Share your Chao raising/race/garden/etc ideas!

[Metalsonic3]

Decided to go ahead and do a lil topic like this for I got curious if peoplez would have different ideas related to Chao.

Anything Chao related is welcome! Garden, race, black market, kindergarden, chao behaviour, growing, etc. What have you always wanted to see in Chao worlds in Sonic games?

Just as an example, lemme start :P
It would be awesome if you could control your chao in Chao Karate! :O Not fully like in Tekken or anything, but so that you could select if you would like to "block" or "attack" by punch or kick or something like that :P
Also would be nice if you could have a custom Chao garden which you could edit to your own needs :3 Basically a way to make your own Chao garden.

Continuing :P
I wouldn't mind there being a way to BUY chaos drives. Sure it would most probably be like.. 50 or 100 rings each, but if someone would for some reason just wana buy them instead of getting em from the stages, could be good :P although pointless in some way haha XD

[Enzo03]

No. Doing that would keep people from playing the actual game itself.
That's the whole point of putting the chaos drives and animals in the levels, not buyable from a store - it prevents the game from being split into two separate ones.

[Metalsonic3]

Haha yeah XD but it could be great for Sonic Advance for example where you don't actually collect animals nor chaos drives :P and with chaos drives actually costing some money, it would still make people play the game itself to get rings :3 and yeah sure Sonic Advance has fruits, but they don't work fully like chaos drives.

Anyway, another idea time :P
Would be awesome if chao's would have more activities with each other and that they could become "friends" together. I'm not sure if this is already in the games or not, but i've never really seen it happen :C

[Mari]

I wish they would make it so that...

Spoiler:

Another game with chao garden exist. XD

[Metalsonic3]

harrr hell yush! XD
I really hope chao's will appear in Sonic Generations atleast in some way :3
I played those "find the chao" missions in Sonic Unleashed quite a few times :P and I remember going around that one level in Shadow the Hedgehog where there was alooots of chao's in that one room.. haha :P

[Mari]

harrr hell yush! XD
I really hope chao's will appear in Sonic Generations atleast in some way :3
I played those "find the chao" missions in Sonic Unleashed quite a few times :P and I remember going around that one level in Shadow the Hedgehog where there was alooots of chao's in that one room.. haha :P

Yes the chao room on shadow. It's so sad that all that exist.

[superchao]

XD i play chao more than the actual sonic game... But buying that stuff does seem like a good idea to me :)

[Rayne]

I wish they would let your chao test their skills.

[Metalsonic3]

^Inside the gardens? :o or just have kind of "training course"?

[ShadriaFan]

How about more character chao, like Tikal, and Mephiles Chao? Those would be so cute, along with my Sonic and Shadow chao.
Patterned chao-like plaid, diamond, and snowflake?
Different fruit-more than the normal ones in the main garden, round, square/cubicale, triagle, and heart. Like Watermelon, strawberry, orange, ect, and they rasie different stats.
More toys and races
harder ranks in chao karate

[Alex]

Adding a 3rd evolution, like asking your chao if they want to be a Chaos Chao or not, would be cool. Also, more stuff for them to do, liiiike besides just racing and karate. I have 7 Chao that have beaten all those already, and it gets boring fast. More activities would be nice.

[coty-crg]

Don't mind me, just paying attention to this topic for my game. :3

[herodarknew]

the most unsetaling thing i find about chaos; i given my chao just chao fruit and drives, the unsettaling part is watching it change colour. send shivers down my spine, it is cool to see a normal chao grow up with no animal parts thou.

[cab114]

I thought that there should be sport events like chao soccer, or chao baseball.

[SonicBoom]

perhaps changing around the two-tone chao programming a bit, so you can mix two seperate colors. The chao sports idea mentioned above isn't that bad either. i'd also like to see more interaction between chao, and trainability, like an understanding of cause-and-effect.

[Zacmac74]

What the guy above me said. I don't want to buy chaos drives and such instead of getting them from levels. I would not even feel like I was playing sonic.

[Jeffery Mewtamer]

I personally like the idea of buying Chaos Drives and Animals. Just as a lot of people did not like being forced to raise Chao to get all the Emblems, I do particularly like being forced to play action stages when I am in the mood to chill with my Chao. This is one reason I would prefer Chao to return as their own franchise instead of being regulated to minigame status in a Sonic title.

Here are some ideas I have(These all assume a Chao system enhanced from SA2B + SADX)
A proper inventory with separate sections:
Animals and Drives: Hold up to 99 of each animal and drive, sorted by stat.
Eggs: Hold up to 48 Chao Eggs that do not count towards population of any Garden.
Hats: Hold up to 48 Chao Hats(includes discard egg shells)
Fruit: Hold up to 99 of each type of fruit(including TCG fruit)
Black Market arranged similar to inventory

Implement most of the stuff that has been proven as false rumors or found as beta leftovers.

View full Chao stats in Garden(no need to go to the doctor) with the following additions:
Evolution History: Keeps Record of Chao's form at each reincarnation
Pedigree: Displays Direct ancestors and Children
Sport Record includes the option to switch which medal the Chao wears.

Chao Breeder Statistics with the following Information:
Breeding Chart: Displays which breeds you have obtained
Evolution Chart: Displays which evolutions you have obtained(includes, First Evolutions, Pure Second Evolutions, and Hybrid Second Evolutions, with Second Evolutions registered at time of reincarnation)
Records including:
Highest Stat Value achieved in each stat(Goal: 3,266)
Highest Total Stat Value Achieved(Goal: 16,330)
Highest Stat Rank Increase in each stat(Goal: E > S)
Highest Total Stat Rank Increase(Goal: EEEEE > SSSSS)
Records for each Chao Olympics Event.

Chao Olympics:
In addition to Races(including both old tracks and new one) and Karate, several additional events are added including:
Gymnastics(Solo)
Tag Team, 2-on-2, 3-on-3, and Battle Royal divisions in Karate
Soccer(Team and Goalie Vs Kicker Divisions)
Basketball(1-on-1, 2-on-2, 3-on-3, and Full Team Divisions)
Baseball(Team and Batter Vs Picker Divisions)
In team sports, in addition to stats of individual Chao impacting outcomes, how well the Chao selected get along is a factor.
Sporting Events include monetary prizes for winning, with the system granting big bonuses to first time winners. For example, Karate might award 20,000 rings to a Chao who wins their first Super Rank Tournament, but only award 2,000 Rings for each successive victory at the Super Rank.

[Zacmac74]

^
You have some really great ideas, but they would largely clutter the gardens. Sega would have to put major effort into it, and I don't see it happening. But on a not more related to the topic, I think that having a better stat system and with pedigrees and such is an amazing idea. The could let you press the lt or rt/ r2 or l2 to scroll through different sections.

[FiverTheProphet]

To get jewel chao WITHOUT the Gameboy Advance and connector cord.

[ChaosDragon]

^I hear that.
I would like to see some ability to customize the appearance of the garden, like to rearrange the decoration.
Also to make the Dark garden a little less outlandish, with non-blood water and leafy trees.

[Sonicheart]

To get jewel chao WITHOUT the Gameboy Advance and connector cord.

Can't agree more.
I don't think a chao game by itself would be a good idea. Either two things might happen;
1. The game gets boring really fast because all you could do is raise the chao; you can only watch them during races and karate.
2. The Sonic franchise follows the same pattern as The Rayman franchise. When the Rabbids were introduced in Rayman and the Raving Rabbids, the Rabbids were so popular they got their own game and that was a huge sucess, so then Rayman was pushed out of the picture. With a Chao game, the same thing may happen to Sonic.
I hope they bring the chao garden back in Sonic Generations. What they should also do is add bartering to the Black Market. When the chao at the black market makes an offer, there should be two arrows, one that go's up, and the other down. Select one and press A to raise the price, and then see if the merchant will be willing to buy it at that price.