Mini-Contest Idea

Ok, it's time for the feedback:
This time i must split my judge in 2 parts...
- The idea, the variety of the requirements to accomplish the task and the strategy related are really good ;

- On the other hand it has a significant downside: the result of the task heavily revolves around the random factor of the whole run... too much.

It may be a nice idea to give a chance to less skilled player to score an higher result and be more near to the others, but there's a problem: i realized that random in FF6 doesn't exist... i explain myself better:

Due to many previous tests(not related to this task, much more weeks ago), i concluded that there are events that repeat themselves exactly in the same manner, no matter what... in the battle if you steal(for example) exactly at second 2 and istant 230 and steal the rare item, then you'll obtain the same result if you steal again at second 2 and istant 230... but that's so hard to repeat, without savestates, that it's not much a problem;

Random battles are completely different: after you load a file save and then do a savestate right after, it's proved at 100% that all the random battles you'll fight from that point, are already decided... kinda like it acts in the same way of the destiny

You can load and repeat that endlessly... it will never change.
When i realized that i could just "Search" for the perfect combination
(3 ing -> mecha/GP toss battle -> 1 monster to one shot with suplex) and win the task with 3 battles, then i decided to stop to improve my run: it wasn't a challenge anymore, just a cold algorythm to find the best combination.

That exploit creates an huge advantage for who knows that and makes rise the gap between the ones that ignore it's existance.
As you can notice, Edrin and Jackimus fought some useless random battles, while the mine were calculated, not much wonderful...


So i'll give you an advice: avoid, no matter what, to make the "random" factor one of the main parameters of a task(especially the Veldt!!), luck should be a little variable that may help to score a better result, not the main route, aren't you agree?


PS. about task #3, the task ends as soon as you receive the offering, right?