CASHMERECAT'S PROFILE

Nice graphics. Really colourful.

Even if Minecraft is a tool it's a fricking sweet tool. I think Minecraft and RPG Maker are actually pretty similar... you're mostly just creating things for the sake of creating them. The end product is good and all, but it's you creating something that provides some kind of reward. I've yet to find out what that reward is.

I still haven't clocked RPG Maker VX Ace to this day.

I wouldn't have even guessed Addit would be banned, he's one of the nicest people on this site. Good man.

author=Rave
Q: HOW DO YOU HAND-HOLD THE PLAYER?
A: You don't.

That's all.

What is your definition of hand-holding and why don't you do it? Does that mean you don't have a tutorial level, you don't tell the player how to access the menu, or even to move their character? How much should they have to figure out themselves? Everything? Then won't it move at a snail-like pace? Elaborate further, I'd really like to know.

1) In a game where you'll end up with a 30 character party, what's a good way to handle equipment? The normal way? Or will players get annoyed buying stuff for that many characters?

I don't know that much about how you're organizing the actors in the party, but I think it would be a cool idea to have shared equipment that you don't have to manually equip. If there's a way to automatically optimize the equipment each character wears, that would be fantastic. e.g. You buy 5 daggers, and they automatically equip with those who can wield daggers. That way, gaining equipment via chests or buying it would provide some bonus, but without having to micromanage every single piece of equipment.

If auto-optimization is out of the equation, you can always group party members into classes, and then provide equipment for each group of classes. e.g. You have a group of heroes called "Warriors", and you can equip "Iron Swords" into the Weapons Slot. I'm not sure if either idea is viable, but it certainly looks cool in my head.

2) ... Do you all have any neat ideas for how you'd like to see recruitment done? Fetch quests? Finding an item that the character needs? Dialog trees? Or would that be tedious? Any ideas would be great!

Having 30 fetch quests for 30 characters might be a bit tedious. I think perhaps you can group characters into locations, and then do a single fetch quest to unlock, say, 4-5 characters. Then you can switch whatever party members you want in a pub setting, or something.

3) ... when you beat the boss, do all the monsters go with him/her/it? That would keep people from using the leftover monsters from previous areas to grind to get to the next level-cap prematurely.

I think that's a good idea. I just hope that there won't be a situation where the player can't overcome the next dungeon or grind for it. Did we discuss a way to allow a place for grinding to happen if the player ever gets stuck progression-wise (from killing too few monsters before the boss)?