FFVI: Divergent Paths

[PowerPanda]

It's not dead, just on hiatus. I was working on two other hacks to be used in this (a flag for enabling weapons for Genji Glove and a better way to handle Morph), and got burned out. I recently got the itch to go back to it, but you are all going to have to wait till I'm done with Kingdom Hearts III.

For a couple of the ideas:

Cid as a playable character: if I did this, he would replace Kappa, not Gogo. I have a 16-character full roster hack currently working. However, I've given Cid a different role. If you save him by feeding him the best fish, you can get him to join on board the Falcon. He runs an item shop that sells magic-based items, like Shadow's skeans, magicite shards, and ethers. Arvis can also be recruited, and will operate as either your weapon un-equipper/optimizer or a free "tent". Haven't decided quite how to implement him yet.

EXP in Terra's scenario. The problem is not the presence of a boss fight, it's that her scenario takes place on the Veldt, which has a flag that excludes gaining experience. My solution for this (already implemented) is to not set the Veldt flag until after the Barren Falls boss battle, and boost the experience that Rizopas gives. As long as she can get to lvl 12, it doesn't matter too much that you can't grind for levels. She just needs to be strong enough to participate in the Narshe snow-field battle, and then she leaves your party for a few hours. When she comes back, she gets a level averaging done.