Remove Trust System from future Trials

[Eyrilona]

I think the issues is that at certain points in the story, the MSQ is serving the Trust system, instead of the other way around. I think it was in 6.3 or 6.4, where Thancred just shows up just before the dungeon, because otherwise you wouldn't have had a Tank role. After the dungeon is over, he just leaves instantly.

The Trust system on its own is great, but NPCs just popping in/out because of it is kinda terrible.

I can see where you are coming from with that comment, but I think you are mixing up Trusts with Duty Support. Trust has never cared about who was actually with you at that point in the story. I can do a Trust run of the first MSQ dungeon with Y'sthola, G'raha, and Urianger if I wanted to, and none of those were on the right continent or on your side at that time in the story.

A for Duty Support, I agree that it was ridiculous that scions were getting dragged along as silent bystanders through the story just to have them canonically there for Duty Support, but the more obvious solution to that is that they could have just filled the needed slots with some generic locals helping out just like how in low level dungeons Duty Support tends to be unnamed Grand Company soldiers. There was no need for you to travel with an entourage at all.

[Irru]

I can see where you are coming from with that comment, but I think you are mixing up Trusts with Duty Support. Trust has never cared about who was actually with you at that point in the story. I can do a Trust run of the first MSQ dungeon with Y'sthola, G'raha, and Urianger if I wanted to, and none of those were on the right continent or on your side at that time in the story.

A for Duty Support, I agree that it was ridiculous that scions were getting dragged along as silent bystanders through the story just to have them canonically there for Duty Support, but the more obvious solution to that is that they could have just filled the needed slots with some generic locals helping out just like how in low level dungeons Duty Support tends to be unnamed Grand Company soldiers. There was no need for you to travel with an entourage at all.

Sorry yeah, I hardly ever use it, so I get the terms mixed up, but it's basically what you said.