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Topics - Lorden Cain

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Hi, Lorden's back! After 22 months, that is.
Hope somebody still remembered me even after appearing for just a couple of weeks the first time I registered here.

Anyways, here's a question for the WotL players:

Do you prefer to have a specific job class to only be able to effectively defeat a specific monster family? Or not?

For example, when you met a group of dragons and hydras, you should deploy a Dragoon to annihilate them easily. If you use other job, let's say Geomancer, they'll be having a hard time defeating those dragons. But, still beatable the hard way, though. So in foresight, you'll have to change job classes frequently to adapt to the future events.

I am asking because, obviously, for me that's somewhat fun. But, I feel it is very troublesome so I would like the opinion of the people who will be playing my mod in the future.

A little background in the mod:
I've changed every generic and special job/ability/items/skillset names and descriptions. Added a few monsters, very few. Changed generic job sprites. Already done most of it that I can actually upload it within this week. However, I am also changing the events. I am 1% done with the events. I have a video of the opening event, I'll post it if you want to look at it. I changed everyone's names and some of their personalities and histories.

Being my first mod, I really pour my heart onto it. So if you have opinions regarding the problem mentioned above, I would really be grateful. And as a side note, please stay on the topic. I know the limitations of WotL modding so please don't say something like what I want isn't doable or not.

So, yeah! Pour out all your opinions. :D

So, yeah! I'm actually not famous here so you might want to skip this one. However, I just want to clear something out for those people who I've conversed with that might still remember me. I don't want to look like someone who just shows then poof! The first topic I posted here in ffhacktics way back involves about the unravelling of my nearly-finished mod. I also asked for opinions on the matter and took it to heart. But then, my laptop died a brutal death. I wasn't able to salvage anything from it. Needless to say, my nearly-finished mod was gone. :cry: Fast forward to November 2017, I've bought a new laptop. That heartbreak would have stopped me from doing everything all over again but the "Motivate" status instilled upon me by Angel/Toshiko hasn't been removed yet. So here's a new nearly-finished mod. I hope nothing unfortunate would happen again. Pray with me.  ;)
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I had just registered in FFH but it's already been a year that I am passively viewing some topics here in this forum. And I'm currently working on my newbie hack using FFTPatcher. Many talks about WotL hacks being ignored had made me doubt my efforts though. I mean, should I finish it knowing that no one would even take the time to download it if it's done? Should I move my effort to hacking PSX instead? Am I really just wasting my time?

As a beginner to this kind of industry(?), it would made me feel I achieved something if I started with this simple version first. After that, I'm gonna step up my game. But there are two possible outcome: 1)I will be motivated to work on PSX [I perfectly knew how difficult it can be] or 2) I will be discouraged in pursuing hacking either versions.

Am I talking in circles? All I wanted to know is, are there still quite a number of people that are interested in new approach to WotL? Here's what I've already done:

- New whole sets of Job Classes and their own Descriptions
- New whole sets of Skills and their own Descriptions
- Changed All Equipment and Item: Names, Sprites, Effects and Descriptions
- Changed JP Costs and Job Requirements
- Changed how Status Effects works
- Changed Stat Growth and Stat Multiplier

And here's what I'm currently working on:

- Special Job and Monsters: Names, Skills, Stat Growth, Stat Multiplier and Descriptions
- Enemies on Random and Story Maps
- Skill Animations (this may be the only difficult thing in hacking the PSP version)
- Poacher's Den and Errands

Please let me know what you guys think. Either positive or negative.