Trust System and Castrum Meridianum, Praetorium

[Feronar]

So I was looking on the SB promotional site, and I saw something interesting:

Trust System

In Shadowbringers, players will have the opportunity to challenge dungeons with a party of trusted non-player characters, including various Scions of the Seventh Dawn—though the traditional party matching systems will of course remain intact.

From https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/shadowbringers/system/

It looks like it will allow players to enter dungeons with all their teammates being bots. I wonder if this can be used in Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium to resolve once and for all the conflict between new players wanting to experience it properly for the first time and experienced players wanting to blast through as quickly as possible.

[MrThinker]

It looks like it will allow players to enter dungeons with all their teammates being bots. I wonder if this can be used in Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium to resolve once and for all the conflict between new players wanting to experience it properly for the first time and experienced players wanting to blast through as quickly as possible.

As revealed in the EU fanfest and re-iterated upon during the JP fanfest, the Trust system, upon its introduction, will only be available for Shadowbringers specific story dungeons, with specific npcs being available for those dungeons depending on the story at those points. Now, that isn't to say that they wouldn't later expand this to retroactively include ARR, HW and SB story dungeons, but you need to remember that for most of those dungeons story wise you are travelling solo/with a group of adventurers depending on how you personally think the story goes. Yes they might later relax the whole 'story-moment specific npcs' and then allow Castrum and Praetorium to be done this way, but it is too early to say.

[Kurando]

There is nothing to resolve wth the MSQ roulette. New players that queue up get to enjoy the cutscenes while repeat players get rewarded for the time they spend in there. That's it, the only conflict is repeaters wanting the full reward for much less time (no CS), which is completely optional for them to queue up to begin with.