different colors! But how to make them appear, that we're not sure.

There is one nut that doesn't seem to increase attributes at all when used, so we think it might be tied to usage of that nut. But also, it doesn't seem like they appear unless the chocobo havs reached a certain threshold in their maximum attributes.

So it only appears on babies that you bred yourself, it might take some time!

Other information

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