Final Fantasy Discovery

Lots of cool things to talk about today.

We've changed up the mechanics of how Draw Points work. When players would find a Draw Point, they'd be able to select a new spell to learn, based on the type of Draw Point found (White, Black, Red). Players would get a few choices for spells, and permanently learn the one they chose.

We've changed how this works now.

All Draw Points are now equal. They don't have a specific type. They also don't permanently teach your characters a new magick spell. Don't panic, though: we're not using the FF8 mechanics on this. Now, when you find a Draw Point, you're rewarded a specific amount of Mako Stones. This new form of currency can be traded in at a Magick Refinery to teach your characters a new magick spell. Each Magick Refinery has their own specific stock of magick spells that can be taught, allowing the player to choose what spells they learn and when, and it also allows me less time coding Draw Points the old, complicated way.



Shown here is Mysidia's own Magick Refinery, as it is upon your first visit.

Next up is something very cool I wanted to talk about for the last few days (if you follow us on Twitter, I may have jumped the gun on announcing when this would be available, and I was totally wrong, ha).

A new addition to the Gold Saucer is the Golden Ticket Shop. This is a special shop that functions unlike any other shop in the game. The items offered in the Golden Ticket shop can only be purchased once each. After that, they're sold out. The shop uses Golden Tickets as currency, which you can find all over Gaia once the Golden Ticket shop is open. There are 255 Golden Tickets spread across the globe, and finding them all allows you to fully purchase the entire stock of items offered at the shop. When you buy an item using Golden Tickets, your tickets aren't deducted. It's progressive.



This image shows but a few of the items you can obtain here.