Kyrosiris posted:

Oh yeah right, the cool stuff guide is dead. I'll edit that and do the toxx post later.

Some Guy TT posted:

It's funny you should mention visibility. Because you know what I saw when I finally did find the 2019 thread, that put me in a bit more of a snappy mood than I'd intended? Twenty-two new posts. Now, how could there be twenty-two new posts when I stopped checking in after the Fiesta ended?

As I'm sure you are aware, it's because RK held two events, one in December and one in March. I didn't know about these events and judging by the thread's traffic nobody else did either. That's because this subforum was covered, as usual, in a deluge of posts and threads by users with little interest in the Fiesta even assuming by sheer chance their eyeballs had managed to spasm for long enough to notice its existence.

Games has always been an imperfect environment for the Fiesta thread. It's a shotgun spread that does bring in new players, enough to be fairly successful, even if after six years we're still talking about a thread that caps out at sixty-two pages. But that's not because of the magic of Games. That's the magic of the Fiesta. That same magic that gets you all here every year. Because you're passionate about FFV's classic design, formatted in a style that's rarely seen this century. You are special and I am not saying this to flatter you. I am saying this to empathize that the Fiesta appeals to a certain kind of person.

That person is a Retro Games poster. A person utterly obsessed with ancient obscure games, and typically in the possession of more money than any kind of sense about an appropriate place to spend it. The kind of person who could get hyped by posts in a dead thread three months later because it's in a subforum that gets a lot less action- but what action it does get is centered around that very special itch, in a more convenient, intuitive location to boot. You dig?

Harrow posted:

I did something like it when I replayed FF6 most recently. I called it the "Esper Attunement" run.

The idea is that each Esper can only be used by a certain number of characters--outside of those characters, nobody else can use it, meaning they can't learn its spells or get its level-up stat bonuses. The first time I did it, I sorta broke the Espers into three tiers based on how powerful their spells/bonuses were. The weakest Espers could be used by up to three characters; the middle Espers by up to two; and the best could only ever be used by one character. It didn't really make the game harder, necessarily, but it did lead to me actually specializing characters and "building" them to be strong in specific ways. It also meant that I got a lot more use out of characters' unique abilities--Strago's blue magic meant I didn't have to waste many spellcasting Espers on him because he had magic of his own, and similarly Edgar's tools and Sabin's blitzes took over for magic for them as well. I focused a lot on Locke having high HP so he could get good damage out of the Valiant Knife. Celes, Terra, and Relm got to be my main spellcasters because of their naturally higher magic stats.

It was pretty fun all around. Not all that hard, but it added more decision-making and made each character feel very distinct all the way up to the end, which I appreciated. Next time I might go all the way and just make it so that every Esper can only ever be "attuned" to one character so I really, really have to specialize right from the start.

Countblanc posted:

Was there a unique run type this year?

Feldegast42 posted:

How is party formed

Kyrosiris posted:

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Cattail Prophet posted:

Help, my brain put two and two together and I couldn't stop myself:

Mega64 posted:

An excuse to post a thing I made a few months ago.

Kheldarn posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

It makes me happy that Gilgamesh is just Greg now even outside of FF14.

Feldegast42 posted:

Wait I thought The Run was Monk / Red Mage / Geomancer / Dancer? It still shows as such on the site

Galick posted:

gently caress, I wish that you could combine that into the octostab of death. But you can't !Dance and !Rapidfire at the same time. Oh well, here's hoping I get a Monk this run because that sounds hilarious. I might Job Fair it.

E: I don't suppose FF5 is on the Switch or Playstation store, is it? Preferably the Advance version? I'd rather not get the Steam one but if that's all I can get, then that's all I can get.

Hackan Slash posted:

My favorite part about this is everything is so janky that the fiesta page registration just creates a tweet.

Also, do people not use enkibot anymore? I just saw a spreadsheet in the op.

ReWinter posted:

I've never Fiesta-d (or finished FFV, for that matter) before but I'm pretty excited about it - will Gilgabot be tweetable for jobs,etc after the runs? I assumed the commands wouldn't work until the timer on the site finishes.

ultrafilter posted:

Are they starting the fiesta now, or are they still waiting for the countdown to finish?

DalaranJ posted:

Is Bowie out of money? That's gonna be a rough finish if he hasn't even made it NED.
Edit: No, gill toss just did 0 for some reason against Catastrophe?

McFrugal posted:

Tomorrow? But it starts in 2 days.

Pyrus Malus posted:

somebody correct me if I'm wrong - if you do something like pure chaos and your first job is a water job, you use freelancer til the water crystal?

Pyrus Malus posted:

a friend of mine got possibly the worst pure chaos job pull of all time:

berserker, bard, dancer, mime

Vil posted:

Freelancer / Berserker / Time Mage / Monk in a pure chaos risk run. Should be interesting.

Mr. Maltose posted:

Both Shinryu and Omega are vulnerable to Quick Leak strats, right? I’ll probably end up with faster ways to dunk at least Shinryu but it’d be a good backup plan if I’m feeling too lazy to work more complicated ways.

Feldegast42 posted:

Is there a good steal list around here somewhere?

ultrafilter posted:

Mime/Mime/Mime/Mime might actually be the worst party.