Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27886747-20160611191524/@comment-27713488-20160612092658

MailleKerchief wrote: My idea was to allow people some leeway how much they want to be spoiled - just looking over at the structure of the battle would give them some idea what to expect without spoiling too much, with all the detailed consequences of the choices described in the collapsed sections or buried in the footnotes. OK, but what's the plan for people who want to be fully spoiled and don't want to click a bunch of stuff every time they return to the page?

I understand where you're coming from, though, so let me propose an alternative, and one that as a bonus is simpler to implement: Have a "minimal-spoiler" summary/overview of the battle at the top, up by the ToC, and put one of those colored headings at the end of that saying that below that point there be dragons spoilers.

The letters are shorthand for the labels I was going to use in the section above to describe the battle results per category: Excellent, Good, Decent, Bad, Worst, since I know the number of outcomes from your guide, but not the details of the underlying mechanic. The meanings would be more obvious when I fill that in, but they can be changed to something else - grade letters A, B, C... or the actual secret variable values. I would try to use the actual values rather than introducing any additional layers of complexity. If that doesn't work out for some reason, grade letters A-E (not F; you can't actually fail) would be preferable since they have an intuitive order to them. any idea if the Hilstara scene depends on something? It's unmissable. Is it possible to get Aka to 100 affection before the battle? She's locked to 99 before transforming, and the transformation ends just before the battle. The transformation is what lifts the restriction. If you have her at 90 or above the +10 from the transformation will boost her to 100 for the battle. I thought this was already clear in my guide, so if not, I'd appreciate any feedback on how to make it clear.

Argenten wrote: I think the conversations Simon has with Aka the night before the invasion count as her '100 RP conversation' if it's posible fo her to take down the airship into an enemy legion with the requirement of the 100 RP. No, actually. The requirement for the best airship outcome is literally just the numeric value, not the conversation locking that value into permanence. It's quite possible for Aka to lose affection from the aftermath of the battle even if she was temporarily at 100, because you didn't have a chance to have the conversation with her.