Well, well, seems like I managed to annoy someone with my big posts. To be honest, I had a feeling this was going to happen sooner or later, just by the size of my posts. 😄
So, in the first place, I'm sorry if I ever sounded offensive towards you, Stabbey. In all my... "many words", I never intended to insult you, or even to disprove you. You were the first to answer my original post and the greatest contributor to this thread so far. As I mentioned before, you didn't give me a wrong answer, but I was kind of making the wrong question, in my original post.
I do not want a fight with you or anyone else in the forum.
In defence of my "research", I think it actually is a pretty relevant topic on the C-RPG world. In every game that I've played with parties, it always comes to my mind: what is the ideal party for this specific game? and I bet everyone made themselves this question at least once. It might look like I went a little bit too deep on my search for this answer. But the thing is that many of the ideas that I shared in my last post, were already brewing in my head for some months already. My big posts might give the impression that I sat on the computer for 24 hours straight writing a forum post 😄. What I do is, I write just a bit each day, on the Notepad. I start with just a few words, and tomorrow a bit more, and a bit more and so on. Only when it's finished I paste it on the internet browser. I do this because I have lost big texts before by typing it straight to the browser, it's dangerous. You accidentally close/refresh the window and it's all gone.
So, please do not take my posts as me versus you, Stabbey. It's not my intention at least.
Back to my "defence", when I was still creating my character, I was actually going to play solo. Only me, no companions, is the way I wanted to go. But as I researched a bit on the internet, I realised that it is not the ideal way to play this game, mainly because I wouldn't have enough points to spend on all the Civil Abilities. So I wouldn't be fully enjoying the game in a Solo run. To be honest I felt a little bit forced to play as a party back then. So I thought, well, if I'm already doing this, let's go to the end. If going solo doesn't allow me the whole experience of the game, I want a party that does offer this whole experience, or at least as much as possible. There is where my research for this "complete" party started.
If you play Solo you can beat the game. If you play with a party of 4 members of the same class, like 4 mages, you can beat the game. And it is great that this game offers us such an enormous range of options, but in both of those 2 cases, the player would be missing the experience of many scenarios in the game. So I decided to give up on my solo run and play the game as the game wanted me to play it. With a party that would allow me to experience the maximum range of scenarios offered my the game. It took a lot more effort than I expected, but you know what? it has always, always been fun to ponder about this subject to me. Doing a little bit at a time, for the months! that I have been on my first playthrough, it was not wasted at all. In fact, I'm not done with it and will keep observing if the game has more clues for me about this subject.
I bet someone out there would say that all the more advanced knowledge that you gathered about the mechanics of the combat of the game (like what you explained to me about the Warfare points), were also completely pointless, since you can just play on Explorer mode and forget about the numbers. But each person enjoys the game in it's own way. Some think that the lore is pointless and what matters is only the combat. Others are the opposite.
I'd say that we should all respect the way that other people enjoy the game. Whatever you like about the game, will always be pointless to someone else, but they should still respect you, right?. Well I think it's impossible to call something a:
"bizarre example of excessively pointless navel-gazing and obsessive over-analyzing of a subject which does not deserve anywhere close to this much analysis." without sounding provocative.
My posts and words have not been pointless, at all, if me and others have enjoyed it. And with the more than 1,000 views on this thread, I suspect I'm not the only one interested.
You've made good contributions to this thread Stabbey, please feel free to make more. ✌
Last edited by Wilker; 07/06/20 10:48 PM.
