Gambit System For Pet Classes And Companions?

[Engineer]

Whats Is The Gambit System?

It's a way to automate some simple commands for your characters based on a simple conditional system. When a certain condition you set is met your character will respond with an action based on what you define before hand. For example you can setup a gambit so that whenever an ally's HP drops below 50% you cast cure on them. Or if a monster is weak to ice you can have your mage cast an ice spell automatically
targeting them without any interaction from you the player at all!

Gambits are a very powerful and helpful tool because they allow you to focus
on other things during a battle instead of having to worry about micromanaging
every character's actions throughout the course of a battle to ensure that they
are always doing the exact thing that you want them to be doing. For the
purposes of this guide I will be using the following format when writing out a
gambit command:

condition -> action

So the left side of the -> represents the specific condition gambit and on the
right side of the -> is the action the character will take when the gambit
condition is true.

There are rules though how gambits work once you start to use multiple gambit
statements for a character. The rules are as follows:

-Gambits take priority based the slot they are assigned. The lower the slot
number the higher priority the statement is. So this means slot 1 will
always be executed before slot 2 which in turn will always execute before
slot 3.

-If a condition is met, after the action is completed the game starts looking
from the first slot down until it finds another condition that is true and
executes that action.

-A user defined command will always override any current gambit commands in
progress but after the user command is completed the game goes back to the
top of the gambit list before deciding an action for the character.

-If for some reason a gambit command can't be executed that command is not
executed until the command can be used again. An example would be if you
are set to cast a spell when a certain condition is met but you can't because
you are silenced or have no mp then the character will skip the gambit and
move on to the next in the list.

Below I will show another example gambit this time with multiple conditions and
explain how the AI will work in battle and why that is. Take a look at the
following gambit:

1. Ally: HP < 50% -> Cure
2. Self -> Protect
3. Foe: Party leader's target -> attack

Source : http://faqs.ign.com/articles/745/745582p1.html

I think this would be ideal since companion and pet AI isnt all that great in video games.

I played a Pup in XI, and it kinda sucked to rely on the awful AI at times.

What do you guys think?

[MariyaShidou]

So you want DA Tactic system? That's cool I guess.

Cause FFXII Gambit wasn't as robust as DA Tactic.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Yea reminds me of DA tactics. I never got around to truely using it I mostly used hp/stam/mp pots through it and left the rest to default.

I would however be in favor of something similar in XIV just not for DoM, mostly for items, the assist and all DoW to auto execute those conditional attacks like haymaker, jarring strike, phalanx, aswell as guard. being able to keep those up while pumping out my other abilities to either keep myself alive or deal more dmg would be great.

[Synthesis]

Gambits were really cool, but this is not FFXII. Yet I wish sometimes it had FFXII-stylish command menu isntead of tis 1 up to 3 switch-bar.

[Engineer]

Gambits were really cool, but this is not FFXII. Yet I wish sometimes it had FFXII-stylish command menu isntead of tis 1 up to 3 switch-bar.

If it was XII I wouldn't be suggesting it.

Also, every game has AI, so why should XII be the only game that has a feature that allows you to customize AI behaviors?

[Roll]

+1 This would be a nice customizable system for pets/companions.

[Cyan]

Customizing my pet AI would make me a happy camper.
That's...all I can say. Would like, although I suppose it is not necessary.

[SydeBeheln]

I like this.

Given that pets/companions have enough options to gambit with.

I could see a Conj. companion maybe set up with
-1. Heal member under <50%.
-2. Cast Blizzard on party leaders target.

[Jim]

I would love this, but make a set amout of gambits so that someone can't just go to work with their PC on and reach 50 for doing nothing.

Attack -> Nearest target
Cure II -> 50%> HP
etc.

[Engineer]

I would love this, but make a set amout of gambits so that someone can't just go to work with their PC on and reach 50 for doing nothing.

Attack -> Nearest target
Cure II -> 50%> HP
etc.

I agree, like just give us like 6 slots or so to choose what we really want the AI to do and not have it do everything for us..