Enable Disabling "level cap" Please

[Succubus Nirriti]

Instead of giving us freedoms, to do our own types of runs, it kinda drains the fun of choice. If I like X/Y/Z 'mons and want to do the whole game with these, and lets say they are not good or meta (whatever), I should STILL be able to push through with dedications and working around things, even if still at a disadvantage.

For ex: (though a weird one) I remember soloing Pokemon Silver (DS vers.) with Feraligatr. Its fun. Its DIFFERENT. I could prob have tried with Cyndaquil too (even if it would have been harder). Maybe Id have TWO of them instead. Two typhlosion run. You see what I mean?


If I want to make a dark-only game, as I often gravitate to, with as little mons as possible, I feel its needlessly constraining the player to force a level cap. Here lets do a middleground thing then: Lets say "past the (arbitrary level cap) of a current rank, divide EXP gains by 2 for the given 'mons. Besides you already gain less and less per level diff (or maybe its just based off enemy level/specie)... so... Yeah. My two cents on the matter. EDIT: The lore reason for level cap too was kinda funny. "They dont respect you enough (to level up past LV10)" XD I know of the option allowing for un-limiting stats ceiling, Ill stick to that for now I guess. :)


Side note, love the game. Made me laugh that we could ride the Walrus early game.

[SirConradTheIdiot]

I'm going to make the assumption that this post was made before progressing to the point of unlocking breeding.
Unlike Pokemon, breeding in this game is the bread and butter for the majority of the games mechanics. It's versatile enough that you can effectively give your monsters the best stats you can pass onto it (even higher with the stat cap disabled), pass down whichever moves you want onto it, and customize its appearance to your liking (and yes, that includes if you like its vanilla design, it's possible to keep that vanilla design).
While the level cap may seem restricting at first there's enough Chief Tamers down the line that the level cap is much higher than the levels of end game monsters, so you will probably not have to worry about not being able to overlevel with a single monster to make up for less party members.

[Succubus Nirriti]

Originally posted by SirConradTheIdiot:

I'm going to make the assumption that this post was made before progressing to the point of unlocking breeding.
Unlike Pokemon, breeding in this game is the bread and butter for the majority of the games mechanics. It's versatile enough that you can effectively give your monsters the best stats you can pass onto it (even higher with the stat cap disabled), pass down whichever moves you want onto it, and customize its appearance to your liking (and yes, that includes if you like its vanilla design, it's possible to keep that vanilla design).
While the level cap may seem restricting at first there's enough Chief Tamers down the line that the level cap is much higher than the levels of end game monsters, so you will probably not have to worry about not being able to overlevel with a single monster to make up for less party members.

Youre correct, didnt unlock it yet. Mostly was exploring and catching 'mons I liked. Even got lost a few times (which is great, so much to explore and enjoy, I like it) haha. Alright. I knew of the tamers & ranks, I thought it was there to keep you from overleveling and always feel weaker then "x coming boss." Yeah about breeding I forgot where I saw tha tbut its really cool how you can crossbreed and change looks according to your own tastes. Love that. :)

[SirConradTheIdiot]

As you progress through the game you'll be able to have a lot more freedom with how exactly you want the stats to pass down onto the monster. As someone who did quite a lot of experimentation with it in the Early Access, it was very easy to make very broken easy win monsters before all of the limitations that were included later. Even with the addition of the respect system and level cap it didn't stop the monsters I raised later from being able to do substantial damage to monsters on significantly higher levels than the ones I was using. A lot of the balance changes was mostly to fix that lack of difficulty, which later led to having the uncap stats option as a lot of people liked using the system to overpower their monsters.
I never exactly saw much complaint on the level cap. Granted I believe you can get the cap up pretty quickly so long as you challenge each Chief Tamer in each town/city. I would take a note to save if you don't like the concept of losing a monster when you lose, you can also lower the difficulty to easy to avoid that.

[Radiowavehero]

The breeding does take awhile to unlock fully, at first you can only mix and match stats but later on you can take the stats from one monster and the appearance of another so your favorite monsters can still be good even in the end game and this game has a massive after end game section to explore.

I wish there was a way to unlock all the breeding options as soon as breeding becomes available , maybe if you have beaten the game once it could let you have access to a facility on the farm to change the breeding settings or just carry over your previous breeding options.

As it stands certain monster will become less useful after awhile and stay mediocre until 2/3 of the way thru the game when you finally get access to the town that lets you change breeding options.