Retainers - Cut Non-Quick Exploration Times

[Shioban]

Retainer ventures are meant to be a casual and optional feature, it's not designed to be the most lucrative fast-paced end-game rush. The reason they're 18 hours is that you're hoping for a high-ticket and rare item such as a minion.

-Reduce Retainer Exploration time from 18 hours to 4 hours.

That's an insane difference, that's far far too much of a reduction.

-Allow retainers to grab full stacks of items or a variety of items all at once.

RMT Heaven. Imagine it. RMT logs in "Oh look, fleece is needed again. Time to set all 50 of my retainers across my characters to do fleece for a few hours!"

-Add options for how long you want your retainer to go out for. The more time selected, the more items he brings back when he does come back, the higher chance of getting rare items, and the higher chance some of those items will be high quality (Note that, if this venture is cancelled, he brings back nothing.)

This adds in more complexity, more balancing time and essentially more time wasted on something so trivial.

18 hours just seems like it's cheating the players a bit.

Seeing as it's meant to be one of those "Do it now, check tomorrow" things. It shouldn't really be that much of an issue.

I'm a bit upset about the 18 hours thing because it makes it NEAR impossible to complete the challenge log unless you pay money.

Go to the retainer, click "Quick Ventures" and pay them two ventures to go off for an hour, when they come back it'll count towards your challenge log if a few thousand gil really matters that much.

You're welcome.