Talk:Chocobuck

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Chocobo dyes

I dyed my yellow chocobo blue, and it has remained that color for months and a whistle recharge. The effect is only lost if you switch chocobos for riding, as far as I can tell. Tahngarthor 19:28, 18 July 2007 (CDT)

Does the day you start attribute upgrades matter? I am on day 50 and I heard that the stat upgrades only work after day 63? Thanopstru 10:13, 1 September 2007 (EST)

Cost of dye

Does the feather dye cost 50 or 75 chocobucks? The article claims both. --Karl1982 18:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

50 to dye your chocobo, 75 to get a bottle of dye as an item. --1.quos.vita.habitum.captivus 13:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Raising Retired Chocobo Attributes

I was thinking of retiring my chocobo to freeze the two stats I have at Impressive (so I can not have to show up daily to avoid sickness or attribute degradation).

My question is this, with the 75 chocobucks, will that work on a retired chocobo as well? The 80 chocobuck one says it only works on birds still in the stables, hence my question.

--Jarkenz 15:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I've done 2 DSC upgrades on my retired chocobo, and its still at Poor. No way is it gonna be FC in 7 upgrades. Either items work differently than training, or the rules for retired chocobos are different. Feels like such a damn waste, especially at that price. I'm gonna stab someone if I have to raise another chocobo just to get that damn torque... --Thala 09:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm having the same problem. I used 4 upgrades and the stat is still poor. I'm thinking maybe it means 7 upgrades to increase one level. My chocobo is not retired yet. . . --Harnao 1/1/2009

Ok, so now that that's been clarified, 7 upgrades per stat level would suggest that each upgrade is 5 points (based on the Chocobo Racing page). FC happens at 224 points, so to go from 0 to 225 would take 45 upgrades, so 3600 chocobucks in stables, 4500 retired, and even more if you wanted to cap it at 255. Damn, gonna be at this for a long while -.- --Thala 00:14, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

If you're chocobo isn't 8/8/4/0 or so by auto-retirement, I'd recommend starting over from scratch if you're going for a perfect bird. Mine retires in 10 days and I'm nearly 8/7/4/3/G/C but I've spent like 500k on Choco racing to finish these stats. frameRATE

18:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)