Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII! (Ventures)

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII focusing on the many exciting updates coming with Patch 2.2! This next Live Letter will take place on Friday, March 21, 2014, from 2:30 a.m. (PDT) / 9:30 (GMT)!

In this thread we'd like you to specifically pose questions regarding the upcoming addition of ventures, various new tasks you will be able to assign to your retainers. In addition to collecting your questions in real-time via Twitter, we will also use this thread to gather your questions ahead of time and answer them during the event.

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Will retainers be able to do any task that a player can't do?

What sort of limits will be placed on ventures?

Will these ventures be cheap or expensive? Relative to a character that maybe makes at most 10k gil/day.

Will a retainer be able to sell items on the marketplace, as well as participate in a venture?

Will summoning a retainer cancel the venture it was previously assigned to?

The ability for Fishers to make money is already tenuous in game, with only a very small fraction of fish being worth anything.

How will you balance the ability for retainers to catch these fish and still keep fishing actually worthwhile, as little as it is currently?

Will our retainers have to specialize in a certain skill in order to complete some ventures?

Will players be able to see Retainers out in the world while they are doing these tasks?

How effective will ventures be by comparison to a player manually performing their own tasks?

Can we get a 3rd retainer? Or will using this system unlock additional ones? Between crafting, gathering, and saving dungeon dropped gear for glamor or hopefully displaying in personal housing, (on all classes/jobs) I'm almost out of space.

The addition of more retainer-related content sounds great, but it also highlights and magnifies a current problem with retainers: there's basically no way to change their appearance. In theory, we can completely empty a retainer's inventory to do so, but that would be tedious even if we could find a place to put everything they're holding. Please comment on plans to allow a retainer to be replaced with a new one automatically inheriting the old one's inventory, for Fantasia and the aesthetitician to be extended to retainers, etc. Thanks! =)

Will we be able to hire additional retainers using real money on the mog station? If yes, how much will these retainers cost?

Exactly what specific services will the retainers used in venture offer?

If Ventures will increase retainer levels, what will the retainer level cap be to start us off?

Will ventures involve sending our retainers to attack other retainers to stop them from selling for a while?

(You could include leveling them up, getting different abilities and group battles)

Will we be able to raise the "level" of the retainer in specific ventures/jobs? Also, will there be obtainable abilities/perks?

Will we be able to set our Retainer to tend on our Fields in Housing..?
Will Venture have a leveling up progress in someway to improve them as we use Venture feature more often?

Please give us another retainer, this could make inventory space even worse. :-(

- The economy is unstable because half the people are trying to make profit, the other just want to remove items as cheaply as possible for more bag space.
- Economy prices (especially on Gilgamesh) fluctuate as far as 1000 gil per item within an hour. This could be stabilized if we could hold more items so less people undercut the economy.
- I still can't store my holiday items from December into the armoire, so I'm forced to delete them to make more bag space.

Will we be able to use the Aesthetician on our Retainers yet? I want to be able to change my retainer's hairstyle to one of the recently added ones. Also, I really would like to be able to dress my retainers up in... well, anything is better than the handmaid/maiden gear they wear now.

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Will we be able to use the Aesthetician on our Retainers yet? I want to be able to change my retainer's hairstyle to one of the recently added ones. Also, I really would like to be able to dress my retainers up in... well, anything is better than the handmaid/maiden gear they wear now.

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I agree with you, TheGrimace I would want to change my retainer looks and I also want to give them a Lightning's haircut. :P

Is the retainers ability limited to your ability in a task?

If I have a level 50 fishing class but a level 10 miner class will my retainer have a proficiency in fishing proportional or equal to mine? Will it not be able to venture for higher ores?

This would increase the desire to level gathering and crafting classes as you can put in the time to level to 50 then not have to keep banging away at it to utilize it. Sort of like unlocking passives on a class i don't enjoy playing for the benefit of my character as a whole.

If our retainers have a level/rank system, will we be able to re-spec our retainers (avoid the current issue we have at the moment with our Chocobo Companions Rank)?

With the introduction of Ventures, we see that we can choose a class for our retainer, and level them up, will we ever be able to summon our retainers to aid us in combat? instead of our chocobo companion~?

If players can use real money to get more retainers, and therefore more ventures(?) Won't that give them a slight edge akin to Pay To Win? My question is: How are you going to balance ventures? I don't think anyone wants to see ARR head down the P2W line.