Process:
Get your chocobo to Rank-40 and retire.
Choose the breeder you wish to use and take both forms to the breeder in Bentbranch.
Pick up your fledgeling's registration at Bentbranch after 6 hours. (You will also receive the registration of your original chocobo back for future breeding attempts if you so desire. As you can see in the SS below, your starter chicken has a total of 10 breeding attempts in it.)
Register your fledgeling to view it's final stats.
Your naming question: Yes you will have to rename. But there is nothing stopping you from choosing the same name over and over again.
My own experience:
I'll use screenshots since It'll be easier to explain.
The one on the right is my original r-40 starter chocobo. The left is a one time breeder. The stats on the one time breeders are random, near as I can tell and they in theory get consistently better stars the higher the Grade rank.
Why did I choose a g3 and not higher? You'll probably see why below but the short answer is because the probability of starting with the starter chocobo's stats is still too high. And if I ended up with a complete dud then I'm not throwing out a lot of MGP for another breeding attempt at this low of a generation stage.
Now there are two phases where inheriting takes place. At the stage you take into account the Grandparent stat of both birds. These will condense down, as you'll see below.
For your starter chicken there will be NO variation since everything is 2 starred. It's why I wouldn't want to buy and raise a male starter registration from the vendor at Bentbranch to breed with Admiral Flamboyant. There would be little room for growth. Save from the bit of growth you get just for gaining Grade levels.
Where the male on the right only has room for growth EXCEPT in the stamina stat. Where I could potentially take a loss.
Now this was my Fledgeling's registration when I picked him up at Bentbranch:
As you can see: I inherited the father's ability(yay!) and colouration.
What I got from the father's pedigree:
Grandmother's maximum speed
Grandmother's acceleration
Grandfather's endurance
Grandmother's stamina (EEP! D: )
And cunning is the same for both grandparents so we don't know which was actually chosen.
When I turn in my registration the final outcome is decided.
So what did I actually gain? Apparently the stat maximums are tied not only to how many stars there are but also to the Grade. Even though I inherited most things from the mother and are listed as 2 stars, the stat maxes are now up 140 from 100.
My stamina is freaking huge. And as you can see you start with higher minimum values in stamina because it is max starred.
My weather preference changed. I don't know if that's random or inherited but Admiral Flamboyant liked fair weather conditions. I now have a second ability slot. The one inherited and the one I'll gain upon hitting rank 10.
All in all I think it was a worthwhile breeding attempt. It was a good experiment and while I only inherited ONE stat to be better, it's overall a better chicken because it -is- a higher Grade. I am no longer desert yellow And I got a kick ass ability that makes people yell profanity at me when I swipe their sprint shoes or stamina tokens before they can activate them.
Get your chocobo to Rank-40 and retire.
Choose the breeder you wish to use and take both forms to the breeder in Bentbranch.
Pick up your fledgeling's registration at Bentbranch after 6 hours. (You will also receive the registration of your original chocobo back for future breeding attempts if you so desire. As you can see in the SS below, your starter chicken has a total of 10 breeding attempts in it.)
Register your fledgeling to view it's final stats.
Your naming question: Yes you will have to rename. But there is nothing stopping you from choosing the same name over and over again.
My own experience:
I'll use screenshots since It'll be easier to explain.
The one on the right is my original r-40 starter chocobo. The left is a one time breeder. The stats on the one time breeders are random, near as I can tell and they in theory get consistently better stars the higher the Grade rank.
Why did I choose a g3 and not higher? You'll probably see why below but the short answer is because the probability of starting with the starter chocobo's stats is still too high. And if I ended up with a complete dud then I'm not throwing out a lot of MGP for another breeding attempt at this low of a generation stage.
Now there are two phases where inheriting takes place. At the stage you take into account the Grandparent stat of both birds. These will condense down, as you'll see below.
For your starter chicken there will be NO variation since everything is 2 starred. It's why I wouldn't want to buy and raise a male starter registration from the vendor at Bentbranch to breed with Admiral Flamboyant. There would be little room for growth. Save from the bit of growth you get just for gaining Grade levels.
Where the male on the right only has room for growth EXCEPT in the stamina stat. Where I could potentially take a loss.
Now this was my Fledgeling's registration when I picked him up at Bentbranch:
As you can see: I inherited the father's ability(yay!) and colouration.
What I got from the father's pedigree:
Grandmother's maximum speed
Grandmother's acceleration
Grandfather's endurance
Grandmother's stamina (EEP! D: )
And cunning is the same for both grandparents so we don't know which was actually chosen.
When I turn in my registration the final outcome is decided.
So what did I actually gain? Apparently the stat maximums are tied not only to how many stars there are but also to the Grade. Even though I inherited most things from the mother and are listed as 2 stars, the stat maxes are now up 140 from 100.
My stamina is freaking huge. And as you can see you start with higher minimum values in stamina because it is max starred.
My weather preference changed. I don't know if that's random or inherited but Admiral Flamboyant liked fair weather conditions. I now have a second ability slot. The one inherited and the one I'll gain upon hitting rank 10.
All in all I think it was a worthwhile breeding attempt. It was a good experiment and while I only inherited ONE stat to be better, it's overall a better chicken because it -is- a higher Grade. I am no longer desert yellow And I got a kick ass ability that makes people yell profanity at me when I swipe their sprint shoes or stamina tokens before they can activate them.