Exactly! I'm searching my brain off for a Tactics-esque engine that doesn't suck! If need be, I'll find out how to hack FFTA!

And I was even thinking it'd be awesome to throw some Marvel Legends in there, with certain parties getting power-ups based on the combination of forumites in it. Like, say, +5 agility bonus for having Silly Kitty, CheshireThief, and Me because we're all cat-people.

And if it were like FFTA, the Mods could be like the Judges, which would make us hate them more when we go into battle and it's against the law to use swords.

I have gotten Python to mess around with GalaxyMage, but there's not much I can do. I have managed to make a custom class and ability, and I'm doing work on trying out my own sprites, and I don't seem to have what I need to mess about with the engine.

I'd be OK with doing a straight rip of FFTA. Making more races/classes can't be that hard.

I mean, SquarEnix did it, and they're all on more drugs than Pac-Man and Mario combined.

Trust me, if I do it, I will so be going here for input.

After all, it's not like the internet's moving.

I could do something.

I have zero experience at coding, but I could chip in on the writing.

Or design classes/races/items/weapons. Or something.

Wow, compared to the first post, this thing is really movind. Anyways... lets make a descion on how the battle sytem shall be, since everyone all giddy on that.

Choices include:

Tatical
Action Based(Zelda or Tales of)
Classic
MMO(Hell its a possibility)

Also we to solitify Classes if we'er doing them:

Warrior
Archer
Knight
Priest/Cleric (I say male and female are not clones in each class)
Wizard
Lancer
Thief
Caviler(sp?) (Hell, this is so FE ripped)

Keep going.

MMO's not really an option, unless you can find someone willing to devote all of there waking hours to it with a lot of server-space and a buncha free money.

I'd give my vote to tactical.

There's also something I thought of.

Would you guys want to do a different setting other than standard cookie-cutter fantasy? There's a bunch that would be fun. Sci-fi, steampunk, etc., etc.

Cavalier, NEWB! Oh wait, you're NMR. Not Newb. My bad.

As for classes, this IS NPF!

We have:
Mage: Mauve BMGirl, Red Mage black, although maybe he's a Red Mage? Is he a red mage whose name is Black?
Necromancer: DB, although Wizard would also fit.
Undead: Krylo
Elementalist: Pyros, Raiden, Incendius, Flare
Vampire: Sometimes Krylo
Mod: THE Mods, duh.
Heavy Swordsman: Everyone who's ever played FF7 and watched anime
Mime: TBM
Musician/Troubadour: Cheshy, Starky,
Gunner: Krylo
Thief/Ninja: Inbred
Tankman: Mammoth
Lawyer-Ninja: Ryu-Karai (just for having a phoenix Wright avatar)
Naga: Flare
Capitalist: POS
Chaos-Mage: Arhra, Rhiya, Pyros

The list goes on!

I could try helping with writing or game design. I have some good ideas for the latter, and it's easy to come up with the former. Just, I haven't actually done the game designing.

Hold it, Pyros...

Regarding classes, we should probably look upon two things:

1) More general, standard classes (Warrior, Mage, etc). Branches and offshoots can come after...

2) Maybe the forumites would be better off deciding their own classes? The directino you're going there (unless it's a joke), there won't be any workable classes whatsoever... Just characters with various abilities, some whom are similar to each other.

Well, okay, but I still think the classes should be at least a little more exotic than just Warrior, Mage, etc.

Is it possible to institute a normal system of class creation?