Adventuring Fellow suggestion compilation: Ideas for your partner in Arms.

[Ryce]

Karb, I love the initiative ^^ I love my NPC but hate how limited it is ><.

I would love to see an equipment screen. I think that would be a nice little boost to the economy and even coax a few more players into crafting. Currently, I have to limit my NPC leveling based on the right family of mobs so I don't mess up my gear progression... it's frustrating! I'd rather gear it up out of my own pocket and take it out leveling somewhere where I can farm/skill myself at the same time.

Going beyond that, I think new text commands to better control it's behavior would be sweet. /npcws "Fast Blade" <bt>. /npcma "Cure IV" <me>. This may be too much to ask for... but it would be sweeeet ^^

[Firebert_Lakshmi]

I like the idea of allowing you to pick the distance from the mob. Their own equip menu would be nice too.

[Malamasala]

*Abyssea - This would make them infinitely more used.

Only thing that I care about. I haven't leveled my npc from 62 due to where I get my exp is in voidwatch, Dynamis, Abyssea, and they are not welcome there. Why would I bother going to other zones and solo slow exp just for my npc friend? I don't have time to level TWO accounts.

[Huckster]

One more idea to implement - managing buffs / debuffs. There should be the possibility to turn it on / off like:
- "Cast enfeebling magic on enemy / Don't cast enfeebling magic on enemy"
- "Cast enhancing magic on me / Don't cast enhancing magic on me"

[Huckster]

Community reps - can we have the reply to the ideas posted in the first post? Kamate? Gildrein? Sasunaich?

[Aver]

Seriously Karb, this would make me stop wanting to punt my npc like the taru he is and use him more often.

[Mirage]

Imo, one of the easiest ways to make the AI "better" would be to be able to enable/disable specific spells and abilities from a menu, sort of like how you do in star ocean/tales of games.

It might not be the solution that makes the NPC the smartest he/she can be, but to me, it seems like perhaps the most easy fix to implement for SE. And we all know the less work something is to implement, the more likely we are to get it .

[Huckster]

Imo, one of the easiest ways to make the AI "better" would be to be able to enable/disable specific spells and abilities from a menu, sort of like how you do in star ocean/tales of games.

It might not be the solution that makes the NPC the smartest he/she can be, but to me, it seems like perhaps the most easy fix to implement for SE. And we all know the less work something is to implement, the more likely we are to get it .

Yeah - that's the idea of "Blue Magic select tool" for NPC's abilities / spells and weaponskills mentioned in this thread.

[Mirage]

I must have missed that post somewhere.

[Camiie]

When I was slogging through Magian trial, my Soothing Healer NPC would cast Silence on buffalo of all things. I guess they have MP, but they certainly don't cast any spells. Also, even when not casting pointless debuffs she just keeps on casting until she runs out of MP.

I guess she'll never get auto-refresh unless I change her to stalwart shield, which I don't want to do, but something needs to be done as others have stated to make their AI smarter. I don't have a great suggestion of my own, but I can at least add to the voices of those who'd like smarter NPCs or more control over how they act.