DESERTOPA'S PROFILE

Honestly, if it weren't my own game and I weren't worried about getting an unrepresentative experience of the challenge players would be getting in combat, I'd probably be doing the same thing.

A few. The imps will go down much faster if you use Ashe's wind magic. The wolves are vulnerable to fire magic; not super vulnerable, but they have an elevated chance of receiving the "panic" status if they're hit with it. The Forest Hulk is even more so, when you fight it. Especially when there are more enemies than party members, Long Thrust is useful when you have the TP for it, since it applies the Defend state (in addition to reducing damage, Defend also dramatically cuts your chances of being stunned, which the wolves can inflict, or disoriented.) Try not to spread your fire too thin attacking too many different enemies with different characters, since the longer you take to bring individual enemies down, the more damage your party members will take. When he's in the party, James' Poison spell is worth using, since it attacks three random enemies, so it'll dish out more damage than his other options. Don't worry too much about depleting his MP quickly. When you have Will in your party and you're facing a battle which is likely to last several turns, it's worth taking a turn to have him use his Fire Weapon skill, since it'll increase his damage output against the wolves or the Forest Hulk significantly.

Once you get to a gap in the battles, definitely take the chance to heal your party members. Better to use healing spells out of battle here, since the sequence isn't so long that running out of MP is a major danger, but in battle, be prepared to use healing items if you need them.

How much you've leveled up and to what extent you've upgraded your party members' equipment makes a substantial difference at this point. If your party is as strong as it's possible to be by this point, it's entirely practical to finish this sequence without using any healing items at all.

Although you can't grind for unlimited money, as long as you have access to the Guardian outpost, you still have the option to replenish your healing items. If you're out of Styptics, and can't afford to buy more, you can take five from the shelf at the Palk outpost. You can do this an unlimited number of times as long as you use them up first, but you can't stockpile them. This is also one reason your healing items don't have a sell price; if you could sell them back to the store, you'd be able to exploit the Guardian guild's supply for unlimited money.

I've spent a hefty chunk of time looking for suitable music for a location, and I thought this piece was a good fit. The problem is, despite having points where it feels like it could loop smoothly, it has a very conspicuous end point which makes it unfitting for background music as-is. I downloaded Audacity and tried to follow a tutorial for making music loop smoothly specifically for this, but I have literally no prior experience with it, or music editing at all, so while I have a sense that it should be practical, maybe even easy for someone with experience, none of my attempts so far sound right at all.

If anyone either has advice on how I can do this (or whether it's actually practical at all,) or can do it themselves (I have a feeling if knew what I were doing, this might be about a couple minutes' work,) I'd appreciate it a lot.

author=Ephiam
So even when you exit the game and start it again, the title screen doesn't even have music...? WHAT THE?! I didn't think that was even possible? So battles, victory, the overworld, and even the title screen have no music? In the MIDID version?! How was no one else run into this problem?! Unless it was a freak glitch or something?

Didn't I run into a glitch like that way back during playtesting? I figured you fixed it back then, but I don't think you ever mentioned what turned out to be causing it or how you fixed it.

I needed some custom tiles for a ship in my game, and I found some suitable tilesets here, but I'm having a problem when I try to use them in my game. The tileset looks like it's supposed to in the "preview" window when I look at in the resource manager, but when I try to assemble it as part of a tileset, or apply it during mapping, the images for the tiles only show up down to about the halfway point of the tile sheet. Below that, it's all blank tiles. Is there any way I can fix this?