Crafting?

[ArchBishop]

Hi all! I grew up playing Star Ocean Till the end of time and am curious about something. Does this game happen to have a crafting system similar to the third one? I recall oddly enjoying the exploratory nature of "inventing" random new things with characters of various skill sets and selling them. It was a fun time sink. (Either way, I am loving this game so far. I missed the mere feeling of this series.)

[Xengre]

Yes, and you get immediate access to most of the crafting systems about an hour or two into the game at the city with the castle. A bit further (another 2-3 hours probably, maybe slightly more depending, on avg) you will see shops update when you can travel to the new continent with the final resources you are missing for the rest of the crafting stuff. At this point you will have nearly all the IC (Item Creation) stuff in the game available.

You can go ham with this game quite early in. The IC in this game is overwhelmingly more extensive than in Star Ocean Till the End of Time.

Tip: If you level up someone's writing stat to level 10 you can get free upgrades without wasting massive amounts of SP to a huge number of skills by writing books which work up to level 7 of 10 total levels saving you a lot of SP. You only have to buy the last 3 if you do this. Also learn Determination before you spend SP on anything else. Doesn't cost much to max but lowers the cost of everything else dramatically.

[ArchBishop]

Originally posted by Xengre:

Yes, and you get immediate access to most of the crafting systems about an hour or two into the game at the city with the castle. A bit further (another 2-3 hours probably, maybe slightly more depending, on avg) you will see shops update when you can travel to the new continent with the final resources you are missing for the rest of the crafting stuff. At this point you will have nearly all the IC (Item Creation) stuff in the game available.

You can go ham with this game quite early in. The IC in this game is overwhelmingly more extensive than in Star Ocean Till the End of Time.

Tip: If you level up someone's writing stat to level 10 you can get free upgrades without wasting massive amounts of SP to a huge number of skills by writing books which work up to level 7 of 10 total levels saving you a lot of SP. You only have to buy the last 3 if you do this. Also learn Determination before you spend SP on anything else. Doesn't cost much to max but lowers the cost of everything else dramatically.

Oh! This is exciting to hear. Do you recruit new inventors as well? Thank you for the insight either way. Not to mention the extra tips. This will be extremely useful.

[Cyflan]

The crafting in this game is quite different from how it works in SO3.
No inventors, all the crafting is done by your party members.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by ArchBishop:

Oh! This is exciting to hear. Do you recruit new inventors as well? Thank you for the insight either way. Not to mention the extra tips. This will be extremely useful.

Nope. The game does not feature SO3's recruit system.

However, they do have super specialty IC tasks which require 2 or more characters from your party to have a minimum level in a given IC to perform it which can do more advanced IC stuff. It is an average it seems so the higher the more characters are in your group the better. Like cooking > Master Chef to create some really epic food items or Music > Orchestra for powerful varied effects, etc. You can also get special items to boost success rate in a IC, too.

[Dogi ( ﾟ ヮﾟ)]

3's crafting was extremely different from the rest of the series.