Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

[Neomage]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

I certainly see your point with the careplans canceling out, but the reason i even dare to try this is that one careplan won't cancel out another. In case I wasn't clear:

Digging for Treasure increaces INT, but lowers VIT. Each time I use this careplan, INT should increace and VIT should decreace, with no effect on STR and CHR.

Delivering Messages increaces STR, but lowers CHR. Each time I use this careplan, STR should increace while CHR should decreace, with no effect on INT and VIT.

If you still think it's a bad idea I guess I'll stop, I just thought this would be interesting.

[Tadacho]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

Mixing care plans will not result in any stats above poor possibly a bit deficient. tried that with my first chocobo, second one has been physical focus with str at average and end at better than average.

Some people are looking at focusing raising mental stats first then switching to physical in adulthood. Not sure how that will work but may try that on my next chocobo.

Hmm I always varied the care schedule... Maybe that's why I never got anything above Poor then.

[Lambeaus]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

I don't see how you guys have the time to raise a chocobo. I'm always busy with everything else. Yet, I still get nothing done.

I have my whistle, thats good enough for me.

EXACTLY!!!

I would do it if I could raise it from Jeuno, but having to go to Windy every day is just too time consuming.

Although since I attained my Teleport scrolls last week it wouldn't be too bad, but still. Also having BLM and WHM at 36 makes getting anywhere without my chocobo fairly easy.

[Jei]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

Are you sure the negative effects are equal to the positive effects? That's one thing I wanna find out D: The arrow pointing up and down are equal size but they might be just a representation for us to see instead of an accurate numerical effects. And there's the happiness of chocobe too, if you can keep it very happy, the positive effects may out weight the negative effects by a lot.

well, 1 way to find out I guess.... I'll make an experimental chocobo then D:
Child : 1 day walk, 1 day music
Teen-Adult: 1 day packages, 1 day exhibit.
Feed : Sandoria carrot? I heard this thing raises every stats equally. And obviously greens to keep my chocobo happy.

Now if I end up with all poor chocobo at day 60, then we know they *really* cancels out each other >.>

I can try this on my mule.

[Sabaron]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

I'll be more specific this time. These are approximations, but I have observed the "treading water at 0" effect personally.

Child : 2 days walking, 1 day music.

Predicted Result: Walking will completely cancel the music. Music will reduce the effects of the walking by 1/2 resulting in a Poor/Poor/Poor/Poor Chocobo @ Teen.
Net Care Plan result: "1 x Walking, 2 x Rest"

Teen : 2 days carrying packages, 1 day listening to music.

Carry packages will completely cancel the music. Music will reduce (slightly) the effects of the packages resulting in (at best) Substandard/Substandard/Poor/Poor at early adult.
Net Care plan result: "1.5 x Carry Packages, 1.5 x Rest"

Adult : 1 day message, 2 day package, 1 day exhibiting to public.

Exhibition will cancel 50% of the package carrying and will, itself, be completely negated.
Net careplan result: "1 x Deliver Messages, 1 x Package, 2 x Rest"

Predicted final stats: Impressive to First Class Strength at retirement, Below Average to Impressive Endurance, Poor Discernment, Poor Receptivity.

The Tier IV Careplans (Deliver/Dig/Act) are very powerful and the Tier III's are admirable as well (Carry/Exhibit). Since you've got some of that in their you might end up on the high end of the prediction, but if I were to venture a wild guess, I'd say it'd be somewhere more towards the middle/low end, but I won't be able to make a "good" prediction just yet...


What you can do is combine the following mix:

Basic Care
Deliver Messages
Digging For Treasure
Acting in a Play

A full combination will result in a very high discernment increase rate, a low increase rate on strength and receptivity (probably the same rate as say... a tier 1 careplan like Taking a Walk) and Endurance will remain at Poor. The Basic Care should only be used if the chocobo's affection degrades too much or you need to do something "special" like search for the whistle or get a story from a Long Walk (you can take 2 long walks without Gregarious/Chocolixir on Basic Care).

[Takira]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

well its only takes about 10-15 minutes to do a daily check and feed your chocobo. I usually do this before heading out and doing other stuff.

[Haggai]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

I don't see how you guys have the time to raise a chocobo. I'm always busy with everything else. Yet, I still get nothing done.

I have my whistle, thats good enough for me.

[Takira]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

Mixing care plans will not result in any stats above poor possibly a bit deficient. tried that with my first chocobo, second one has been physical focus with str at average and end at better than average.

Some people are looking at focusing raising mental stats first then switching to physical in adulthood. Not sure how that will work but may try that on my next chocobo.

[Neomage]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

Well, my line of thinking was if I could travel fast enough, endurance wouldn't matter so much. The special thing about the two careplans I am using for STR and INT is the STR one drcreaces REP(CHR), and the DIC(INT) one decreaces END(VIT) so theoreticly I should end up with lowish VIT and no CHR whatsoever, but with high STR and INT.

[Sabaron]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

I would avoid mixing mental and physical... I already went up that road and it's not pretty. Travel at your own peril.

[Jei]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

lol

I'm thinking about going more balance plan for my next chocobo too. Since I want my chocobo to concentrate on physical stats, I think I'm trying to give him the more intenst physical plan cycling with the less intense memtality plan on a daily basis. This is so the chocobo will still be ahead on its physical stat and the mental stat won't take it down too much. I don't know if the physical plan will just off set my mental plan or not tho >.> those huge arrow pointing down really are scary.

What I'm thinking is something like this

Child : 2 days walking, 1 day music.

Teen : 2 days carrying packages, 1 day listening to music.

Adult : 1 day message, 2 day package, 1 day exhibiting to public.

My goal is to get to at least out-standing strength, at least impressive endurance and hopefully average the other 2 too....

[Tadacho]

Re: Breeding a Hybrid Chocobo.

Seriously, I don't know how people do it... No matter what I did my chocobo's stats would never go higher than Poor. Eventually it ran away from home =(

[Neomage]

My newest chocobo finally reached day 29 today, and has become an adult. I am now trying an experimental phase to breed a hybrid chocobo, but not a jack-of-all-trades chocobo.

Goal: To obtain a chocobo with high Intelligence and Strength.
Staistics at day 29:
Strength: A Bit Deficent
Endurance: Average
Intelligence: Poor
Chrisma: Poor

20-Day Care Plan
Dig For Treasure[5]
Carry Packages[5]
Dig For Treasure[5]
Listen to Music[5]