Summoners... what to do with them?

[darkegg]

Just a thought,

but summoning could be
summoning the summons and they will be like, a guest npc that activates his summon's skill after 3 turns and disappears?

Something like FFX, just that the summon's skill is of the same as summoning the summon's attack, and the damage done is based on the remaining hp of the summon.

Also, while the summon is active, the summoner is under the casting status?

And if the summoner moves before the 3 turns of the summon is up, the summon will disappear without its *limit* activating.

However this would involve new sprites for the summons, and ai, and even more fftpatcher.

[LastingDawn]

Not a possibility, you could potentially break the 9 sprite limit, thereby causing massive problems.

[darkegg]

True. Maybe changing the summoner itself to take up two slots in the deployment screen would be the solution?

[LastingDawn]

What you are assuming is that we have this much power for Massive ASM Hacks, there is nothing in the game that Ever summons another sprite, nor is there nothing in the game that ever takes up two spots in the formation screen. This also doesn't take into account Enemy Summoners, also their is basically no Formation Screen in Mercenaries, Ramza is the only unit you can "freely place" in events.

[The Damned]

...there is nothing in the game that Ever summons another sprite....

That's technically not true.

It's just that those abilities are more "event" abilities rather than free abilities. I mean, pretty much all Zodiac fights summon another sprite and we can see the animation to summon demons and (the) Angel in FFTPatcher.

...Yeah.

(Otherwise I would agree that a Yuna-esque Summoner takes up too much damn space, unless you could only limit it one enemy being able to activate the ability and then one ally being do the same at a time. Even then....)

[Archael]

If you want to get into technicalities;

What LD meant was that there are currently no player controlled, in-battle methods of summoning another unit / sprite.

And it is correct.