Ok well here is my question as i have to ask it for a developer or other official persons to answer as my DM would only trust the word of one such person.
Here is the problem: My DM rules that since classes alike Druid and summoner have the Link ability which allows them to handle there animal companion/edilon as a free action. my Dm sees this as precedent and uses it to justify that you have to use a standard action, each round that you have a summoned creature to control that creature. if you have multiple summoned creatures you can handle them all as a standard action but you still have to use a standard action because summoning does not give you the link ability.
Now i think this is stupid and not how the rules are suppose to work at all. But my DM will not listen to me because "Well if the designers wanted it to work that way they would of given you the link ability with what you summon"
as currently you have to give up your standard to allow your summon to attack each round or it does nothing. taking you out of the combat for a lower lvl creature. He says that this is what separates a summoner from a sorcerer because otherwise "why ever play a summoner?"
can anyone official help me out here?