Three Ideas for Balancing Summons

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[Fionordequester]

Whereas I fundamentally disagree - if a reward is useless, then it's not a worthy reward, especially if the price of the reward is facing a boss as cheap as Dullahan.  Why bother fighting it?  Once you know how pointless the reward is, then there's no point in even bothering unless you're doing a completionist run.  Might as well have been given a crumpled piece of paper saying "you beat dullahan, good for you", since that would be equally as useful as a reward.

Exactly.  It'd be like how Deadbeard's Demon Mail is like, the most worthless thing ever (and is, in fact, actually detrimental, since Elemental resistance trumps raw Defense).

[leaf]

Considering the whole point of beating bonus bosses for many people is to say they did it, I think it's fine. The reward is knowing that you were able to beat the game's superboss, which is honestly a better reward than *any* item you could give the player at that point. Something awesome but impractical is *preferable* for this kind of situation, since the player isn't going to have anything left to use it on anyway.

[Rolina]

Eh, easiest thing to do is make Iris useful - a 6-7 djinn cost Iris does that.  At double the cost, it's pointless.

[leaf]

No, the "easiest thing to do" is to leave it exactly as it is. Too many designers get worked up about giving every possible quest a gameplay-related reward. Sometimes, it's better to give the player a reward in the form of feedback - a cool cinematic, some story, etc, rather than something that directly impacts the gameplay. In a lot of cases, this feedback reward is more valuable to a player than getting a new shiny weapon. For many players, Iris is just that - it's a cool cinematic with an "apparently" broken effect.

And for the small segment of the playerbase that manages to beat Dullahan but somehow falters on the Doom Dragon, it's very practical to summon using your second party. If you put the djinn on standby beforehand, you can turn 1 Iris after a wipe. It's conventionally more useful than any other 7+ djinn summon in the game.

[Rolina]

We're just not going to agree on this then.

[Fionordequester]

I actually agree with Rolina on this...but it's not terribly important either way.  Endgame rewards liek those are such a minor part of the game, that's it's like "oh well".

[Today]

Today at 08:05:17 AM

Fox: Such a patch would mean you need to be careful with item drops, coins, exp, etc. Because those things would then no longer be an infinite supply.  Whether or not one uses it depends on what they want to do with it.

[Today]

Today at 07:55:01 AM

Fox: (High enough being based on the area you are in.)

[Today]

Today at 07:54:02 AM

Fox: I had a thought today. What if I look into making a simple patch just for lulz.  One that works the same way as using Avoid, but it lasts from start to finish, and can't be disabled.  Avoid only works if your levels are high enough, though... so thought is to keep that as is.

[Today]

Today at 01:55:17 AM

ryancaesar12345: hi guys i have new update in Golden Sun 2 Lost Age Revise Mod.ips try this. :)

[Today]

Today at 01:54:16 AM

ryancaesar12345: where's that link?

[Today]

Today at 01:53:56 AM

ryancaesar12345: i have no account in discord.*

[Yesterday]

Yesterday at 08:44:52 PM

Salanewt: Although in the case of Wish, you could probably just use Breeze instead.

[Yesterday]

Yesterday at 08:44:36 PM

Salanewt: Yeah, it's a messaging program sort of like Skype. I find that it's much easy to walk people through some of the basics of assembly, since that's what you'll need for most animation hacks.

[Yesterday]

Yesterday at 09:39:10 AM

ryancaesar12345: discord? im not good in asm or assembly.

[MaxiPower]

June 22, 2019, 09:37:26 AM

MaxiPower: gpnna update my thread on progress of my character art if anyones interested. :P

[Salanewt]

June 21, 2019, 07:51:44 PM

Salanewt: Hey there! Animation editing can be tricky, but I can share some notes with you if you pop in on our Discord. Are you good with assembly?

[ryancaesar12345]

June 21, 2019, 02:59:40 PM

ryancaesar12345: and how to change a death curse turn in hex editor?

[ryancaesar12345]

June 21, 2019, 02:50:00 PM

ryancaesar12345: and how to make animation but changing palette only like wish blue i want to change violet. for AOE healing and earth element.

[ryancaesar12345]

June 21, 2019, 02:47:44 PM

ryancaesar12345: im done already thanks man i change the icon in that tutorial and all i need is animation most of elemental like healing like wish but wind element. how to import animation in TLA editor in *game crashes* index

[Fox]

June 21, 2019, 12:01:35 PM

Fox: Oh that. You are talking about Caledor's tutorial?

[Fox]

June 21, 2019, 11:49:55 AM

Fox: So in little endian... 08FA0000 (32-bit) is the same as 00 00 FA 08 (8-bits) (Since GBA is little endian) ;;; but if this were big-endian, it would have been 08 FA 00 00 (8-bits)     

[Fox]

June 21, 2019, 11:42:17 AM

Fox: "in the ROM file" = I mean when using any other hex editor to look in the file... ROM section in VBA is 08000000-09FFFFFF, but ROM files are different sizes, so GS1 stops a quarter the way (08800000 / 8MB), and GS2 stops half way. (09000000 / 16MB)

[Fox]

June 21, 2019, 11:39:55 AM

Fox: I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do? ... But all little endian is is just reverse byte. (of the bytes in a data type).... So like... 8-bit is the same regardless of big or little endian. 16-bit is like 0102=big endian 0201=little endian .... 32-bit is like 01020304=big endian ; 04030201=little endian.  (I use 01-04 numbers to represent how the bytes are ordered by address.) ; 00FA0000 in the ROM file is 08FA0000 in VBA's memory viewer/and that's how it works when the game reads

[ryancaesar12345]

June 21, 2019, 05:20:47 AM

ryancaesar12345: i sa that in icon compressor 00FA0000 -> in 00FA0008 hmm?

[ryancaesar12345]

June 21, 2019, 05:14:41 AM

ryancaesar12345: how to convert in hex editor a address in little endian like this? 00FA0080?

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