Solution to all the problems with this game

[Tiggy]

Yup, clearly fixes ALL problems with the game by solving 1 thing.

[Fyrebrand]

Companion system object has many complex and memory intensive infrastructure seeing as how its an instance of a party member that gains exp and has its own stats and skill sets. Its also likely a local object running on the client. Once summoned it acts as a special party member flag.

Tons of MMORPGs have so-called "complex and memory intensive" AI pets -- for example, Ranger/Hunter type classes who perpetually have animal companions with them, even after they enter a dungeon. Heck, even in FFXIV, we have summoners who have AI pets that can enter the dungeon with them. The game demonstrates that it can even check to see if the pet is appropriate for the dungeon's level, and auto-dismiss before you come in, as required. There is no reason a chocobo can't also be auto-dismissed in this fashion, especially when there is no additional level check required before doing so.

Honestly, what is the worst thing that could happen, if DF didn't flag chocobo companions as fake "party members," and just disregarded them while in a queue? Then, when the DF window pops and tells you the instance is ready, there is an extra line of text in the window that says "Chocobo companions will be dismissed before entering." So, you click OK, and before anything else happens your chocobo is dismissed. Fade to black, allow time to do a chocobo "memory dump" or whatever you call it, then enter the dungeon. Nobody has chocobos in the instance, nobody's game is trying to render a party full of people with chocobos.

If you've played a Tank or Healer, obviously you know it is possible to have essentially an "instant" queue in DF. You could have had a chocobo companion out literally a second ago, and the game did not need to get away for a spa weekend after stressing over the "complex and memory intensive" chocobo.

Regardless of whether it is easy or hard to fix, the fact that it was ever made this way from the start is bad enough. They invented chocobo companions. They invented Duty Finder. They decided it would be okay to implement features that clashed with each other, and couldn't/wouldn't find a way to make them work harmoniously together.

While in a DF queue, I can be running around in the open world and fighting a hunt mark with 20+ other players and their chocobos running around me. I can be doing a leve. I can be another job entirely, with different skills, exp bar, and gear, then switch back when the queue pops. I can even go to the FC house and feed/train my chocobo at the stable, while the game keeps track of its stats and abilities.

Square Enix is perfectly capable of programming a system that can tell the difference between a real player and an AI-controlled NPC. The only mystery, at this point, is if they put all this together completely unaware of the inconvenience it would cause players, or if it was done intentionally as a time sink.

[Wishangel]

Yup, clearly fixes ALL problems with the game by solving 1 thing.

lmao Well, I don't have any problems with this game other then that, but I am open to the idea that other people may have a list of issues they'd like addressed :P