Retainer suggestion?

I had a thought today that it would be kind of cool if when you sent your retainer off on a mission, you could actually see them out in the world doing their thing, and so could other players... so that, for instance, if you saw another player's retainer out hunting monsters, you could help them defeat them and maybe there would be some interaction with your own retainer(s), or they'd give you some GC seals or gil to thank you for helping. I feel it would be interesting to see, and make the open world feel more active and organic. I'm not sure how feasible (if at all) this would be to implement from a technical stand-point, but I think it would be cool to see some retainer guy running around, and you could ask him if he's got anything for sale, etc. Thoughts?

Just your retainer?
That sounds like a nifty little idea.
They could just spawn them somewhere chilling like Alpha.
I can dig it.

its not a bad idea and would make seeing them out there interesting. but I think it should be like Alpha sightings, you see your retainers, you dont interact with other peoples retainers.

A good idea, but my retainer steals everything she brings me from other people.

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Originally Posted by LiveLongGiraffe

I had a thought today that it would be kind of cool if when you sent your retainer off on a mission, you could actually see them out in the world doing their thing, and so could other players... so that, for instance, if you saw another player's retainer out hunting monsters, you could help them defeat them and maybe there would be some interaction with your own retainer(s), or they'd give you some GC seals or gil to thank you for helping. I feel it would be interesting to see, and make the open world feel more active and organic. I'm not sure how feasible (if at all) this would be to implement from a technical stand-point, but I think it would be cool to see some retainer guy running around, and you could ask him if he's got anything for sale, etc. Thoughts?

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You know I have been told you on the lodestone blogs you can see your retainers out in the field in certain spots like CCH and Northern Thanalan.

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Originally Posted by MsMisato

You know I have been told you on the lodestone blogs you can see your retainers out in the field in certain spots like CCH and Northern Thanalan.

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Sort of. There are spots where a generic npc dressed in the starting retainer gear and mining will occassionally appear. The implication is that it is a retainer, but it's not someone's actual retainer.

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Originally Posted by Mhaeric

Sort of. There are spots where a generic npc dressed in the starting retainer gear and mining will occassionally appear. The implication is that it is a retainer, but it's not someone's actual retainer.

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Ahhh I see and here I was hoping to see my little lala botanist out doing his thing lol.

Probably not feasible. The information on your retainer (appearance, jobs, etc) is apparently pulled from the server when you click on the summoning bell. That information goes away when you close out the session with your retainers.