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".

[Caledor]

August 02, 2018, 07:42:12 PM

Caledor: patch for TLA uploaded again cause i forgot to update descriptions for 3 shields

[Caledor]

August 02, 2018, 01:16:14 AM

Caledor: Don't want to triple post so I'll just announce here that v1.71 is out. I updated my last post.

[KyleRunner]

July 29, 2018, 12:18:00 PM

KyleRunner: Let me see...

[Fox]

July 28, 2018, 08:12:34 PM

Fox: What value do you see at 08000468? (Or 00000468 in hex editor)  0801319D or 08F9EE50?

[KyleRunner]

July 28, 2018, 07:11:11 PM

KyleRunner: "there is an easy fix by changing a pointer back to what it was suppose to be"... Hmmm... How?

[Fox]

July 27, 2018, 10:11:06 AM

Fox: Bootleg*

[Fox]

July 27, 2018, 10:09:03 AM

Fox: There are two ROMs that can be found on the internet, one may have the MEGAROMs boot load stuff. (So not truely clean.) ... If you get a screen while booting the game and holding L+R (I think it was?), then you know you have it, and your ROM is not truely "clean"... it is unfortunate, but there is an easy fix by changing a pointer back to what it was suppose to be..

[MaxiPower]

July 27, 2018, 05:10:13 AM

MaxiPower: Hello World

[KyleRunner]

July 25, 2018, 11:09:23 PM

KyleRunner: Well... here's The problem that needs solving: my GSTLA translation patch only works on a clean rom, with specific CRC. 

[Fox]

July 25, 2018, 07:59:37 PM

Fox: I am not sure I understand? If there was such a program to "clean" a dirty ROM dump, what exactly would it do?

[KyleRunner]

July 25, 2018, 12:37:42 PM

KyleRunner: Hello, guys. Could someone teach me how to "clean" a dirty Golden Sun rom dump? Is there a program or something?

[Atrius]

July 25, 2018, 01:37:40 AM

Atrius: @Fox, yeah... I was expecting it to take 2 weeks at most...

[Majora]

July 25, 2018, 12:03:01 AM

Majora: Yes, I believe so. Think they were made public a while ago prior to the site issue

[Luna_blade]

July 24, 2018, 08:26:45 PM

Luna_blade: is it normal that I can see all clans?

[Luna_blade]

July 24, 2018, 08:25:41 PM

Luna_blade: Nice to see it is back!

[Fox]

July 23, 2018, 11:01:36 PM

Fox: Yes. I was expecting it to be a little while longer, but it is great to see that Atrius delivered.

[Majora]

July 23, 2018, 02:30:46 AM

Majora: Thank you for getting the site back online!

[Salanewt]

July 21, 2018, 09:19:06 PM

Salanewt: Time to upload that "EXP gain when KO'd" patch I made a month ago.

[Salanewt]

July 21, 2018, 09:18:48 PM

Salanewt: Oh hey, the site's back up!

[roger]

July 18, 2018, 10:49:52 PM

roger: I can post but it goes to an error page when I submit.

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