That would be dumb. Squadrons are still more interesting.
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I'd like to see them do something similar to FFXI where you can add 'secondary NPCs' to the party. ... Not just main ones. In the older content, the primary cast was always doing something else so it would be difficult to retroactively include them in the Trust system, ... but what about characters like Hoary Boulder? I'd love a short quest that allows me to add him to my Squadron. I'd use that guy constantly. It wouldn't break anything either. And as you say, copy/paste the Trust AI with minor modifications. The tiny... tiny FFXI dev team did this to create dozens upon dozens of Trust options and somehow they all ended up feeling unique.
What a joke. Have you tried doing Wanderer's Palace (Hard)? because I assure you, they did not check whether the last boss was doable in the slightest. (But for anyone new to command missions, just don't even bother with any of the lvl50 dungeons, they all give terrible exp lower than Aurum Vale. Just grind Aurum Vale until Sohm Al)
I'd assume they'll at least be bringing in yellow scrip instead of red scrip.
So long as they do that, that's all I need from them.