Final Fantasy Hacktics

I used shishi sprite editor, it asked me to restructure, I did. I replaced the "ovelia" sprite with one of the customs I found on here. When I start a new game, the orbonne prayer still has the vanilla ovelia. It was my understanding shishi updated your image automatically. was there a step I missed?

You need to make sure the Entd entry for the event matches the sprite you changed.  Also, some events use special EVTCHR.  Not 100% sure if that event does, but probably.

One question about ENTD, I have specified that ramza start out with specified gear, just to test them to make sure they function correctly as formulas and status effects and stuff were changed.
the default was "random" but no matter what i do ramza always starts out with the same gear.
Im not sure what to do about that?

ch1 beginning of the game Ramza has his equipment set via something other than the ENTD, but there is a spreadsheet that allows you to modify it if you wish (somewhere).

Ch2 Ramza in the Prologue of the game make sure you are editing the battle ENTD and not the event in the church beforehand.

Ill have to investigate that after work. But I remember that ENTD I had changed had 3 or 4 enemies listed, so I figured that was the battle outside the church.

The very first event actually contains data for like... 4 enemies? They never appear in the event itself but the data is there. Make sure that the ENTD has all of Alicia / Lavian / Rad / Gaffy / Agrias / Ramza etc, and not Ovelia / Simon.

I'd give you the number but I can't access my files right now Q.Q

That is very helpful. I will know what to look for after wirk. Thanks! After that ive got to figure out the deal with evtchrs and custom sprites.