HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

I think I might give some money steals to every enemy so that it's clear that you should be checking what you can grift from everyone.

I don't think that should happen either; Skitter is always further left when he's in a troop with a turtle.

Oh, also: thanks for finding that glitch with the wall. That was a dumb thing for me to miss, but it's an easy fix.

I think argh's got the right idea. Another fix would be to alter your damage formula. I'm using crystalgate's formula in Jimmy; it basically works like this:

a.atk**2/(a.atk+b.def)

The ** denotes an exponent; so it's attack squared divided by the sum of attack and enemy defense. This makes defense scaling much more natural; with Ace's default formula, defense tends to either be useless or grossly overpowered.

Thanks for the review, Libby! You've made a good point about putting in a stealable thing at a higher rate earlier. Basically, the item that you skipped was a clubhouse item that you could only get one of, and that's the only enemy type in the game that gives that. There are lots of ways to boost your luck (which increases steal rate) and your base steal rate in the game, so I kept Skitter's steal chance low as incentive to revisit the area for completionists (or for players who stick it out early to get a stat boost). But, yeah, that might deincentivize people from attempting grift on later mobs. You don't HAVE to use those strategies, but they're definitely factored into the battle design in a lot of instances.

There's no use for Marvelous Coins in the demo, but they will be used in the full game. The money limit is 999,999,999,999,999, so for God's sake, never hit that.

Edit: Saving won't reset the pedometer. I'll look into the imagination menu thing, though.