My first bad experience with another player. :o

[kikix12]

The developers wouldn't put so much effort into it. It is neither efficient nor worthwhile. It would be a lot easier to make these dungeons into solo instances with simplified mechanics and basic AI NPC's supporting you, and they still didn't do that.

Developers stated that they want to make the grand company squadrons into "adventurers" that you can enter some dungeons prepared for that. That means they would make proper (hopefully) AI for them and set the grounds for running mechanically complicated content with AI-led members. That's when these two dungeons MAY get such change (even if not related to the squadrons themselves).

I'd be all for that. As much as this is an MMO, I'd love it if I could run every (lowest difficulty!) dungeon with a squad of NPC's, even if the rewards were appropriately smaller, just to properly learn the mechanics without the numerous variables that come from live players.

[Sarteck]

I'd be all for [running with the Squad]

I love that idea, actually.

[EDIT}: They could actually mix the two, and just let your Squad fill any unopen slots. Like if my buddy and I went in there, he and I could have 3 Squad members each, for a total of 8.

[LineageRazor]

I love that idea, actually.

[EDIT}: They could actually mix the two, and just let your Squad fill any unopen slots. Like if my buddy and I went in there, he and I could have 3 Squad members each, for a total of 8.

Letting newbies run with their Squadron would be great... if not for the fact that Squadrons are locked behind so much crap that VERY few newbies would have them unlocked by the time they got to CM/Prae. Lost opportunity, there.

Biggest difference JP community is polite vs us in the west. If you played FFXI you know what i'm talking about. Sad

Yeah, someone has apparently forgotten about JP ONRY!!1! Played FFXI for nearly fourteen years, and JP are just as capable of douchebaggery as western players. The self-directed bigotry I often see on these forums is pretty tiresome: people are people, the world over, and JP's supposed emphasis on community over individualism doesn't change that one bit.

[kikix12]

Letting newbies run with their Squadron would be great... if not for the fact that Squadrons are locked behind so much crap that VERY few newbies would have them unlocked by the time they got to CM/Prae. Lost opportunity, there.

As a main story quest, it is very likely to get an outside NPC treatment instead of the adventurer squadron, making it a solo duty like many others. That would probably mean the end of the roulette and the dungeon version being forgotten in the oblivion (despite probably still being unlocked by finishing the solo duty).

[Sarteck]

That means they would make proper (hopefully) AI for them and set the grounds for running mechanically complicated content with AI-led members.

As far as this goes, something like the "Gambit" system from FFXII would be utterly fantastic.