SirBrickingtonCrushworthy

I've done some more testing this time, and so far my changes have been successful in what I've aimed for so far... but I'm not there just yet. The prologue at this point does what I wanted it to do, the enemies now can't completely kill Eirika in one shot, but they can do serious damage to her. The prologue and Chapter 1 are somewhat easy, Eirika can do virtually all the work if you so choose (though to be honest, in my hack, Eirika actually is pretty good), but Chapter 2 is where the change becomes noticeable. What I did is give the bandits higher HP and STR, (though I'm starting to think about changing the generic bandits from low hit rates and the ability to instantly kill most of the team to higher hit rates but slightly less damage), and the boss of the chapter is noticeably stronger. What I'm considering is that the enemies should all be given less damage and a higher hit rate, because as it stands right now I feel like the difficulty isn't 100% there yet. Chapter 3 is relatively easy, except for the boss who is ridiculously strong. Like, borderline Gomes strong for this point in the game. This is another problem which I intend to fix, because as much as I'm shooting for a difficulty up there with the likes of Thracia 776, early bosses that are beatable only by prepromotes are not what I want for the game. To make a long story short, the game, while working so far, is not quite where I want it to be. I'm going to start on the more complex aspects of hacking at this point, and it's anybody's guess as to how long it will take. To be quite frank, I'm going into (mostly) unknown territory. I'm going to try and make this as good as I possibly can, and I want everyone to keep the input coming, it's really been a big help to me so far. Oh, and by the way, L'Arachel has been the subject of some favoritism. At this point I'm not sure if anyone is surprised, but yeah, I was totally going to do it.

My bad, I wrote it all out in addition, and upon even further testing, it would appear that it's all working properly. Thanks. Okay, I've figured it out, for real this time.

I've been doing a ton of editing in Nightmare on this ROM, and now after I applied / saved my last edits, I tried testing the ROM. Most of the edits were not applied, from what it looked like. What do I need to do to fix this? I'm also doing Normal difficulty to test, if that means anything. Okay, I did another short update with Nightmare, and so far things seem to be okay, I'm going to go a bit further in to the game and see what else needs to be done. Will keep tabs on this problem, but it seems like everything's good now. EDIT: I think I figured out the problem. I forgot to apply some changes, and when I expected them to show up I didn't. To be safe, I'd like the thread to stay open as I go further into the testing, just in case... So I've actually found a problem. When I edit the levels of characters, they don't change. What's up with that?

Here's an update: After procrastinating for a while and thinking some more about everyone's suggestions, I've decided on something: I will make the bases between male and female classes slightly different, however the maxes will be the same for all classes. 80 HP will be the only universal max. For non-promotes, the caps will be 30. For promoted units, the caps will be 40. I've decided that my stat caps were arbitrary as they were, and I'd rather let growths do most of the work.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au5xN_LDInmDdFY1V0RPT212eDdXUllfQlBCMEwya1E&pli=1#gid=0 Boom. Done.

Are you sure Moulder can become a Sage? It's been a little while, so I'm not too sure... But beyond that, I think I'll give Mage Knights and Sages their staffs. Druids are still not getting Anima back. Anouleth, at some point I suppose I will put up the spreadsheet on Google Docs since it's going to be more convenient for everyone anyway. I'll get to this stuff later today. I'll also be staying up late trying to learn more about things like event hacking and whatnot, because upon initial tests it is obvious that I will need to learn more to meet my ambition. Finally, I'm going to close the disparity between male and female classes, because on second thought, it does seem kinda stupid. I'm not sure if I will make them entirely the same, or create minor differences, however I'm leaning towards minor differences.

I can't remove staffs from Female Mage Knights because of the Troubador class, and part of what I did was try to make the female classes different from the male ones.

This hack seems interesting enough, I suppose I'll pay some attention to it. One question, did the song by The Clash 'Death or Glory' have anything to do with you naming your hack as such?

Well, I've been working on an FE8 hack since yesterday. I'm trying to make the game more difficult, hopefully about on par with Thracia, give or take a little bit of difficulty. I just finished altering character classes, and I'd like some of your feedback. I will list out the changes to classes not shown on the chart: (Please note that the chart itself was made in Open Office, so you might need to import it to Google Docs if you can't open the .ods file format) Brickington's Changes ---------------------------------- *Ephraim and Eirika start off with a C weapon rank in their respective weapon types *Swordmasters automatically get an S in swords on promotion *Required promotion level is now 20 *Male sages can no longer use staffs *Druids can no longer use Anima *Male Mage Knights no longer use staffs *Valkyrie gets a B in light magic and a B in staffs on promotion (an apology for no Slayer) *Summoners can no longer use staffs *Falcoknights get a C in swords *After the initial charts, Great Knights now have their move increased to 7 *Virtually ALL foot units (excluding armor knights) now have a move of 6. ------------------------------------- Here's what I have gotten done so far: *Classes rebalanced *Certain characters changed (I'm going to change all of the characters around at some point) --------------------------------- Okay, here's a relevant update: I've come to the sad realization that my decision to start a hack based on a whim will not be as easy as I first thought it was. Needless to say, it's pretty stupid of me. I have the intention to learn more about hacking, and I hope to release this within the month, assuming I put in the same kind of time I have been thus far.

L'Arachel = Larchel. I don't know how I would've pronounced that.

Just thought it might be funnier if I put up the other picture for comparison.

Care to use the img tags if you can? I'm a huge fan of this picture.

To describe it, the whole idea behind this thread is for people to post pictures depicting characters from another universe using the style of another universe, or, something else like zombification, literalism, or dramatized pictures. I will dump more later, for now I want to give people a chance to post anything they may have.

What's all this take over L'Arachel? Get away from my waifu! *Draws Sword* What is the only defense to a Hungarian Epee?

Ronan has all the bells and whistles of a good unit and is fun to play with when you first get him, but he is simply bizarre. He has a high move growth, a high magic growth, and 3 Movement stars. He also starts out with 7 move. The problem is by the time he maxes out magic, his Strength is roughly 11. That is at promoted level 17, if memory serves. 3.14159265 (and so on and so forth) / 10 for being the weirdest unit in FE history. To go off topic here, I can't understand why people don't like Tanya. She's been great for me.

I'm a cold weather person. For me, hot is 60.

I claim Sakura from Street Fighter. I also still have claim on L'Arachel, don't expect me to give that up anytime soon.

At first I thought you were quoting this song: But then I realized this was not the case. I am disappointed.

Well you know what they say, the customer is always right....

You play? Wanna do a few rounds with me?

Priscilla: You wear it like a badge of honor. Gheb, how does a fat man like you get to be a Warrior?

Stop this legislation in America! You know, I generally have a respect for business, but when it comes to companies like Activision and the RIAA in general, I do not care one ounce for them. What's funny is that most bands don't care when you pirate their stuff, because they're not the ones getting screwed as badly as the record industry.