[Theory] ACN removed, SMN remade

[Sove92]

He must work for some truly inept programmers if he thinks refactoring every 'Lancer' flag to a 'Dragoon' flag and checking for some outlier cases would be a more disastrous and unstable undertaking compared to any other changes the game receives.

Why can't we still queue on DF with a chocobo out, if adding a few more checks is so simple? Because it is not so simple, there are so many different dependencies with such a critical component as the class system that removing it is no longer worth the effort, it should have been done when 2.0 was still in development.

[Krr]

Why can't we still queue on DF with a chocobo out, if adding a few more checks is so simple?

Because if you understand coding, refactoring variables is not "adding a few more checks." It is "changing the inputs and outputs of some checks in a minor way that doesn't otherwise alter the logic tree."

You aren't actually 'removing' or 'adding' any game logic by removing classes and replacing them with level one jobs. You're simply changing how existing logic takes inputs. Data sets != logic.

DFing with your chocobo out would require restructuring an entire set of complex network logic and make it account for multiple edge case inputs.

I am a little curious, if Arcanist goes into both SCH and SMN, does one of them get a new 1-30 questline?

Probably not, unless the developers want to do something special for one of them. I could see adding 3-5 skill slots for DoL skills, since they're basically QoL to begin with and don't mechanically impact combat to begin with. Even the stealth abilities don't really do anything in a dungeon.