RedKing
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Hey, I've decided to pull together a bunch of interactive guide tables for a full build planner and progress tracker!
Before I describe it in full, which won't take a giant wall of text like my SC configs, here's a link.
Download the sheets from Google Docs and have a play!
Now, for a quick low-down on the setup.
Once you've downloaded it, you'll notice a whole lot of default setups are already in place, I took all of this from several guides old and new, averaged things out and created the most simple-case builds I could think of just on theory crafting. All of this can be changed, and here is where it gets better than just having an online table telling you what you should and shouldn't do. There is also a second sheet, which has all the best units for you to copy and paste into one of your unit slots.
Each class has it's maximum possible stats input on the far right of the table, and next to it, the totals made up in your current calculated build, taken from your units list, mag levels and material counts. It tells you how many materials you have used, how many you have left to use and how many spare materials you have to play around with based on following the guidance build (this being the Mats Needed section).
The easiest way to make use of this is:
- Change any Mag levels to what you have or plan to make.
- Change Mat Count to whatever materials you already have from a /matcount check in-game.
- Copy any units you have or plan to use, with all of their stats from Sheet2 into one of the blue unit slots, this will automatically update your total stats in "Unit Stats"
Once everything is input, you'll see the cells all update with shiny new totals:
Inputting Mag Level will update Mag Bonus with the actual stats boosts you would gain
Inputting Mat Count will update Mat Stats.
Mats Needed is the guide and can be modified without affecting the result of your current build.
Mag Bonus, Mat Stats and Unit Stats are automatically added together to give you your Total Base, now you can compare this with Max Usable.
And now, why?
I was helping someone new, and while doing so, I found that guides were scattered all over the place, and either didn't agree with each other or simply weren't even up-to-date (here's looking at PSOW)
Another problem I found was a complete lack of tracking, you had to make your own setups and tools to track your own progress - if you're going to help, help fully, so that's what I'm doing!
I wanted to unify the guides and make them more interactive, this was an important thing for me.
Lastly, all the guides I found were guilty of being very hard line - you essentially get told "use this or get out" even in the cases where multiple builds are put forward, it was still multiple set in stone builds that tell you nothing about what you have room to play with. To me, this was the biggest problem, if you want to welcome new players who don't know what they're doing, that just isn't the way to do it, give them wider variety and don't tell them to follow a strict regime in order to not have a ruined character at lv200 and do a material and Mag wipe. We're in the age of Blue Burst and there is so much more leeway than there used to be back on the Game Cube and Dream Cast.
There's one feature I haven't yet figured out!
If anybody can help with this, please tell me how or even just upload a modification yourself.
I wanted to make it so that you could select a unit from a drop down menu, and have that automatically populate the stats based on your selection - I spent two nights trying several different methods in an attempt to do this, but kept hitting a wall and going back to copy/pasting the units from the second sheet.
Other than that, I hope you all use and enjoy this!
Before I describe it in full, which won't take a giant wall of text like my SC configs, here's a link.
Download the sheets from Google Docs and have a play!
Now, for a quick low-down on the setup.
Once you've downloaded it, you'll notice a whole lot of default setups are already in place, I took all of this from several guides old and new, averaged things out and created the most simple-case builds I could think of just on theory crafting. All of this can be changed, and here is where it gets better than just having an online table telling you what you should and shouldn't do. There is also a second sheet, which has all the best units for you to copy and paste into one of your unit slots.
Each class has it's maximum possible stats input on the far right of the table, and next to it, the totals made up in your current calculated build, taken from your units list, mag levels and material counts. It tells you how many materials you have used, how many you have left to use and how many spare materials you have to play around with based on following the guidance build (this being the Mats Needed section).
The easiest way to make use of this is:
- Change any Mag levels to what you have or plan to make.
- Change Mat Count to whatever materials you already have from a /matcount check in-game.
- Copy any units you have or plan to use, with all of their stats from Sheet2 into one of the blue unit slots, this will automatically update your total stats in "Unit Stats"
Once everything is input, you'll see the cells all update with shiny new totals:
Inputting Mag Level will update Mag Bonus with the actual stats boosts you would gain
Inputting Mat Count will update Mat Stats.
Mats Needed is the guide and can be modified without affecting the result of your current build.
Mag Bonus, Mat Stats and Unit Stats are automatically added together to give you your Total Base, now you can compare this with Max Usable.
And now, why?
I was helping someone new, and while doing so, I found that guides were scattered all over the place, and either didn't agree with each other or simply weren't even up-to-date (here's looking at PSOW)
Another problem I found was a complete lack of tracking, you had to make your own setups and tools to track your own progress - if you're going to help, help fully, so that's what I'm doing!
I wanted to unify the guides and make them more interactive, this was an important thing for me.
Lastly, all the guides I found were guilty of being very hard line - you essentially get told "use this or get out" even in the cases where multiple builds are put forward, it was still multiple set in stone builds that tell you nothing about what you have room to play with. To me, this was the biggest problem, if you want to welcome new players who don't know what they're doing, that just isn't the way to do it, give them wider variety and don't tell them to follow a strict regime in order to not have a ruined character at lv200 and do a material and Mag wipe. We're in the age of Blue Burst and there is so much more leeway than there used to be back on the Game Cube and Dream Cast.
There's one feature I haven't yet figured out!
If anybody can help with this, please tell me how or even just upload a modification yourself.
I wanted to make it so that you could select a unit from a drop down menu, and have that automatically populate the stats based on your selection - I spent two nights trying several different methods in an attempt to do this, but kept hitting a wall and going back to copy/pasting the units from the second sheet.
Other than that, I hope you all use and enjoy this!
