Suggestion Materia - De-Randomize or Add Skill

[Invalice_Vangaurd]

Alternatively, if the random chance was removed in favor of just needing to provide that many copies of the materia, that would seem fair as well. IE: Instead of a 25% chance to apply the materia, you just have to provide 4 of them.

I agree with most of what said, aside from the quoted portion. I also hate that luck is so heavily favored, but I do feel the system needs to have some element of chance, yet not as focused on chance as it currently is. Eliminating all chance merely by adding multiple copies of materia seems too simplistic to me, and eliminates all risk. Not to mention, would you need to provide materia that has exactly the same bonus on it?

There needs to be some way for players to increase there chances, instead of mindlessly just attempting to meld over and over again.

[Bingo]

I agree with most of what said, aside from the quoted portion. I also hate that luck is so heavily favored, but I do feel the system needs to have some element of chance, yet not as focused on chance as it currently is. Eliminating all chance merely by adding multiple copies of materia seems too simplistic to me, and eliminates all risk. Not to mention, would you need to provide materia that has exactly the same bonus on it?

There needs to be some way for players to increase there chances, instead of mindlessly just attempting to meld over and over again.

I agree. The risk makes it more fun. I'm just trying to suggest multiple solutions.

Honestly, a cap on how unlucky you can get could go a long ways. Say if the probability is 2%, and you haven't succeeded on the last 49 tries, the 50th try automatically succeeds. When dealing with a coin flip, an unlucky person will still win within 10 tries or so. When dealing with 2%, and unlucky person could hopelessly spend a thousand.