FF6 - Brave New World

1: The 'Hero Shield' (former Cursed Shield/Paladin Shield) still gives the Condemned/Countdown status to whomever wields it, even with a Ribbon. (A Ribbon should work or outright tell me it doesn't work on Condemned.) Does this shield uncurse if different people wield it in battle, such as Terra for some fights and Locke for others?

This is quite interesting, actually, because Ribbons *do* block the Condemned status in our mod (where they didn't before). And equipping a Ribbon with, say, a Hyper Wrist will prevent the latter from taking effect, so it's not an issue with equipment conflicts. the only thing I can think of is that condemned in this case is checking instant death immunity instead of condemned immunity.

2: I feel like I've been everywhere short of Kefka's Tower (and even through most of the tower) and haven't found the Crusader magicite. It'd be the last one on the list. What hints and advice have you?

Well, if you haven't been to Kefka's Tower yet, then you haven't gotten to where you would have gotten Crusader *before*, so clearly you have wagered a guess that Crusader is no longer the reward for defeating all eight dragons.

What I'll say is that, while a few things have been shuffled around, there are no new hiding places for anything. As long as you look everywhere where there used to be something in the original game, you'll find everything in the mod.

3: Did you intend to make the girls (Terra, Celes, Relm) generally the most powerful party members? All can equip armor to completely negate Ice/Fire/Bolt damage and can spam 9999 damage spells against energy-weak foes.

The girls are the most *versatile* characters (well, Terra and Celes are, anyway), but which character is the BEST is a matter of debate. Ideally, there should be no consensus on who the best teammate is, and that seems pretty much to be the case thus far.

Terra and Celes specifically were built as team captains because they're the main characters, and so I had to make it pretty hard to go wrong with them. Relm is a badass just because overkill is sort of her thing.

(For the record, I think Terra is the best character)

4: Is Cactrot/Cactuar still around? If so, what's the best place to find and fight him?

Yeah, he's in the Figaro Desert.

5: In the Maranda Desert, I went hunting for quite some time. (Maybe 20 fights.) After that, I walked around and tried to find a random encounter. I walked around the overworld for about a minute and thought, "I rolled really well on the 'don't find random encounters' table." And no Cactrot/Cactuar. Sleeping at Maranda's inn fixed things. (I probably only needed to reenter the overworld.)

Derp. I mistakenly left a small chunk of map near Maranda no-encountered.

Will fix in the next update.

6: Another way to make Cyan better (or suck less) is to reduce the wait time of Bushido. It shouldn't take as long as Magic to go off.

All special skills have the same delay time as magic does. It's to balance them out versus a regular attack.

7: In a forest, I encountered 4 Leap Frogs. I controlled one, but wasn't able to kill it. While controlled, my spells couldn't target it and I couldn't force it to attack itself to break control. (I think it was because it had lept already.)

Yet another reason I want to get rid of Control...