7.0 Summoner Dreams?

[rawker]

I don't know exactly how the code works for XIV but I have a feeling this is not a feasible solution, otherwise they would have done it for Searing Light instead of just having the summoner cast it, it also would have worked before the change when SMN still had pets to command and they never implemented such a change.

How is it not feasible? The only change to be done will be the check where the ability will originate. And I find it quite baffling knowing that pets in mmos aren't a new concept but 14's engine isn't capable of handling such despite having initial code to handle it?

If so, i think this is not a technical issue but a prioritization issue. They have the resources to do so. For sure they have a way to test it and emulate worst case scenarios.

[SieyaM]

How is it not feasible? The only change to be done will be the check where the ability will originate. And I find it quite baffling knowing that pets in mmos aren't a new concept but 14's engine isn't capable of handling such despite having initial code to handle it?

If so, i think this is not a technical issue but a prioritization issue. They have the resources to do so. For sure they have a way to test it and emulate worst case scenarios.

I don't know very much about XIV's engine but I do know they messed around with pets for at least 4 years and never got it quite right. It is usually never as simple as "just change originating location", especially in a game that has been ongoing and changing for 10 years. Code easily gets entangled in ways never intended. There is after all the whole TF2 coconut story to show how code can be very strange and unpredictable at times.

[Silverquick]

How is it not feasible? The only change to be done will be the check where the ability will originate. And I find it quite baffling knowing that pets in mmos aren't a new concept but 14's engine isn't capable of handling such despite having initial code to handle it?

If so, i think this is not a technical issue but a prioritization issue. They have the resources to do so. For sure they have a way to test it and emulate worst case scenarios.

Sieya is actually telling you the truth, that really was the way it came out.
Even I remember it from back in the day how jank the pet controls were. I was one of the players that started in ARR and started on SMN.
And that is exactly what happened. I can remember back in the beginning the only pets I used were either the chicken nugget for solo and overworld play for the provoke... or in dungeons./raids Garuda because you had to for the Contagion power for the DoTs. I think by the time of Stormblood due to the reworks only Ifrit ever got used.