Thread: From Scratch: 6.0 Progression Systems

Originally Posted by Kalise

Technically, there's actually in-game lore around the numbering system.

In the Great Gubal Library there's a book that details a group of mages running into an issue with previous naming conventions. As I recall, it was due to someone discovering a spell more potent than Curaga and they were trying to figure out how to name it. Before finally deciding that the most logical thing to do was to instead name spells with a base name depending on what form they take and then a number to designate its relative power.

Console FFs of the later generations also didn't use anymore the silly numbers, but changed the higher forms of skills/spells by changing the spelling of the skill/spell, and thats something, that can be done theoretically unendlessly. Example: Out if Thunder 1,2,3 became Thunder, Thundara, Thundaga and as tier 4 Thundaja
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Thundara_(ability) it are the old FF games mainly, which began with numbers, but so older the game series became, they changed with time the names, removed the numbers, changed just the spelling,
I don't understand, why those silly numbers needed to return here xD, when changed magic spell spelling is just so much more original and creative of the FF-Series for what the game is basically by now known for, as you see this kind of spell naming practically nowhere else in RPGs, they made it for themself unique.

Tier 1 = Cure
Tier 2 = Cura
Tier 3 = Curaga
Tier 4 = Curegas
and so on

based on how many upgraded skill/spell forms you want to have in the game, and in the end, this all looks and sounds alot more creative and FF-original and not as lazy, than Cure 1, Cure 2 ,Cure 3 Cure 4 and so on.
It isn't even so, as if the game is flooded by tons of skill tiers... the highest skill tiers we have so far end at tier 4, there exist in game no skills or spells currently that are of a higher tier, than 4, unless you want to count Flare for example as tier 5 for a fire spell for the Blackmage as example, that should come after, but its learned already before Fire 4 (Firaka how it is be basically backwards-localized from German to English, as here we have not these silly numbers, here we have exacly what I propose, that the spelling of the spell changes, so more powerful it is) (Fire > Fira > Firaga > Firaka/ Feuer > Feura > Feuga > Feuka)