SKIE FORTRESS'S PROFILE

...That makes no sense at all. Did you download the latest build of the demo? Everyone else that played so far got through fine, and I didn't insert any game over clauses in the events.

- The way to navigate the overworld map is particularly unique. But I do prefer one button press to navigate one point to another though. Convenience's sake :P

- Hmn, I actually thought about that, but the choice to enter or not is a failsafe in the case of players who accidentally select a place they didn't mean to. It's much more annoying entering a dungeon area specifically and then having to wait to leave. So the choice is there!

- Orbal weapon? Quartz? No offense but, does the game hold some heavy references from Legend of Heroes series? I only played Trails in the Sky episode 1, so... This is the first Sacred Earth game that I played too.

- No offense taken, they are references to Legend of Heroes. Nice job catching it. 8D

- It feels empty for a status screen without any portrait when there's a room available for it. Just personal opinion though.

- The status screen is a work in progress. The characters will have portraits on the right side of the screen...when they're done. Which will be...eventually.

- Ar Tonelico 1's Battle Theme. It brings good old times :) But, lacking a loop?

- 2k3 has trouble looping as far as I know. But yes, Fenrir's my favorite AT battle theme. It's a placeholder though until I find something I like just as much and is original. ...Which is turning out to be a very hard task.

- Counting by turns (times activating commands), remaining Life, etc... So the basic is to do things as efficiently as possible. Really, common problems that accompanies games with unique, great battles are just, the basics sometimes are hard to grasp at start. Yep, the learning curve is pretty steep. The chain thing is to be read first, too, albeit being unique!

- Yes, the general goal of battle is to fight as efficiently as possible. That's my intention anyhow, but currently, the battle ranking system grades players based on the assumption that they have a full party. I need to rework it to be more mindful of party size.

- I see Brave Clear contributes greatly to the end score. But still, the scoring system is pretty unforgiving. Gunnar's out, but get a C Rank with Brave Clear?

- Other problem. I'm certain that I cleared a battle unschathed, only took 2 turns, but the 100% LF Brave Clear isn't achieved, and got a D Rank? No joke, so unforgiving. So I decided to just forget those ranks and fight along.

- Like I said above, the system grades you based on the assumption that you have a full party, so solo or dual parties get lower scores.

- But with so much ether left from focusing, the rank is B... So the total turns took is not important or what?

- Turns taken is only facet of the system. The other factors matter as well. This isn't FFXIII where only time taken matters.

- And it ends with a Game Over, after clearing the first dungeon. I think the demo ends there.

- Actually the demo goes on for much longer than the first dungeon. What did you get a game over in? After the first boss, you should be continuing events.

Sums up, I found the learning curve is pretty steep, with so much mechanics explained mostly on http://rpgmaker.net/games/5094/Mechanics/ . It's a minor problem to hinder me, though. I wish that I've wasted my time on earlier Sacred Earth games long time ago :(

Yes, I know the learning curve is pretty steep. It's a system that's not very standard, so there are a lot of alternative things to take into account. I tried to break it up in game and give it to the player in small doses however.

Thank you for playing so far though. Your feedback is appreciated!

author=Archeia_Nessiah
Alright some stuff.

#0 ugh molebox.
#1 the snow doesn't disappear when you enter the houses at the beginning. When you get out of dark space, the snow disappears completely as well in the town.
#2 all tutorials should be optional because they're annoying and cancels my attacks.
#3 attacks get cancelled way too often ESPECIALLY chain skills even when I'm taking it slow and it gets really annoying I guess. Are they really in wait mode? It feels active.
#4 This http://puu.sh/2NGNh/ff41cfa411.jpg I can't proceed in the game because of this.
#5 Once you get LF break by the trap, there's no way of healing.
#6 I'm soloing the forest and one enemy inflicts stun. You can guess what happened and me almost throwing my mouse to the wall.
#7 Patchouli is still locked and I can't get her into my party during the flower scene.
#8 I got the Energy storm skill thing but I don't see it in my burst skills. Where is it?
#9 a way to access the menu for all my skills that isn't battle (since it seems to be in active battle) Would be really appreciated. Especially since I tend to forget some stuff whenever I was doing the soul upgrade thingmajing.
#10 speaking of traps, it'd be nice to know if there's a way to know if we can actually avoid them than nullify, I wouldn't remember what my rank is for example since it was an out of the blue thing.

#11 Ridiculous brave clears. I killed 2 enemies in 3 turns without getting much damage as Gunnar (since I was too fast for them and I just bolt their asses), I still get a D rank. Wtf? Honestly I got D ranks all the way no matter how fast I killed them or if they even managed to hurt me or whatever. I know it's probably not about speed, but really? :x

The most I got is a Rank B and that's when the FULL LP/EF thingmajings finally stopped appearing for 2-3 battles.

0. Hrm, yeah I know. I wish there were some way of compiling the game that wasn't molebox, but I'm not familiar with that line of program types.

1. What houses in the beginning? Let me have a look at this... Aha, I see. The events in the city. That's an easy fix. (DONE)

2. I'll make them optional.

3. I know, I know. And it is in wait mode. I had the EXE specifically forced to be that way from the start. I really have no way of fixing this any further because this is a hard coded issue that I can't do jack about. It's REALLY annoying! And no one is tackling it!

4. Guh, looks like RMtool got rid of some resources that were actually being used.
I'll have to...ehhhhh...maybe I should just upload an open copy.

5. What do you mean? It should pass after or during battle.

6. Oh, I forgot about that. I knew I was supposed to alter something with one of those enemies. Whoops!

7. You're supposed to solo that quest since it's still Day 3.

8. Energy Storm? Or the EX Skill, Force Stream? Because...they should be there. Let me check... Oh wow. Energy Storm doesn't show up. Even when I buy it, but the code clearly says that it is being added. This is....stupid. Let me fix this. Sigh. Though really, I didn't expect anyone to get to 4th Burst skills for anyone, haha... Edit: OH! I got it! Old timecard framework was getting in the way! It's fixed now.

9. I'll think about how to approach this. Maybe with the next menu upgrade. Since I still have work I need to do on it.

10. I'll think about how to approach this as well. I may have to go all pictures for this. Or rework dodging entirely.

11. Brave Clears are entirely optional and random. Whichever ones you get are up to the system. There's really nothing that can be done for that. If you get one you can do...do it! If you can't, ignore it. :D

Additionally, Battle Report Rank depends on how much LF/EP/LP is left after battle in addition to turns taken, but I think that the criteria MAY be a bit too constricting at the moment. Still I've been managing Bs and Cs by the time the third dungeon came around. I'll need to think about how to approach this.

In any case...looks like I need to upload a fixed copy to address missing files and such. Sigh. Thank you though!

author=wltr3565
Just reconfirming. Why did my anti virus program detect the file that it has a trojan?

It's not a virus. Apparently Molebox does this, according to other people. I'll need to upload the game another way.