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Allan's Aokage

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  1. There is a god. And his name be Awesome, the Almighty!

    ...my apologies x) I am looking forward to this hack (as it might give me a reason to *gasp* fire up Sacred Stones again) and wish you well in what you do with it. Even if I am a nitpicker who's very good at picking nits.

    ...and the new screens are pretty damn nifty, too =O

  2. The Dawn Brigade chapters are just scarce of enemies; if you end up with any weak units come Part 4, I'd recommend putting them in Tibarn's team - you get boatloads of EXP from fighting the Feral Ones, especially whomever gets Beastfoe/Birdfoe/one of the Paragons.

    I'd prefer some trimming down of the cast (if needed) to allow for support conversations, even if it's only A-supports. The closest thing you get is the Spirit Dust conversation in 3-E between Boyd and Mist :V

  3. Who, me?

    I'm not very stupid, Mia definitely owns Aran, if only because she has better availability, chapters and stats all-around. Sure, she's swordlocked, but who cares when that means you get Alondite or the Vague Katti?

    I just recall Aran > Mia popping up earlier in the thread and I assumed this was a side track of that.

    On a different note: @Red Fox of Fire; good madam, have you considered making a second topic for this? As this has reaches 201 pages, it seems to have gotten a tad unwieldy, and I have no doubt that duplicate arguments are going to start appearing because this is hardly searchable. Sorry for the trouble ^^;;

  4. Top o' this board, buddy.

    ...well, that's embarrassing ^^;

    In any case, here are my arguments regarding Aran's performance in 1-4;

    Firstly, the Tigers - the weakest one has the following stats:

    1x Tiger lvl 4

    HP 39, Atk 24, AS 10, Hit 120, Avo 26, DEF 10, RES 2, Crit 6, Ddg 1

    Aran w/o any levels or supports (Iron Lance);

    HP 24, Atk 17, AS 10, Hit 115, Avo 26, Def 11, Ddg 6

    Edward at Level 7 w/o supports (Iron Sword);

    HP 22, Atk 15, AS 14, Hit 126, Avo 38, Def 6, Ddg 10

    Squabble all you want, but against the weakest Tiger, there's no way in hell that Aran is doubling without 4 levels of Speed ups. Both he and the Tiger aren't going to dodge each other's attacks, so Aran just has to eat a Herb every turn to avoid being killed by one of them. he has a tiny 6% displayed chance of dodging, and barely misses out on the possibility of taking a crit. He'll have 11HP left after the Tiger attacks him, and he'll do 7 damage in return. Not bad.

    Edward, on the other hand, will double the weakest tiger (barely), has a 12% displayed chance of dodging the tiger, and does 5 damage twice; that's ten damage in all, not counting the fact that Wrath will be active if he doesn't dodge. Of course, it's actually a bad thing that this happens, so your mileage may vary on this point. He takes 18 damage from the tiger, leaving him with 4HP. Ouch.

    Of course, both of them suck on this chapter. The optimal way to do it would be to have Edward sitting in front of one of the gates with Laura healing him every turn (or Edward using a Vulenary), with Aran contributing chip damage with his Javelin. When the tiger reaches low HP (assuming no crits or levels up, this will happen in the third turn), so Edward (or Aran) can finish the Tiger off and move on to another enemy. Assuming it stays still, of course.

    But as mentioned, they suck in this chapter. There's no real difference between them and it's irrelevant to Aran vs Mia. Aran can gain some levels by using his Javelin, or taking some damage from the cats. I'd estimate 1-2 levels, being unfavourable.

    -note- I didn't give Edward a support as to make it "fair" to Smash; he's probably above level 7, too. But Edward has a pretty damn good chance of getting a Nolan support, or maybe something from Edward. In addition, this is a "equal" comparison of the two, ignoring the fact that Edward is technically handicapped at this point. And this assumes no stat boosters are used on either of them. I could easily give a Dracoshield to Edward to make him less of a walking target.

  5. yeah the Raven teaming with the Hawks wouldn't work since king Raven stabbed the lot of them in the back.

    There's that but it can be explained away by Nealuchi not agreeing with Naesala or some such. But if a raven started fighting for the Laguz Alliance, Lekain would wipe them out. Plus, Ashera would have been awoken quicker if there'd been a raven truly in the conflict.

  6. No, sorry bro, the idea is the same.

    - Mia gets BEXP in ch 8 cause no one else needs it, because apparently their improvement in performance doesn't matter.

    - Aran gets BEXP in ch 8 cause no one else needs it, because apparently their improvement in performance doesn't matter.

    Now. I, for one, want Aran to move up in the list. But I have no idea where I can find the HM (or NM, whichever) enemy stats so I can prove it; hence why I'm normally lurking in this topic. I just hope that you don't make it impossible to move it up with these arguments.

    But this argument is... awful. Let's compare;

    Path of Radiance's system works as follows; you can give BEXP to any unit in any quantity, and all level ups are treated as a normal level up (in Random Mode, anyway). Radiant Dawn's system is quite different; again, you can give BEXP to any unit in any quantity, but if you level up, you get three stats guaranteed. Now, my three-year-old cousin (who is... dim, to say the least) could tell me that those are not the same. Heck, my three-year-old cousin worked out a good system for BEXP (only use it when you've reached a few caps in your stats to ensure you get higher stats all around) at the same time.

    In Path of Radiance, Mia greatly benefits from having BEXP, as it gives her superior functionality in the following chapter; please go to the PoR Tier List for more info on this - it makes her pretty damn useful, as she can suddenly wipe out Armour Knights without breaking a sweat.

    In Radiant Dawn, it's a different story. Aran will cap Skill and Defence by Level 20 naturally (according to Average Stats), with Strength being a presumed cap because it's a .25 chance of not doing so. One level of BEXP or two will have him cap Strength. This makes him pretty good in 3-13 (at least in Normal Mode, not 100% sure on Hard Mode since I haven't seen the stats). But this is irrelevant.

    In the map being debated at the moment, there is no reason to give him BEXP. Sure, he deserves it, but it's a bad idea to give it to him at this moment in time. He joins at Lv 7, so he's roughly on par with the rest of the Dawn Brigade (?). Whether you give him BEXP or not, Edward is still going to handle the Tigers and Cats better. Aran has a Javelin anyway; although I've not seen the stats (if someone could provide me with a directory or something with them in, I'll make a superior argument about this matter) - he could just cower behind Sothe/Nolan/whoever and throw them at them, which gives him CEXP anyway.

    My apologies for rambling on, my dear fellows. I apologise for my rudeness and I humbly request access to information regarding the enemies in this level, if this is acceptable :) I don't know where to start looking, otherwise I would attempt to back up my facts.

    -edit-

    My apologies, but I am thinking that Oscar could afford to move down a spot or two; as I recall, despite his 9 Move outside of buildings, he's hilariously fragile if he isn't following directly behind his support partner. Although, I suppose you could have him support Titania and have them crush anything, I guess.

    *is hardly an expert in such matters, of course*

  7. Exion should wear nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!

    *ahem*

    My apologies for giving criticism, but I believe that the main problem with some of these sprites is that you do not take into account the shape of the head itself; for example, Alex can't have the hair style he does without having a serious skull deformation. I would recommend deleting his hair, then drawing the outline of a skull in with the Pencil tool. If you then apply the hair, you'll notice that in points, the hair would dig into his brain. Ouch ^^;

    Going down the list, I have noticed a handful of other things (I apologise for the mass criticism, I really like your work. But I am not an expert on such works, so I'd recommend looking at some tutorials or asking one or two more advanced spriters than I. I fail at making splices for heaven's sake ^^;;):

    Spoilered because it's kinda mean and not particularly constructive.

    -On the older Ariana, her eyes seem to be made from the uncanny valley. Her left eye looks like it's too small, I think.

    -Azrael's neck seems off, I think. And he looks a little bit insane XD

    -Altair's head seems to be suffering from the problem mentioned in the first paragraph.

    -Dana's collar lacks shading, you may wish to change this.

    -Dave's head has the problem mentioned in the first paragraph.

    -Dream's hair seems to irregularly jut out from her hood. Try making her hair flatter (by shading it?), or change the hood a bit. *shrug*

    -I think Howard needs some harder colours in his face, since it looks a bit too smooth at the moment ^^;

    -Janik has a patch of unshaded neck, next to his hand.

    -Both Kevin's have problems like Alex, plus Kevin I doesn't seem to be shaded.

    -Laurence's head seems to be unaligned with his neck. Perhaps you could bring his head back a bit, then put the collar over his face somehwat?

    -Michael has the same problem as Alex.

    -Nigel's lower-right portrait seems to have something wrong with it. I assume it's a sleeve of some sort?

    -Raphael looks kinda sickly XD; I assume it's intentional?

    -Rohan seems to be a jack-in-the-box; his head comes out of armour too much. Try bringing his head back.

    -Sephiroth's forehead seems to be a little too large for his face.

    -Siegfried's initial portrait seems to have some problems with his fringe.

    -Siegfried the Elder has something up the centre of his forehead.

    -Brannimond's forehead seems to have some shading problems; in addition, the right-side of his hair seems to be a little... off. Perhaps you could add some more... uh, messiness(?) to it.

    -Mark has the same problems as Sephiroth.

    -Zihark's outline seems a little too dark, I would recommend adding some more shades to the outline ^^; -

    My apologies for the undue criticism; it was unbecoming of me and I give you my most sincere apologies if you have taken any offence to it.

    Incidentally, Roland looks awesome and Exion is my favourite character, regardless of what his character is actually like. He doesn't need pants, either. *nuked from orbit*

  8. As mentioned before, I am willing to work on any scripts that you require to be edited. With minimal errors, with any luck ^^;; In addition, I spy that the Radiant Dawn script section lacks any files regarding Base/Info conversations.

    As I have (nearly) every single one of them on my Radiant Dawn file, I am willing to transcribe them (without a text dump, of course) and send them to you. I think the small amount of ones I don't have can be gained by killing off Gareth for eating red meat some of the dragons to find the missing ones.

    -edit-

    And I can also get all of the Village ones (maybe not the Talk ones, though) during my next RD playthrough, which will be done right after the one I'm doing now. Including the alternate 3-1 village. Of course, I might miss a few due to not fielding certain units regularly.

  9. So yeah; who do you believe the BEXP in Path of Radiance should go to, throughout the game?

    I have no doubt that Mia should get some Chapter 8 BEXP, along with possibly Soren, Boyd and Oscar getting a level or so with it as well. In Chapter 9, I occasionally give Ilyana a level or two, but still keep up the vigorous pace of levelling anyone who needs it to ensure they hit 20/1 as soon as possible. But I'm hardly interesting in that manner, I guess ^^;

    So, does anyone else have anything to say about how BEXP is distributed in this game~?

  10. @FireBlazer; I'm pretty sure you can submit synopsis' and the like. Or was that shut down during my absence?

    I do believe VincentASM shut down his sprites section. In addition, growth rates for non-standard classes seems.. pointless. I mean, it's just Base growths/statss + Class growths/stats.

    And scripts are being worked on, I believe.

  11. ... how is Aran unpromoted? He should be promoted by 1-E, at the latest? O_o

    Depending on how close Aran is to capping stats, feed him a bit of BEXP until he caps Str/Def/Skl, then Master Seal him if you have one. You should be fine from there on in, as long as you have Beastfoe and Paragon.

    ...you do have those, right? =|

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