Chocobo Racing/Breeding

[Slirtuius]

I was just wondering if anybody knows when SE will be adding Chocobo Racing and Breeding to FF11? I hope they add it soon cause im looking forward to it.

[MisterCookie]

I remember SE released a chart at fanfest detailing when new content was to be added. I think it said chocobo features would be implemented sometime in the fall(Around September/October I think).

Could someone please post a link to an a picture of the schedule?

[Atma]

My opinion: Job fixes first, everything else later.

I want to be something besides a crappy WHM please ; ;

[NixNot]

I don't know a link to the timeline pic, but if i remember right, the chocobo breeding will be in the next major update, and then the following update will include chocobo racing. Sadly, they aren't going to be released at the same time.

but i've been known to be wrong, and i pray i am.

[MisterCookie]

My opinion: Job fixes first, everything else later.

I read somewhere that is what SE is placing priority on for now. The June update should include adjustments for the jobs. So far, only paladin and white mage were changed.

[Blood Red Poet]

Removing of the TP floor nerfed THF and some NINs, and boosting of TP gain from a bunch of 2h weapons helped a lot.

[tetsuol]

ill be one of the 1st to find the best way to raise a choc then charge ppl to mate with my "Perfect" breed

[Rinaminori]

Timeline of Treasures of Aht Urhgan content.

It's a little small. But readable. No exact dates or anything, it is just a basic timeline from the fan festival.

[NixNot]

lol, choco breeding... June-August.

sounds like the time frame the cable company gave me for when they installed my HDTV box.

[tetsuol]

lol or like when i got my internet hooked up.. they said "12pm-4pm sometime between monday and friday"

then u had to wait all week listening for doorbell staying home just to find out they came on friday at 630 pm

[Asir]

At the fan festival, did they mention anything about the breeding of chocobos allowing them to come in different colors? I would kill for a purple chocobo. I wouldn't even care if it ended up being the slowest chocobo on the planet as long as it would be purple.

[Silverwedge]

Yes, there are multiple colors of the chocobos, they're already in the .dat files.

When we got the update, I did some data mining and found a bunch of chocobo models that were broken into seperate pieces (head, body, legs, etc) unlike the normal chocobos which are all contained in one single .dat file. For this reason, it's not viewable in the modelviewer but I put together a little image from looking at them with POLUtils. Here are the bodies:



EDIT: For you data miners, the colored chocos start at ROM4\5\18.dat

[Nukapai]

Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiit... so the chocobo breeding is not available with the expansion straight out of the box?

[bside]

although it's in Japanese, if u can understand it this image is a lot bigger and easier to read;

ToAU Timeline (JP)
(this is from the "FFXI Creator's voice Ζ," blog at S-E's official JP site.)


rough translation is as follows;

April 2006: ToAU release

June-August 2006: enchance Merits, new multi-player battle field, choco breeding, enhance Assults, more ToAU missions

September-November 2006: choco racing, enhance Assults, more ToAU missions

December 2006 and beyond: new multi-player battle field, more ToAU missions, enhance Assults, Monster Ｃoliseum


so as far as choco racing and breeding go, breeding starts first around 3Q, and 4Q for racing.


btw, i remember seeing the same pic in English somewhere else, not like the one Rinaminori posted but more like what i've posted w/ only difference being the language. i'm lazy to do a search, hopefully someone else can post a link to it?

[Nukapai]

Ok, thank you. Well, there's no rush to get the expansion then...