@Echoochoomander@CyberXilophone@KratosMVN People pretend you have to perform every turn action out on the map to progress when that isn't the case. Targeted training, meals, and gifts take a few minutes at most and unless you're trying to recruit everyone you get to cut the gifts pretty early.
@Echoochoomander@CyberXilophone@KratosMVN The retard blocked me so I'll reply to myself. Skipping Sunday to Sunday after you've finished your chapter quests is what people mean by skipping. You still recruit units. You still get supports. You're not manually performing every turn action but instead doing 28 turn chunks.
@ZulikahaJ@tozzeh He's actually a top Charioteer so there's a good chance he ends up a high tier unit in certain routes assuming Maddening ever comes out.
@Echoochoomander@CyberXilophone@KratosMVN Using an entire pocket of nails on one segment of a roof when half a pocket has already secured the shingles to code might be a sign that you should move o to a different part of the roof.
@pinkrosecaelus@FlierEmblem This is the truth but it depends on how much you buy into the fantasy and novelty of Hell Emblem as an extension of the typical Fire Emblem gameplay.
@Forgot2Heal After letting it sit for awhile it's a solid 9.5 for me, maybe made better when the DLC comes out. Kusakihara is a visionary and him and his team showed they are incredibly smart iterative designers. They took ideas from 3H and perfected them.
@KratosMVN Every argument for why free time NEEDS to be minmaxed reads like the old Gamefaqs arguments about why people NEEDED to reach 10/20/20 in the Tower of Valni before progressing the story in FE8.
@mrgreen4227@KratosMVN Renown sources are effectively limited to chapter renown and one time sidequests. Like technically Dietrich can farm minor amounts of renown through Answerer but it's a total waste of time past unlocking Blacksmith, which is a total waste of time in itself.
@CyberXilophone@KratosMVN A support 3 renown 10 recruit is not going to be up to par compared to the same unit at renown 5 support 2 on a different route. And outside of Gaitz the paralogue units are either auto recruits in other paths or heavily telegraphed. You're not punished for not spazzing.
@CyberXilophone@KratosMVN It's annoying when you don't grasp the design intent. You're not supposed to recruit everyone on every path and the auto leveler and hard renown gates to force the auto leveler's downsides deliberately to get you to recruit different units per route.
@ChokepointDoga@meafius I wouldn't mind the intentionality that would be necessary to make every unit a quest recruit but that would probably add more "busywork" to the run time than supports which are very quick and able to be streamlined down to a science. Supports not resetting is a soft NG+.
@AnnaCabana1121@meafius I didn't have any issues reaching rank 5 supports between the units I used throughout parts 1 and 2, mostly the starter groups. Part 3 supports and non-recruits were the ones that really needed another playthrough to get.