Rather then Chocobo's to fight by our side, why not our alts?

[Delmontyb]

While I mainly play with my main character, I often wish that I could call out the other characters that I have made on my server, to fight along side of me.

Back at Fan Fest, Yoshi-P hinted that the gambit system would be coming and we could fight along side our other mounts. Which is awesome, and I'm looking forward to it, but a part of me wants to be able to fight along side my other character, leveling them up on my own, and being able to equip their gear, and develop their skills etc.

Anyway, there are a number of issues that this could bring up, let along with those who can only create one character per server, but I figured I'd post it as I'd like to have more of that party setting with AI controlled party members.

Keep in mind, this wouldn't be setup for all content.

Thanks for your time and consideration.


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There is a lot of debate over retainers vs alts, and I agree with both sides. Using a retainer as a "companion" sounds just fine to me, and I would say, give players the option of both. Call out a retainer or an alt, you'd have the same interface for Gambits, and other controls, equipment, etc. The only difference is that if you switch to your alt, you could have made story progress on them.

I hope this helps clarify, this is something I'd like to see over just the Chocobo companion.

[KeluBehemoth]

I thought using retainers would be cool but this is actually a really good idea and I'd like a reason to start a new character to experience the story again all in one sequential piece

[KeluBehemoth]

They could add a small armoury bonus to alt characters to encourage it beyond uncapped tomes which doesn't draw me in at the moment

[Delmontyb]

They could add a small armoury bonus to alt characters to encourage it beyond uncapped tomes which doesn't draw me in at the moment

That would be cool.

[Twilite]

While I mainly play with my main character, I often wish that I could call out the other characters that I have made on my server, to fight along side of me. And when my inventory is full, let me trade stuff to my alt.

Fixed, because I just got that feeling. :P

[Gokuhan]

A lot of people don't use alts. I think calling our retainers would be much better.

[NoahArks]

This would also need another overhaul to some content. I just want more companions. The chocobo is boring. Give us a moogle that flies after you even after you're seated on a mount. Companion dungeons would also be fun. A solo dungeon you can conquer with your companion.

[Terrini]

Retainers might be awesome, but they aren't necessarily battle classes and can only have one class and switching they lose all progress as other classes.

I think it would be awesome to run with my alts though... Especially if they can get experience... And I generally default on them to healers so a 4 healer party might be cool...although, oddly on Balmung my characters are a tank, a healer and 2 DPS XD

[Gamer3427]

Just no. I don't want to have to create an alt and spend weeks grinding on them and gearing them up just to have another option as a companion. This game was designed around making it so you didn't have to level alts, so it seems to me like a very dumb idea to throw that out the window when there's plenty of other options for introducing new companions that are accessible to all players....

[Delmontyb]

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I understand where you are coming from there, but to say that the game isn't designed around it, yet we have the option to create a lot of characters (8 on basic, and 40 on standard).

I think that creating the character, and then calling them out on your main, or having your main join them could be pretty cool. The way I see it is that you could have a 4 person party (including your main) and setup gambits for your characters. You could switch control to each one as needed, and let the gambits take over (much like with FF12) and tackle a lot of content.

Duty Finder would be out, but you could go into content with your light party, etc. And the ability to "build out" different party setups seems interesting (to me again)

It's not for everyone, but I'd like it.