Trust System / Solo Gaming

[Anselmet]

Does anyone know if you can take a friend and two trust characters into a dungeon?

[Lord_Umbra]

It won't be like this, if anything it will make your queues quicker not slower, as I don't see why a tank or healer would use the system with queue times as fast as they are, so all it will do is reduce the pool of dps waiting for a queue.

Loot, if works exact same as with players then I know I will probably only run with trust when available since all Gear/Materia/Materials/Minions/Music/Mounts will auto-drop to you.

[guardin]

Am I really in the minority, due to the fact I prefer to play with random players than bots?

On the one hand, I'm happy for the people who'll finally be able to play on their own, as they've always wanted.
On the other, I hope this doesn't mean I'm made to wait longer queues (or worse, forced to queue on my own).

playing with people gets old. I have much more fun playing alone like in kh3 or ff15 (two best games ever created) with npcs. It feels like a real rpg getting to actually go on adventures with the scions and not just have them in the background. that is why i probably do not like the scions now cause we never go on actual adventures. also i dont have to wait 30+ min on a elitist tank or healer.

People play mmos not to play with people, but to play alone in a game they can live and grow and evolve along side the game. Friends are secondary or icing on the cake. Most Japanese players play solo. Playing games just because friends are playing isnt a way to play. you are just a follower. Now if you and you friends both enjoy the game, that is acceptable. Lots of people quit a game cause their "friends" no longer play is not. I am like "if you really love the game, play alone meet more people or dont make friends just mingle and vanish." That is the best way to play for people who has a life and dont live in this game with their virtual friends.

[Pehrah]

playing with people gets old. I have much more fun playing alone like in kh3 or ff15 (two best games ever created) with npcs. It feels like a real rpg getting to actually go on adventures with the scions and not just have them in the background. that is why i probably do not like the scions now cause we never go on actual adventures. also i dont have to wait 30+ min on a elitist tank or healer.

People play mmos not to play with people, but to play alone in a game they can live and grow and evolve along side the game. Friends are secondary or icing on the cake. Most Japanese players play solo. Playing games just because friends are playing isnt a way to play. you are just a follower. Now if you and you friends both enjoy the game, that is acceptable. Lots of people quit a game cause their "friends" no longer play is not. I am like "if you really love the game, play alone meet more people or dont make friends just mingle and vanish." That is the best way to play for people who has a life and dont live in this game with their virtual friends.

You want to talk about being Elitist healers and tanks yet here you are being elitist on how people play an Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game. Key words here is Massively Multiplayer.

[SigmaOZ]

I hope the Trust System evolves into something that allows us to play the game solo if we want to!...


It has many potential advantages like getting all the loot from dungeons in order to assemble gear sets faster, it could also allow us to complete older duties where is so hard and almost impossible to find people to run the content with like past 8-man raids, but knowing the Producer (from the Live Letters) is more likely the next Final Fantasy will be ready before they can implement such system in-game!...

[AltarisSol]

Has anyone seen if we will be able to use the Trust System to complete a group and add AI NPC's to a small party. For example if I had just two players in a group but want to add the rest using the Trust System could I? Or is the Trust System strictly solo?

[JBee]

Has anyone seen if we will be able to use the Trust System to complete a group and add AI NPC's to a small party. For example if I had just two players in a group but want to add the rest using the Trust System could I? Or is the Trust System strictly solo?

Looks like solo only.

[AltarisSol]

Quote Originally Posted by AltarisSol View Post
Has anyone seen if we will be able to use the Trust System to complete a group and add AI NPC's to a small party. For example if I had just two players in a group but want to add the rest using the Trust System could I? Or is the Trust System strictly solo?
Looks like solo only.

Looks like solo only.

Noooooooooooooooooooo! I hope not. I play with my wife and we don't want to not burden the party if we want to take our time crawling or have to leave the party. It's more about the commitment for us. We were hoping the the trust system would at least let us advance the story dungeons easier than having to commit to the time to complete full dungeon at the pace of others.

I can deal with the not so nice people, sometimes, but honestly that's also a plus if we just want to share in our adventure and story together without others messing up our immersion in to the story by making stupid remarks.

The videos still provide hope. The list on the left is labeled "Current Party" I can see other players filling those slots then you having to complete the rest, plus it is clear the interface isn't done because you can't pick a dungeon.

Well, I'll still hold out some hope. Thanks for your thoughts.

[RyuujinZERO]

That's unfortunate if true; adding a trust-healer might be the only way to get a queue to pop if these healer changes go live

[NefarioCall]

I don't mind the MMO thing, but I'm just dead tired of speed running tunnel dungeons. I go out of my way to avoid it ... but I do love the tunnel dungeons, mostly. I just would rather tackle them solo with NPC AI at my own pace. Leave the online component for Primals and 8 or 24 man stuff etc.