Final Fantasy Hacktics

Quote from: TrueLight on December 25, 2014, 09:04:08 pm
FFT Arena 1.39C - RedWorld (Is This the Real Life?) vs. Shintroy (Buff PA)

Great job redworld and welcome back.

Quote from: Shintroy on December 20, 2014, 03:12:08 am

spoiler: Dokurider vs Reinoe

MA Mime team vs Melee SP boosting mime team.
Bet on MA. I didn't think the melee units would reach Dokurider's team on half of the large maps.

Round 1 - Starts off as expected. The teams collide when Reinoe's team is already battered down to half health. Things got too ugly from then on.

Round 2 - A better map for Reinoe. Still didn't get any thing out if cheer song here though sadly. I don't remember whether or not Reinoe got to attack this round. All I remember is his team stuck on defense.

GG it was a classic match up of mage vs warrior and I can always appreciate those. Too bad there probably will never be a range based mime team. I'd like to see thst vs a mage or pa mime team.

Will a ninja as follows perform Kagesougi?

H Bag
H Bag
Thief Hat
Black Costume
Battle Boots

?????

Quote from: Shintroy on December 18, 2014, 03:20:40 pm
Can a berserk mime mimic?
If you're using fists and you're using an ability with a PA x WP formula does the damage equal zero? Wondering what would happen if a barefisted mime had kagesougi.

Yeah, any ability that has "WP" in the formula will deal 0 damage.  That's why it's awful if you have Hawk's Eye and someone breaks the weapon (it'll still inflict poison and oil though).

I just realized that The draw out ability "Asura" is based off PA and not MA.  I was wondering why the monks kept doing so much damage and I could not figure it out...

Quote from: Shintroy on December 14, 2014, 12:07:12 pm
Why not just make quickening cost more MP and have a cast time instead of outright removing it?

As it is right now it costs 300 JP to learn, costs 15 MP to use, and gives 1 whole speed point. On top of all that its an instant cast spell which isn't fair in comparison to Cheer Song/Dance's 10(?) CT.

I haven't been around long enough to hate the ability as much as you guys but I'm aware of how it can break the balance of game or at least a battle. From the little I've seen in comparison, couldn't quickening also be balanced by giving it a cast time? Aside from the start of a round when buffs are universally used, giving Quickening a cast time will somewhat prevent units from at least getting it off in no win situations like being targed by a raise 2 with no ways to interrupt, reviving by phoenix down, Reraise, or cursed ring while poisoned and having no self heal. It would also stop a lot of stall situations from getting ridiculous like the recent 20+ speed hasted thief almost soloing an entire team due to having regen and double and triple turning.

The reason why cast time doesn't work is because the A.I. will "charge" and then move.  It's the same with ReRaise.  The A.I. thinks it's instant and so will charge and move.  Once it moves, when quickening goes off it will go off on the wrong panel because the A.I. has moved.  As horribly annoying as Quickening is...I really am starting to think that changing it's interaction with Flash Hat+Cursed ring seems to have neutralized it.  It's a nice little quirk but you can't just slap on Quickening+Flash Hat+Cursed Ring and call it a day anymore.  Charge time is a no, but increasing it's MP costs might just do the trick although I don't think Quickening is a problem like it used to be.

Quote from: Shintroy on December 13, 2014, 10:08:53 pm
Mime loses it's weapon when other units melee attack. If you did forget to give your squires southern or/and grand cross then it was bound to happen. I'm interested to know if the squires did actually have grand cross and still opted not to use it due to recoil damage to the mime.

Also throughout the match the mime was randomly discarding Asura Knife.

Quote from: CT5Holy on November 10, 2014, 02:58:58 am
FFT Arena 139c - reinoe (Seven Samurai) vs Leif1991 (Continents)

Mimes copy lore.  Shoulda rebuilt my short circuit team first.

And there's my bad habit of allowing my Item user to act after my attacking units.  When will I learn?

Yeah, I'm also having some difficulty gaining traction.  It's the "Stops" that are literally killing me although a few too many undead units aren't helping either.

Quote from: silentkaster on October 26, 2014, 04:21:16 pm
My suggestion was to make it Always: Poison with nothing able to reverse it (of course with Immune: Regen). To make the PB use immune to poison would be wayyy broken.

Another legitimate complaint is that it extended matches beyond reason.  We all enjoy the videos put up but I'm sure recording a match with a Phoenix Blade user was an eye rolling experience.  While game mechanics should comprise of 90% of what is or isn't balanced, I think taking into account the time strain put on recorders was something taken into account.  Granted that's something FFMaster can speak on, but I wouldn't be surprised if recorder strain was a factor.

Quote from: Andante49 on October 24, 2014, 06:08:52 pm
Should be everything for 1.39c. The yellow boxes for the abilities are Input Messages through Data Validation.

Came up with a very crude solution to get Tsumazuku and Houkouton to forecast correctly that shouldn't interfere with anything else.

Fantastic work!!!!  I tried doing simple updates and couldn't get them to work.  I uh...immediately noticed that Mime's haven't been allocated their 3k jp.  Although a temporary fix is to just calculate up to -3k.

Black Hood isn't allocating 30 MP.

Can we have three Mimes on a team since, due to equipment etc, the units can all be different?

barren's about to post a video!!