You make a valid point that 'The encounter hardness should not come out of bugs and malfunctions, or from falsely represented info. Nor should the sense of achievement come from abusing the obvious buggs in the system.'
However, in RPGs, what you read in a book should not always be what is supposed to be truth. Ahru says himself that the robot he created escaped his control. If his Great Wizardness could not succesfully control his creation through the controller, what makes you think mere Source Hunters could?
This is called analytical reading, which you obviously lack. And you thinking that the only way to save the townspeople without abusing the system by having a main char stay away with the townspeople is a definite proof that your tactical skills still need improvement, am I right?
I did what you could not, without breaking a sweat, with a lower level party and without abusing the system like you did. Call me a moron, but I'm still tactically better than you at this game.
Last edited by Naj; 02/06/14 04:28 PM.