Wow this is a very cool, unique game! I enjoy it very much! Its been a bit buggy for me, crashing after every battle i've had so far, but it doesn't bother me too much, I've played lots of games in the beta stage and they turned out awesome. Take Minecraft for example. I can't wait for new things to come, like maybe you can have live pvp battles with friends and random people with your units for cool loot n things, of course with only people around your level, and all sorts of things! Keep it going developers! :D
EQUIPMENT/EXPLOREbTIP: Things that give you new abilities, immune, or resistance or attack boosts, master and register the skill, so that even if you take the item off, the boost is permanent. This can be very useful, so you can have an item on the character to get the skill, master it, then give it to another character so THEY can have it too! Also, make sure to do a full search of each area with chests with your map. It'll be worth the painful walking/fighting as a majority of the chests have some pretty damn useful items, like equipment to get some new skills, and some of and maybe some useful stuff ie: Phoenix Downs. If you go back to the cave where you fought the bandit leader, and go in the other 2 paths, you can get a miner's amulet from a miner, and some loot, as well as some sick items if you go to the main cave at the end, and go into the cave opening on the left. Also, attempt aqualung at bridge...
COMBAT TIP: Emela's spells can target all enemies at once if you push the right key, at the cost of double mana, and Mardek can also do a team heal by hitting the right key! This can come in handy for taking down multiple enemies, or a nice solid quick heal on the team instead of wasting a bunch of potions in battle, and your attack phase.
This is a great game, even though it's in beta, and I absolutely love it! A suggestion for something to add maybe late in the future but not now, is like an exchange thing. I know you have that going with kreds, but maybe a GP into CR and CR into GP and possibly a CR into SP, like for example, 1000 CR for 5 GP or something, but later (for reasons explained by ragefang in the last couple sentences of his comment, starting with "...-I completely understand you need to earn yourself and upkeep servers..."). I definetely love this game, and I'm not saying this game needs this, but it would be a nice feature. Awesome job with the game too so far!
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