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Thanks a lot

Another question. Can magic attack up improve the percentage of MA abilities such as steal heart? If not, can ou explain what it increases.

Does it count if someone bought it for me?

- Chantelise

....I don't really have a lot of free money for games... >_>

Yes. And Chantilelise isn't very good. The other games in the series are said to be however.

I kind of half-assed my team. I wouldn't have done it if my little bro hadn't pushed me. I aimed at long range crossbow and bow units. I just um, like that. But I fully expect to go down hard.

So we will only have Arena tournaments, not 1.3?

Is it possible to play fft1.3 on iPod touch? And how would I be able to do it?

Firefox 9.0.1

I used to use Chromium for a bit.  It is faster than FF.  But, I really can't stand how stripped down the UI for Chrome is.  No simple bookmark button?  That's so stupid.  I also hate the how download bars pops up at the bottom of Chrome. 

Also, if Chrome will soon overtake Firefox in terms of overall usage.  We should rally behind FF as much as we can because it is the Free Open Source web browser not supported by a major corporation. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

I don't think our community will go anywhere if we keep trying to modify a 14 year old video game.  Compare Tactics Ogre (snes) to FFT.  Notice how in FFT the maps are much smaller, have fewer units and allow only 5 units for your team?  All technical limitations because of the Playstation.  Even if we completely master the engine, we still have the same limitations that the FFT designers had back in 1997.   

We need to break out of that.  Make our own game engine.  That would remove all the technical limitations, and even allow for us to expand them.  Imagine a large map with, say 64 units for instance.  And before you complain, yes that would mean that the battle system would not be identical to FFT, which is not a big deal.  From my previous thread someone posted:

Advantages of homebrew over hacking:
1) No copyright/DRM issues if done correctly
2) You can use advanced coding languages and translate into MIPS
3) You don't have to worry about hard-coded mechanics or inscrutable code (since you're the one writing it)
4) ROM size problems can be ignored.  If we're making a PC port, even RAM size is irrelevant since most modern PCs and laptops have far more usable RAM than the PSX/PSP (and it's highly unlikely we'll even use that much since we're probably not coding a 3D graphics/physics engine).

I'd call it "indie', not homebrew though. 

However, this requires us build EVERYTHING from scratch.  Also, a good number of us are actually more proficient in ASM than in C++.  In short, we will have to throw away everything FFT did right just to either jump through a legal hoop or to ensure total "freedom" to create a game.

This is all worth it in my opinion.  It's obvious that Squeenix has no intention of making a real FFT sequel.  If we pooled our resources I think we could make a top down, sprite based SRPG in the style of FFT/Tactics Ogre.  Keep it simple for the time being.  Perhaps some later project could "take it to the next level" of sorts.  I for one will begin to take my own advice and will read up on coding languages. 

Also, Havermayer, as a representative of both Christianity and 19th century Liberalism (falsely called conservatism today), I can say he is a complete moron and jerk face. He's turning off everybody equally... I hope. Otherwise the other people are a lost cause and are blind.

The far right vote liked that though.  There's strong, strong opposition to gays/lesbians in that base. 

The sad part is that nobody's shocked that he said this. It's a total career killer and he doesn't even think he did anything wrong.

Career killer?  Not really.  This is a calculated move to appeal to evangelical Christians and the religious right.  However, it means that he'll turn off independent voters even more, meaning that he probably can't win a general election.