Meaning Of Battle Punctuation Stuff you notice when you've played too long...
#1
Posted 04 July 2006 - 04:02 PM
I know what you're thinking. "Platinum, stop wasting our time with useless crap." (People seem to think that a lot around here for some reason... :P ) But this is actually more useful than it appears.
The punctuation tells you what kind of elemental modifier your attack had. A period is a disadvantage, ! is normal, and !!! is an advantage. (Analagous to Pokemon's "It's super effective!" only more subtle.) You can use this to determine what element your enemy is, and from that, what will be most effective against him. (This happens in GS1 as well, but I put it in this forum because it's more useful in TLA)
Well that was fun.
Feel free to ask questions or ridicule me at your leisure.
#2
Posted 04 July 2006 - 04:12 PM
Although I'm pretty sure that I've seen messages with two exclamation marks.
#3
Posted 04 July 2006 - 05:22 PM
#4
Posted 04 July 2006 - 06:49 PM
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#5
Posted 04 July 2006 - 06:54 PM
I'm still waiting to see "Sentinel takes 835 damage !!1!!!!111!"
Well I can dream can't I?
#6
Posted 05 July 2006 - 03:33 AM
FD28
#7
Posted 05 July 2006 - 08:49 AM
#8
Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:25 AM
#9
Posted 06 July 2006 - 08:02 AM
#10
Posted 06 July 2006 - 08:45 PM
Still that a very handy tip there. I'll try to input it into my strategies. n.n
#11
Posted 06 July 2006 - 09:07 PM
Example. Let's use Fire and Water.
"Monster takes x damage." shows inaffectiveness. Fire attacking Water.
"Monster takes x damage!" shows neutral affectiveness. Water attacking Water.
"Monster takes x damage!!!" shows total affectiveness. Water attacking Fire.
#12
Posted 07 July 2006 - 06:14 AM
#13
Posted 07 July 2006 - 09:58 AM
Mars Djinni, on Jul 6 2006, 11:07 PM, said:
Example. Let's use Fire and Water.
"Monster takes x damage." shows inaffectiveness. Fire attacking Water.
"Monster takes x damage!" shows neutral affectiveness. Water attacking Water.
"Monster takes x damage!!!" shows total affectiveness. Water attacking Fire.
That's not quite accurate MD.
Ineffectiveness is when you attack a monster with its own element. Character resistances prove this, they always have giant resistance to their own element and a period is used when they are attacked with it. Also, characters have no pronounced elemental weaknesses. Jenna for instance, has no special weakness to Water, her Water resistance is approximately equal to her Wind and Earth resistances. And Piers has no overt strength against Fire. His fire resistance is approximatley equal to his Wind and Earth resistances.
And the elemental relationship goes both ways. Fire attacking water gets an advantage, and water attacking fire gets and advantage.
So it looks more like this:
"Monster takes x damage." shows reduced affectiveness. Fire attacking Fire.
"Monster takes x damage!" shows full affectiveness. Fire attacking Earth or Wind.
"Monster takes x damage!!!" shows enhanced affectiveness. Fire attacking Water.
It works that way for all four elements. I have to go now, but I'll work on constructing a relationship chart.
Edit: Here's my version of the Elemental relationship chart.
Re-edit: I can't attach Excel files. Crap.
This post has been edited by Platinum Sun: 07 July 2006 - 11:52 AM
#14
Posted 12 July 2006 - 07:07 PM
I'm the kind of person who just mashes the buttons without really looking. xD I choose all my attacks and shiz, then its mashmashmashmashmash.
Either that or I'm just looking at the pretty graphics for the summons. xD o.O;;
I'm weird.