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Oxygen Deficiency posted:Would it be against the rules to make a save file just before heading into the canal to speed things up? I imagine most people will be doing this. The only real downside is that you won't be able to give Bartz a new silly name on every run.
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I thought of a fun game. Play along, thread!   I'll buy a forums upgrade (or, if the winner so chooses, donate  to Child's Play) for whoever guesses the winning time for this year's Run, under the following rules:- We're operating under reversed Price Is Right rules, so the winning guess will be the closest without going under; - Guesses to be made before The Run starts; - Multiple guesses allowed; - Each guess costs $1, to be paid towards the Zerk Fund (i.e.: donating to Child's Play in the name of the FJF). I'm not going to ask for proof, I'm calling honour code on this one: I know goons will be goons, but I hope none of you will stiff a charity.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:52
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What is the absolute worst party you could get and still pull a Triple Crown?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What is the absolute worst party you could get and still pull a Triple Crown? The worst Triple Crown run I did was the one where I couldn't stunlock Omega and relied on Red Mage Thundara for damage [just looked it up, Sam Nin Sam Rdm] . Trident jump is up there as well. A Bard with the rest of the party being pulled from Bard, Thief, Geo would be technically guaranteed but such a pain in the rear end. derra fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Define worst. I had a team of Geomancer/Geomancer/Red Mage/Time Mage last year. It was a completely horrid team saved only by the Time Mage. I quickleaked both Omega and Shinryu, but I wasn't proud of it.
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Yeah, even if a class is bad for TC you'd still have to consider the value they have on the rest of the run, say even though a Berserker will take you to Omega Counter Hell they've probably been pretty useful over the run overall. Based on that I'm gonna say it's probably GEO/GEO/GEO/TIM.
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I would posit that the Bard/Bard/Bard/Time Mage I did to a triple crown was probably worse than the proposed Geo/Geo/Geo/Time.
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Jun 7, 2017 07:01
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ber/zer/ker/time
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So since it looks like my job choices are probably going to stand even after basically flushing 80% of the votes down the shitter. I'm going to try to think of a bonus incentive I can throw at the run. Any ideas? I was thinking bonus donation for each boss killed by bearaga, but that might be overly tedious (that or bankrupt me if I'm not careful...)
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Jun 7, 2017 07:44
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Samuel Clemens posted:The only real downside is that you won't be able to give Bartz a new silly name on every run. I'm perfectly okay with every run as the hero FARTZ and his friends. I also like having 99 potions without having to grind them every time. Bruceski posted:
I see no problems here whatsoever.
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InfernoBlade posted:So since it looks like my job choices are probably going to stand even after basically flushing 80% of the votes down the shitter. I'm going to try to think of a bonus incentive I can throw at the run. Any ideas? I was thinking bonus donation for each boss killed by bearaga, but that might be overly tedious (that or bankrupt me if I'm not careful...) Bonus for killing NeD with a Goblin (punch) in memoriam DDarch
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dis astranagant posted:ber/zer/ker/time Can you even quickleak the sand worm though.
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Jun 7, 2017 15:37
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Can't have Quick so it doesn't matter 
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Jun 7, 2017 15:40
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I did two regular runs last time. This year, I'm mixing it up! I don't know what any of this is going to do, but let's fuckin' do this poo poo!
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Asked before, but what the best translation these days for the SNES release? I know the RPGe one is the original one that been around for about twenty years, but I saw a patch last year that suppose to update it, probably getting the names to match the GBA translation. Honestly wish someone just backport the GBA translation to the SNES version instead but that probably not happening.
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I updated my run, it was random but now I've added BERSERKERRISK to it. I'm definitely going to regret this.
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Mikl posted:I updated my run, it was random but now I've added BERSERKERRISK to it. I'm definitely going to regret this.  Berserker's are perfectly fine when you've only got one or maybe two of them. Worst case, you have to KO it for a battle so you can learn blue magic or catch a monster or something. It's having 4 of them/having only them available that's the big problem.
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Rirse posted:Asked before, but what the best translation these days for the SNES release? I know the RPGe one is the original one that been around for about twenty years, but I saw a patch last year that suppose to update it, probably getting the names to match the GBA translation. The overhaul didn't even do that much, actually. It's basically indistinguishable from the RPGe translation aside from a few minor cleanups. As for backporting the GBA translation, that's likely not going to happen. There's the technical barriers, for one. FFV's text is all stored uncompressed. Meaning, one character is one byte. The GBA translation is a lot more wordy and thus would require more space. That alone isn't an insurmountable problem: modern emulators can handle SNES roms of quite large size. However, you'd have to move text into that new space and then repoint everything. Again, that's not impossible, nor does it require any special romhacking skills. A knowledge of how to use a hex editor and how SNES pointers (and pointers in general) work would be all that's required. No, the trouble would be the tedium. You'd have to check every single line of dialogue and every single incidental monster attack to be sure you didn't mess up a pointer location or forget an EOL character and cause everything to break. That's not only a long process, but it's a boring long process. The bigger barrier is the ethical one. Note, I don't say legal: romhacking is a legal gray area as it is and I'm not qualified to comment on it. So, we're talking an ethical issue. That is, there are a few unspoken rules about romhacks. One of them is only distributing original work, and not any of the original creator's. Somewhere between RPGe deciding to use "Blow Fish" for 1000 Needles (for recognizability because that's what the most recent mainline game did) and taking the entire rewritten English script of FFV and handing out your own derivation of it there's a line you're crossing, and it's not a line that ought to be crossed. If people want the GBA translation, then they should go play that one (or dump the script and insert it themselves). Not everyone will necessarily agree on the finer points of this last note, but the general principle holds: make your own hack, don't just copy someone else's work.
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 I am ready. Leofish posted:I did two regular runs last time. This year, I'm mixing it up! 
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Chaos Fifth Risk, penta zerkers here I come!
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Just as a note for current numbers: we are at 726 'zerkers in the tree, and 490 riskers. Which means that unless things change, every risker will have at least 1 guaranteed, and most will have 2 guaranteed.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:26
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That also doesn't consider the number of Normal Riskers, who can't get two or more berserkers and effectively reduce the numbers by 1 each, increasing density for non-normal riskers.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:30
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Can you change your pre-reg by re-tweeting giglabot?
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InfernoBlade posted:So since it looks like my job choices are probably going to stand even after basically flushing 80% of the votes down the shitter. I'm going to try to think of a bonus incentive I can throw at the run. Any ideas? I was thinking bonus donation for each boss killed by bearaga, but that might be overly tedious (that or bankrupt me if I'm not careful...) Let me just make a polite request here to please not add any incentives to the run that would actually extend its playtime. The bearaga thing would essentially mean that the 'winner' would be whoever doesn't do that extra task, which of course means everyone would do it in every possible case because nobody wants to be the guy who dicked over a charity to win. But honestly the run takes long enough as it is and the fiesta doesn't start until it's over, so making it any longer isn't really fun for anyone.
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Yep, at any time until the Fiesta proper starts.
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Ali Aces posted:Let me just make a polite request here to please not add any incentives to the run that would actually extend its playtime. The bearaga thing would essentially mean that the 'winner' would be whoever doesn't do that extra task, which of course means everyone would do it in every possible case because nobody wants to be the guy who dicked over a charity to win. But honestly the run takes long enough as it is and the fiesta doesn't start until it's over, so making it any longer isn't really fun for anyone. If this was your goal you should've spoken up before the five thousand dollar donation that mandated 4 tablets
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Trasson posted:The overhaul didn't even do that much, actually. It's basically indistinguishable from the RPGe translation aside from a few minor cleanups. That true. I imagine if it anyone made one, it would be like the hack for FF6 GBA where they combined the GBA script with elements of the old SNES script.
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oldskool posted:If this was your goal you should've spoken up before the five thousand dollar donation that mandated 4 tablets  Without a white mage, gently caress that.Khisanth Magus posted:Just as a note for current numbers: we are at 726 'zerkers in the tree, and 490 riskers. Which means that unless things change, every risker will have at least 1 guaranteed, and most will have 2 guaranteed. Welp, see ya at SandWormFort 
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oldskool posted:If this was your goal you should've spoken up before the five thousand dollar donation that mandated 4 tablets Watching them figure out how to handle rugwizard can be interesting, but honestly, yeah I would rather that not be a mandate, or maybe have a $10k mark that says they don't have to do that anymore. But that's not my decision.
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I'm fine adding another hour or two to the run if it means more money for charity. Plus half the time RK doesn't start things on time anyway.
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Mega64 posted:I'm fine adding another hour or two to the run if it means more money for charity. So am I. Fortunately that's not actually the choice. I'm only saying that if someone's coming up with inventive incentives for donation, they ideally should look for things that don't make it more of a slog than it already is. How bout this: Keep zerky alive. Donate some amount for every boss battle won without the berzerker ever dying, or starting off dead or incapacitated. Double it for wormboss. zzMisc fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Kyrosiris posted:That also doesn't consider the number of Normal Riskers, who can't get two or more berserkers and effectively reduce the numbers by 1 each, increasing density for non-normal riskers. Let's hope this means 2017 will bring us another chosen one 
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Trasson posted:Somewhere between RPGe deciding to use "Blow Fish" for 1000 Needles (for recognizability because that's what the most recent mainline game did) and taking the entire rewritten English script of FFV and handing out your own derivation of it there's a line you're crossing, and it's not a line that ought to be crossed. If people want the GBA translation, then they should go play that one (or dump the script and insert it themselves). Not everyone will necessarily agree on the finer points of this last note, but the general principle holds: make your own hack, don't just copy someone else's work. I mean, there's a hack for the PSX FFT that doesn't do anything but add in the PSP version's script. So.
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This is my first time, so apologies for the dumb question, but how does the start of the fiesta work? Do they do The Run on the 19th, and as soon as they finish, everyone else starts? And I saw in the OP that there's a pledge drive to do a run with The Run's jobs between them being announced and the start - when do those get announced? I might try it out just to familiarize myself with stuff, even though I'm pretty sure I won't be able to finish it since I'm guessing they are gonna be stuck with the hardest jobs.
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Fenrir posted:Let's hope this means 2017 will bring us another chosen one  Everhate, the Chosen One
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:This is my first time, so apologies for the dumb question, but how does the start of the fiesta work? Do they do The Run on the 19th, and as soon as they finish, everyone else starts?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What is the absolute worst party you could get and still pull a Triple Crown? Probably not the worst team, but my personal worst was beating Omega with samurai/thief/white/monk. I had to get up to level 58 to do it.
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Fenrir posted:Let's hope this means 2017 will bring us another chosen one Next Year's "The Run": 4 Berserkers. (The fiesta will start at the start of the Run instead of the end)
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:This is my first time, so apologies for the dumb question, but how does the start of the fiesta work? Do they do The Run on the 19th, and as soon as they finish, everyone else starts? In theory it starts when the run ends. In reality it ends when the guy who runs it wakes up after the run ends.
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