Final Fantasy V 4 Job Fiesta - Restricted FFV playthrough for charity

[Howard Alan Treesong]

http://www.letsplaying.com/FF5FF/

Basically, a TwitterBot gives you four random jobs. THOSE ARE YOUR JOBS. You cannot use any other jobs in the game. Good luck.

There are a few other restrictions, but those are the most salient for your first playthrough. Proceeds go to Child's Play.

I signed up ... anyone else interested?

[demi]

I've been doing it the past 48 hours. Did it last year.

Doing a regular run, I dont find the "special rules" that interesting.

[demi]

See, here's me

http://www.letsplaying.com/FF5FF/players.php?player=frostitution

[Howard Alan Treesong]

My first job was ... Thief.

My pledge is:  $10 now, $10 when I finish, $20 if I don't, and $1 each time the game plays ~Battle on the Big Bridge~

[Himu]

I may join. Did it last year. If only I could play ffv on the go with my 3ds.

[demi]

I beat it with Thief, Geomancer, Berzerker, and Chemist

It's doable!

[Himu]

My first job was ... Thief.

My pledge is:  $10 now, $10 when I finish, $20 if I don't, and $1 each time the game plays ~Battle on the Big Bridge~

Haha. That was me last year. Thief is actually a decent starter job.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I may join. Did it last year. If only I could play ffv on the go with my 3ds.

I may sideload FFV onto my Nexus 4 and emulate my way through it ?! It's not the best way to play, but it's most likely way I'll get enough playtime in...

[Himu]

I've never emulated a game on my phone. Guess there's a good reason to try now.

[demi]

I use my SP 101 cause I only expect the best for myself.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I use my SP 101 cause I only expect the best for myself.

I have a feeling most of my playing is going to be done during lunch breaks, and no way I can whip my PSP Go out at my new jorb :~(

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Though if the phone doesn't work out, I will

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[Himu]

I use my SP 101 cause I only expect the best for myself.

Accept, sweetheart. Accept.

[Himu]

On a good note it isn't like ffv is long anyways.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Maybe I should buy a GBA Micro. FOR CHARITY.

[Himu]

Yeah I've got the gba version of ffv in cart form. But no gba (or DS for that matter).

[Himu]

Fuck it. I'll pop ffv from ff anthology in my ps2 and play that way. Too lazy for emulators or whatever and I wanna to relish in the original translations awfulness one last time.

[demi]

My arsenal:

http://i.imgur.com/p2IdAG0.jpg

[Howard Alan Treesong]

BTW I'm unclear on rules.

Once I unlock Thief, do I have to change everyone to Thief? Or can I keep them Freelancer until my 2nd, 3rd, 4th jobs are unlocked?

[demi]

Yes, everyone goes Thiaf.

When you get Water crystal, you can have a mixture of the two. You can also mix abilities if you want.


The main rule is - only those four jobs -

[Himu]

I miss my nes gbasp. I was stupid to sell it for a DS in 2005.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

My arsenal:

http://i.imgur.com/p2IdAG0.jpg

I lost my NES SP and sold my Famicom micro ... I only have one console that plays GBA games left in my house.

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[demi]

Ha, I knew I forgot something. If thats the case I would take a screen of my Wii as well

[Himu]

THIS IS WHY YOU PUT GBA ON 3ds VC NINTENDO YOU STUPID FUCKS.

[demi]

I use my SP 101 cause I only expect the best for myself.

Accept, sweetheart. Accept.

Accept what? Did I use the wrong word?

If I go to a steakhouse, I don't "accept" the best. I "expect" the best.

[Damian79]

How do these rules work.  Do you play jobless until you can do the jobs?

[Himu]

[demi]

How do these rules work.  Do you play jobless until you can do the jobs?

It works like this (assuming no special rules)

- Freelancer
- Unlock Wind Crystal
- Twitter Bot assignes a job
- You turn all 4 characters into that job, that is your ONLY job
-- NO MORE FREELANCER BEYOND THIS POINT --
- Unlock Water Crystal
- Twitter bot assigns another job
- You can now use only those TWO jobs. You can mix and match.
- Unlock Fire Crystal
- Twitter bot assigns another job
- You can now use THREE jobs. Mix and match.
- Unlock Earth
- Twitter bot assigns final job
- You can only use FOUR jobs. Mix and Match.
- Beat game

[Damian79]

My bad.   I think i understand now, you can interchange between any of those jobs?

EDIT:  Thanks for the explanation demi.

[Himu]

How do these rules work.  Do you play jobless until you can do the jobs?

Okay. When you first start it up you dibt have a class. When you get to the wind  crystal you go and tweet #water to gilgabot and he assigns you a job. You have to have all party members as that job. Get to next crystal and you get your second job. You have to use your old job on top of the new job in your party. This can be 3-1 or 2-2. Just make sure all jobs are represented. You keep doing this until you beat the game.

Beaten by Demi.

[demi]

You can switch around jobs as you see fit, if you are in a story situation that requires a mixup.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

If I win the lottery and roll Mystic Knight, can I make a party of 4 Mystic Knights at the end? Or MUST your final party consist of 1 and only 1 of each allowed job?

[demi]

No, you can only have ONE Mystic Knight. However, you can have the other persons have Spellblade if you want.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

No, you can only have ONE Mystic Knight. However, you can have the other persons have Spellblade if you want.

Okay, so as long as I have 1 of each I can mix and match and subclass (unless you're going #natural which I assuredly am not)

[demi]

This explains the rules as well.

http://www.letsplaying.com/FF5FF/help.php?s=e

Wind crystal jobs available:
Everyone must be Monk.
Water crystal jobs available:
You must have one Monk and one Berserker. The either two characters may be either Monk or Berserker.
Fire crystal jobs available:
You must have one Monk, one Berserker and one Beastmaster. The last character can be Monk, Berserker or Beastmaster.
Earth crystal jobs available:
For the rest of the game you must always have one Monk, one Berserker, one Beastmaster, and one Dancer in your party.

A character need not remain one class exclusively. For example, if Bartz is the Berserker and Krile the Beastmaster, you can swap Bartz to the Beastmaster and Krile to the Berserker at any time. Unlocked sub-skills can be used with any other job.

[Himu]

Yup. This isn't the case if you have their berserker chance though. With that one you have the chance of all four getting berserker. I think that happened to rk once.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Yup. This isn't the case if you have their berserker chance though. With that one you have the chance of all four getting berserker. I think that happened to rk once.

[Himu]

Well  4 party berserker chance only happens if you sign up for it. That's ff5jf hard mode.

[demi]

The only problem I have with this is that all the "exploits" and easy methods are written out, making replays kind of mundane. I guess theres no getting around that, but I also dont do many replays of games unless I'm really jonesing.

Thankfully I've received jobs I didnt get last year, so it's neat to see how they work this time around.

Pic of my current team:

http://i.imgur.com/8qiTOUO.jpg

[Damian79]

Lastly do lose if die?  Do i have to start over?

[demi]

No? This aint no Nutzlocke run

[thisismyusername]

I thought RK changed the rules to where Water is Butz/Bartz's one. Wind is Lenas, Fire is Feris, and forgetting the last one is Galuf's or something. Or is that the special rules in effect?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Lastly do lose if die?  Do i have to start over?

if you die in the game, you have to die in real life

[Himu]

The only problem I have with this is that all the "exploits" and easy methods are written out, making replays kind of mundane. I guess theres no getting around that, but I also dont do many replays of games unless I'm really jonesing.

Thankfully I've received jobs I didnt get last year, so it's neat to see how they work this time around.

Pic of my current team:

http://i.imgur.com/8qiTOUO.jpg

Good team. Blue mage brings it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I thought RK changed the rules to where Water is Butz/Bartz's one. Wind is Lenas, Fire is Feris, and forgetting the last one is Galuf's or something. Or is that the special rules in effect?

special rule

[demi]

I thought RK changed the rules to where Water is Butz/Bartz's one. Wind is Lenas, Fire is Feris, and forgetting the last one is Galuf's or something. Or is that the special rules in effect?

I think this is a neat rule, only because that's the "element" the characters are assigned at the Wind Shrine.

[thisismyusername]

I'm probably thinking that's a #natural run. IIRC Naturals also doesn't allow you to mix those four chosen jobs together. What you get is the one job for that one person for the entire game with only that jobs skills to use. Makes it a little "harder."

[Damian79]

Sorry to bother you guys again.  How do they keep track of this? I want to play this on my ipad.  Is it just trust or is there some kind of tracking app?

[demi]

Sign up on twitter. Read the instructions. It's all on the site.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

that really confused me, too. both the playthrough and the pledging are all done on the honor system. sign up on the site and the twitterbot will track your jobs, at least.

[demi]

You dont have to pledge to play.

Some people pledge based on completed games and whatnot.

Here is the gist:

- Pledge or don't
- Sign up through twitter (@ff5forfutures #reg)
- At each crysta, tweet (@ff5forfutures #water / #fire / #earth)
- You will see your next job
- When you beat the game, or beat the special bosses, tweet -- include photo proof of your victory screen (like the one I posted earlier)

[Howard Alan Treesong]

RK's an honest guy.  He expects y'all to be honest too.

and if you cheat and use another job on a restricted playthrough then all you are doing is playing Final Fantasy V and God knows we've all done THAT before

[demi]

Yeah that is an honor system. He has a "job fair" where you can actually pay to get a new job from that crystal, however. Say you get Thief and you want dope ass Black Mage... you have to PAY for that.

[Damian79]

Shit i havent pledges and i registered.    I got black mage too.  Can i still pledge?

[demi]

You dont have to pledge... but I'm pretty sure you can still pledge anyway.

Just tweet.

Here I'll write one for you:

@ff5forfutures I #pledge $10 because I'm learning how to use the internet.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Basically in the first year it was done for charity, lots of people played and had fun, but donations were pretty much driven by about five or six big spenders.  So RK asked his friends for ideas and came up with some ideas himself to get a little more money flowing in from players.  The paying to change your job thing was my idea, and I admit it really relies heavily on the honour system, but I figured, and RK agreed, if you cheat, you're pretty much cheating yourself and sick kids.

I like the way RK let people pay to "sway" his jobs. I think it would be interesting if the original player could pay to "weight" certain jobs, but fans/friends could pay to counter-balance/berserker rush... I dunno. I am SUPER keen on the idea but think the way it's monetized could be significantly improved.

[Damian79]

How do i pay up?

[demi]

It's right there on the site... the giant DONATE button

[thisismyusername]

How do i pay up?

You use Paypal and message RK on GAF or Twitter or wherever and let him know your donation amount and stuff so he can confirm it. Again: Honor system in play.

[Damian79]

Is there a rule against playing an emulated version of the game on PC?  I bought the game legit on ipad but ffs, the controls suck.  I think i will use the ipad exclusively for Blood Brothers.

[demi]

No rules