FFVI Worlds Collide

[C-Dude]

I want to thank everyone for trying out this mod and their feedback! Today has literally been overwhelming. I was not expecting so much interest and I am very happy people are enjoying themselves.

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I would also like to address a couple other issues/questions I have heard from various places:
There is currently an issue with vargas/ultros in esper mountain where sabin/relm will be in the party for the battle but not actually be recruited if you have 3 or fewer party members which makes these battles trivial. This was an oversight on my end. I originally discovered an issue with sabin and relm not appearing in these battles when they were in your party. The character AI data has a bit to hide them (as well as x/y positions) which were applied regardless of whether they are recruited. Clearing this hide bit to restore the characters in the party will probably need to be reverted. I am still unsure of how to best fix this issue because there are no conditionals available in the ai data and may have to investigate the battle assembly for a permanent solution. In the meantime, a better alternative to the current situation may be to restore the original hide bits and have the characters appear halfway through the battle whether recruited or not. For now, enjoy the easy victories.

Additionally, the auction house does not necessarily have two espers. There are two slots for rewards which can each either be an esper or a "good" item. When "good" items are the reward it can be a challenge to distinguish them from the other randomized items. I hesitate to always make the rewards 2 espers since the time to acquire them might be too skewed compared to other events and might end up a necessity in competitions. For now, when you have the "Randomize Items" option selected I recommend using the WOR auction house which does not have the repeating Cherub Down item and you can more clearly figure out what the rewards are without resorting to the log. In the future, one idea presented that I like was to have an option to always make the espers/"good" items the first two things auctioned so the player can clearly know what the rewards are.

It is very late so I will have to continue addressing these issues tomorrow.
Thank you.

You could remove the event calls from the Vargas and Ultros (SketchTutorial) fight scripts.  Ultros is a perfectly viable and challenging boss without Relm to finish the fight, and Vargas's HP can be adjusted down to make the Blitz tutorial unnecessary.  This would also help advance your future goal of shuffling boss positions.

For the 'rare thing costs 2 GP' problem, you could assign a GP value based on what you think the thing should be worth.  Relics tend to be worth between 3k and 20k gold.  You could go up to 40k for rare weapons/armor.  Ethers could be worth 5x a Tincture and Dry Ethers 5x that; x5 again for Elixirs and Megalixers.  I know this isn't vanilla but I'm sure your players would understand you assigning a value you feel is appropriate for these items.


As for the auction house, maybe it should be espers/characters instead of espers/items?  You could tweak the 'robot imp' event you removed to make it the purchase of a party member (of course clipping the bit where the little rich kid forces the millionaire to buy them).
"Next on our auction, it's ROBOT CYAN!".  It'd be funny and make it clear that the limited event has triggered.