Final Fantasy Hacktics

Thanks! I would have been on but the last couple of days Mibbit just keeps loading and loading forever for some reason. Needless to say my laptop is a POS but I'm not sure why that would stop working all of a sudden.

Thanks so much, everyone! I'm not a doctor but I play one on the TV in my head! :p I love to say that joke while administering any first aid. I duly plan on staying a while. When are good times to check into the chat?

P.S. I prefer armor and shields to weapons but I do love swords!

LMAO!! See- she understands me!

I'm a fan of both and I never heard that Dragonforce version before- AWESOME!! *Wildly dances around the fire in between hugs*

   

I do believe Toshiko may be on to something here......

More of a kink than a fetish, lol. Honestly its been circumstance that I find something really interesting to me that I have a question about or something and it just so happens I'm new and folks before me haven't talked about it for a while. I try to appologize when its been a while but I'm just so curious!

Hello! This is me a little under a year ago.

Oh! My manic butt thought that thread was for group pictures only and started a thread too soon! Whoops! 

After the fun of the female version of this topic I thought I'd be fair about it. That pic is a little under a year old so I'm a little fitter and my hair is buzzed off now but there I am! Nerd power!

Wow! This community is officially awesome! Brains and beauty together, ladies! At my own risk I suppose I should be fair and start a guy version.

Hello everyone! I'm ronin1984 but I answer just fine to Nick (I'm not the private, secretive type). I probably should have introduced myself before posting so much but hey- better late than never! Lets see..... I'm a divorced dad of two young sons living in Ohio and I enjoy profound talks, hugs, long walks on the beach.... oh wait, wrong site.   
On a slightly more serious note I've been working on a sequel project every day and I'd like to express gratitude for the support I've received thus far in these threads. Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to pay it forward someday.
And backing away from the seriousness once again..... I just got done reading some of the 'Roll to Dodge' thread and its been seriously cracking me up!

Anyway, greetings!

Um..... I know its been a while but I went and removed all handbag weapons from my fft project. Before that 'steel handbag' picture I rolled my eyes at the concept of bags as weapons and I was about to turn them into something else. Should I rethink that?

Yaaaay! Thank you! Now to follow Toshiko's advice again (since working on jobs has been fun) and start a really really big fire!!  I'd request a 'happy happy wildfire of love' or something but that doesn't quite sound appropriate.......

But again- yay! *hugs all who let him*

Now I know where to announce it when I need a hug!    I'm totally a hugger.



Addend: oh and as someone with severe chronic illness I can vouch that the health system in the US sucks too- but addressing that is a bit of a controversial topic in the US right now. Its kind of like bringing up religion and politics combined in the same sentence these days, lol.

Thanks! I'm not discouraged and I appreciate the warnings. I plan on creating some events to show as soon as I am able.

Wow, that link was something. First of all thank you for the advice! I will not take the point of that thread lightly.
I come to this community with experience writing books and I want to try a script instead of the usual prose. I was downright touched the first time I played through FFT and I feel it deserves a canon sequel- and by that I in no way intend to take away from any other project. I'm mostly excited by story in the case of my proposed project- sprites and all that are neat (there are some really cool ones shown at this site) but if the White Knight uses the Squire sprite but says profound lines I'm happy. If I didn't change a single thing about vanilla FFT and just produced a playable script I'm happy. Toshiko suggested I do jobs and things first and once I took her up on it I got hooked but I really want the focus to be a good sequel story ASAP. It seems you and her are suggesting opposite approaches between mechanics changes first and storytelling first. I guess I'll have to think on it.
I don't mean to bug people or beg for services such as custom sprites or free ASM hacks. I just have worked on a few tabletop games by myself and I would like to know what its like to work on a team with people for once. During the making of those tabletop games others came and went- giving up, moving on, breaking up with so-and-so, yadda yadda- and I was always the only one left by the time the stuff was playable so I can understand and sympathize with much of the frustration that I sense around here from time to time.
I'm not doing this because its fun- I'm doing this to prove to myself that I can. Granted, like I said, playing with the patcher has been a blast and I'd love to know how to bypass the hard coding of the Jump skill (I think I read someone made a tool for that) but I seek to prove myself creatively and honor a story that influenced me profoundly at the same time. I want script writing and implemenation experience. I want experience working with a team- but I will continue alone if need be. I wouldn't prefer spending 5+ years on this with the scope of it and my disappointing learning curve but as far as I'm concerned the only direction is forward. 
I will take a look at eventing and try to learn that next in between research and outlining- and by research I mean learning as much lore as I can about Ivalice and final fantasy in general.
When the first draft of the script is done should I post it or does it not matter if it can only be read but not played?

I would like to report that the project is progressing well overall but I've run into a few challenges that need ASM hacking and, apparently, that stuff is WAY over my head. I'm hoping to learn fast enough that I can get enough done fast enough that interest isn't lost on the sequel project idea. I may be starting to burn out a bit, though, since I've been working on this every day since the origional post. I just wanted to express that I am not at all giving up but I may need to rest, lol. Does anyone have any advice regarding large overhauls like this?

Well I have just read the 'beginner's guide to ASM hacking' here on this site a few times and I have to say that it is not, in fact, a beginner's guide, unfortunately. Zodiac is just going to have to consider my logical mind undeveloped because despite my best efforts most of it went 'woosh' right over my head. Now creative writing- writing is easy for me. However, I don't even know most of the terminology or acronymns used in the guide and looking at all those register numbers over and over again literally gave me a headache (I read the guide multiple times). I don't lack for motivation and I think I have a good game mechanics design in mind but this ASM stuff I do not have a talent for. Any advice?

Honestly tweaking AI is still a bit over my head but right now my best-guess suggestion is perhaps to tweak the charge time of the spells so that the weaker ones are faster and more appealing in terms of AT for the boss creature? Then, hopefully, it will fire off the weaker spells when its under pressure and only use the uber ones when it feels it can devote the time to it safely. I wish I could be more help but that might be worth a shot. Good luck.

Thank you! This has already proven to be a real learning experience. I'll get right on that. Hopefully I'll have something remotely playable before too long.

I know its been a while since anyone has posted in this thread but I just wanted to share a 'thank you' for this! It has helped very  much in my learning process so far.