------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals: My Life as a King Tips and Tricks FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.40 First Complete Compilation 25.05.08 *Added 3 New Tips and fixed some grammatical & spelling errors. 05.25 *Added a New Tip regarding adventurer's stats. 06.11 *Added a New Tip regarding morale, and corrected Two Tips regarding Hiring Adventurers. 06.14 *Added a New Tip regarding daily tithes and morale; more tips to be added as soon as confirmed. 7.22 *Added several New Tips regarding townspeople morale. 7.27 Written by PeachSmoothie Do not use without giving credit. All tips and tricks listed in this FAQ were from my (PeachSmoothie) own experience playing the game unless otherwise noted. This FAQ can be found on the following sites: GameFAQs.com, Neoseeker.com, Gamesradar.com, Cheatplanet.com, Cheatcc.com, and Supercheats.com. If you find this FAQ anywhere else, it's been taken without my permission! D: Contact: If you want to contribute to this guide, feel free to contact me. I will not, however, answer questions that already have been asked and answered on other FAQs. Although, if I see the need in the future, I will add in a comprehensive FAQ for convience's sake. You may email at: verbalotus [at] hotmail [dot] com. Credits: Everyone on the FFCC: MLaaK GameFaqs boards who helped me figure things out, add in their own knowledge, and corrected some of my mistakes and misunderstandings. Anyone who has helped and submitted information has their name after the tip. --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Introduction .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a certain type of FAQ that aims at giving tips, pointers and tricks of how the game works. Since most FAQs answer the basic questions, this answers most everything else. All information here has been compiled from player experience. Since some things may vary from player to player, most things are theories backed by said experience from multiple players. If you find something that clearly contradicts your own experience, then I encourage you to share it with me via email: verbalotus [at] hotmail [dot] com. Don't worry, unlike other FAQs/Walkthroughs, this FAQ has no spoilers, only information that will help you play the game that you may not have known otherwise. --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Contents .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- Section One: Did You Know? - Some random information about that game that does not really fit into the other sections Section Two: The Town and Its People - Information about Morale and the townspeople (duh) Section Three: Building and Layout Tips - Breaking Down, Building Up - Where to Put What - How Many - Everything Else Section Four: Adventurers! - Hiring - Cutting Time from Their House to the Bulletin Board - Accepting Behests Regularly - Taking Too Much Time Getting Ready - Stats and Stat Boosting Medals - Party Time - Everything Else Now that's done, on with the FAQ! :D --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Section One: Did You Know? .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- - When adventurers do information search behests and they find gil in houses, they give that money to the King so it can be spent on the city and its people. They don't keep it for themselves. How admirable, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. - Some dungeons shape-shift, resetting the exploration rate to 0 everyday. Usually sending in a thief with both Inner Compass and Mapper (some say Pathfinder) abilities will get it to stop shape-shifting, sometimes it doesn't. Many people report problems like this with the second Black Mage Academy dungeon. Unfortunately, it's normal, and you can either keep trying day after day by sending in one thief, or a group of thieves until it stops. - There are a few high leveled boss monsters that roam about the map, and appear in dungeons randomly. One time Orth Bridge, a level 15 dungeon on Normal mode was visited by a level 100 boss called Brutal Wolf. - The easiest way to make money is to utilize the morale spheres. You can even make more money when your town has more people and you can post a holiday. You will get a morale boost, and run and talk to as many people as you can to fill up your spheres. The most I was able to get was an extra 1200 gil. - You do not have to play New Game+ on Hard/Very Hard mode. You can play it again in normal mode if you wish, but there are some dungeons that unlock buildings that are exclusive to Hard/Very Hard. - Your final game ranking can be B (lowest), A, S, SS, or SSS (highest). The ranking is the average of three different categories: First is how many dungeons cleared and how many days, Second is how much morale and other citizen happiness, and Third is adventurer levels and such. Each individual category gets a B - SSS ranking too. - If you watch the title screen go into "demo mode", the town that the camera surveys while the story dialogue is fading in and out is your town. *Submitted by Llamacopter. - Pressing the B button will change the camera to Leo's point of view, unless it's a narrow corridor, then it'll change it slightly to the right or left. At that point you can keep clicking until the camera is his full point of view. - Holding down the B button and moving the D pad will move the camera around. This applies to anywhere, not just the lookout tower. - You can push the - (minus) button to summon Chime instead of waving your remote. - If you dismantle a Bakery, Weapon, Armor or Item shop and rebuild it, it will have a different owner name of the shop. --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Section Two: The Town and Its People .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sir Hugh Yurg won't take off his helmet because of a battle scar. Even though it's hardly noticable he's very sensitive about it, and doesn't want anyone to see. - Some ladies in town think the Dark Lord was actually a very handsome male Selkie. :O - Later on in the game, after your town has become an Empire, you'll be able to acquire Citizen Behests, which after its completion, will give you a morale bonus of approximately 50%. To get these, you must wait for Mogmune to walk out from the castle around 11am - Noon and talk to him. He sings a song with a townsperson name in red, that is the person you must talk to. They will be standing outside of their house for that day. Speak to him/her and you will find out something is lost in the town. You will then be able to post the behest the next morning. *Tip help from Mario Cleanstuff - Sometimes when you're running by your townspeople, they will stop to bow to you. After they've finished, some of them will stand there ready to be spoken to. You will miss it if you keep running. - At times you'll see townspeople talking to each other and they will have the green talk bubble too. When they finish talking, their morale will go up, and then you can talk to them to get more morale. - Neighbors and townspeople often times visit each other, and you can actually look at their information to see who's a close friend and who's been distant. This neat detail can help you stalk a person whose family morale you want to improve. *Tip help from Tahngarthor. - Some people rarely come out of their house, but will venture out during a particular time of the day every few days. You might have to stalk them if you want to talk to them to raise their morale. - When you dismantle a house, its inhabitants stay in the castle until you build another house of the same plot size. Although very rare, sometimes they get glitched and they just stay in your castle and lose their relationships with neighbors and family. *Submitted by Fanatic03 - The only way to stay out later is to summon Chime and tell her "Raise Morale!" During this period, if you talk to your citizens, you will receive a message saying family relationships have improved. You will not stay out later by talking to citizens during periods without any morale boost, during holidays, or during "bonus morale" activated by defeating bosses. *Submitted by LlamaCopter. - Morale bonus gil depends on your level of development. First stage is 20 gil per sphere, second is 40, third is 60 and so on. At the last stage it's 120 gil per sphere. *Tip help from Mario Cleanstuff and Ice_Shield. - The amount of Tithes you can earn per a day can vary greatly depending on overall morale. The more time you spend "boosting" morale and maxing the happiness of houses, the more you'll earn in tithes in addition to the morale bonus. - Sometimes only one person will venture out of the house in a given family, raising this person's morale over and over will not max the family's happy meter, you must talk to at least two people of the same family. - You can only stay out after dusk when families have their happiness meters maxed, those houses will opt to turn on their porch light. Though, only Clavat houses have a porch light so you can see which families are happiest. - You can see which Clavat houses are happiest when they've installed a porch light and have planted flowers outside their door or near a window. Some will have ivy hanging down the side of their house. - Staying out later does have its advantages when it comes to raising families' morale and trying to make extra money on holidays. Some people only come out at night, and during a holiday you can talk to more people since you have more time. - Some townspeople rarely leave their house, therefore making it nearly impossible to boost their morale. One way to solve this is to move their house. Some people like being near a friend, a park, a bakery, or a certain area of the kingdom. - If a family doesn't leave their house, declare a holiday. These people will venture out at least once during this time. If you're aiming to raise morale, now is a good time to call Chime to do so. The happier the family is, the more likely they'll leave their house. You'll just have to forgo the morale frenzy for a few holidays. - When the morale frenzy is in effect, and you call Chime to raise morale, it will override the boost and talking to people will add morale at a normal rate instead of 2x. - The easiest way to earn morale in the beginning of the game when you don't have a lot of residents is to talk to your adventurers everyday when they leave to explore and when they've returned from exploration. When they've returned, you can only talk to them before they go to the castle to get their pay, you cannot talk to them after that until the next day. - You can only talk to adventurers before and after their mission ONLY if they've left town. If they're in town gathering information, you won't be able to talk to them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Section Three: Building and Layout Tips .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================== Part A - Breaking Down, Building Up ====================================== - After you've first built a house, go inside. Sometimes the family's happiness meter is already maxed, and they will give you a medal. - When more than one house is dismantled and then rebuilt, the family's house that was dismantled first wil be rebuilt first, and continues in that order. Helpful if you want to place your adventurers close together. - If you dismantle a small house and then build a large house, that family will move into the large house. - You can only dismantle 5 buildings in one day. - You can only build 10 buildings in one day. - In New Game+'s Hard or Very Hard mode, you can get Large Houses from the Orc Keep dungeon (appears after the Janktra Plains dungeon). Two Large houses will give more gil than one Spacious house, a great way to get more Tithes from your townspeople if you haven't reached your house limit. *Tip help from GameguruVIII. -Large Houses can only be obtained in Hard and Very Hard Mode. They do not stay unlocked, therefore can never be used in Normal difficulty. *Submitted by Final_Cataclysm. ============================ Part B: Where to Put What ============================ - A good layout will help decrease the time it takes for your adventurers to get ready before exploration. They do visit a lot of shops before leaving! - When placing buildings, it's good to remember which shops are universal for each race and make those easily reachable for everyone. Some can be tucked away further, like the mage schools since only mages would ever buy abilities there. - After the pay raise and adventurer number cap is maxed, the guild hall's only remaining benefit is keeping the cost of behests down. But most likely at that time, money shouldn't be a problem, and if you have more than one bulletin, it'll keep the cost down too. - Placing houses next to a building will influence the medals the family gives out (i.e. placing houses next to white magic schools will cause the families to give out mainly holy and restoration medals). *Submitted by Llamacopter. - It is assumed that placing adventurers' homes next to training schools will influence adventurers stats as they level more than their job's stat influence. Placing them by the Training Hall raises their Strength (and maybe Toughness); by the Gaming Hall raises their Dexterity and Agility; by the White Magic School raises Willpower, and by the Black Magic School raises Intelligence. *Submitted by Llamacopter, added help from PeachSmoothie and Ice_Shield. - Beginning stats of a Novice Adventurer can be influenced by certain buildings near their house. The bonus stats only applies to your future adventurer -- once hired then no more stat bonus no matter where adventurer lives. *Submitted by Goldhorizon. - Placing the Emporium near shops will not do anything like Mogiosh the Moogle says it would. It will just make item shops sell torches/survival items. Emporiums are for residential areas, and are meant to draw out townspeople from their homes to shop. It's kind of like a bakery, they get a double morale boost after they've gone shopping. *Tip help from LlamaCopter and starmilski13. - Placing Weapon and Armor shops further from most of the houses encourages them to be "experimental" to attract customers. These are the Weapon Name X and Armor Name X items you see during their big sales day. Often time they have a great stat bonus and minus. =================== Part C: How Many =================== - Shrines and Fountain parks work very similarly in that adventurers can use either to relax in the morning. Often time, if there's a fountain park near a shrine, they will opt to use the fountain instead. Although, adventurers will never wait at a shrine for a pep talk from the king like they would at a fountain, shrines can also temporarily boost a party leader's stat or refill max hp who is out exploring. A great tool for fighting bosses. But as long as you have a fountain park, adventurers will go there periodically and wait for a pep talk from the king. - If you're only planning on having 4 - 8 adventurers total, you most likely won't need three taverns. - More than likely, you won't need three bulletin parks in your town. - If you keep your adventurers' houses close together, you won't need more than one fountain. One fountain close to them would be enough. - Adding an Inn is not completely necessary. Since adventurers that appear at the Inn are a few levels higher than your highest guys, some people like the extra help. However, an Inn adds the Holy Abilities to the White Mage Temple and the Enfeebling Abilities to the Black Mage Academy. *Submitted by Fanatic03. - Some people don't keep the first weapon shop anymore because they prefer axes and hammers over swords. ========================== Part D: Everything Else ========================== - Bulletin and Fountain parks have 3 different landscaping. The first one you build will only be trees. Second one will only be flowers. Third will be trees and flowers. And it cycles those 3 in that order every time. Don't like just trees? Dismantle it and rebuild it and the second one with flowers will appear. - All three Shrines are different. The first shrine is Shrine of Power and boosts Strength and Toughness when you pray to it. Second shrine is Shrine of Knowledge and boosts Willpower and Intellect when you pray to it. Third shrine is Shrine of Life when replenishes HP to max. They will appear in that order when you build them, and you can only pray to them once a day. - In normal mode, luxurious houses (from DLC) are obtained from a level 40 dungeon, but on very hard mode the dungeon is level 100. That is not a typo. Get the luxurious houses before starting a new game+, or else you won't get them until after you've beaten everything else and can't enjoy them! *Submitted by Furio - When funding shops, make sure you don't over fund! When a shop has a special sales day, he'll have the maximum level of the item for sale with a suffix of X (great stat bonus and minus, usually around 19 - 29). Adventurers generally only equip and buy items no higher than 7 levels of theirs. So if you fund your shops all the way to level 60 items and your adventurers are only level 30, they won't be able to take advantage of the great sale and bonused items. --------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxx. Section Four: Adventurers! .xxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- ================== Part A: Hiring ================== - If you have the 3 extra races, their beginning stats total 37 points, while Clavats only get 35 points. That puts the Lilties, Yukes, and Selkies in a very slight advantage. But that's why they are specialized and cannot change jobs like Clavats can. - Be aware of when you hire your group of adventurers since they all have to start from level 1. If you don't mind them varying greatly in levels from one another, then it doesn't matter. However if you like them being around the same level, try to hire them in groups of 2 or 4. Lower leveled adventurers sometimes tell the king they want to be as powerful as their peers so they can battle together. And they sometimes use the training hall to catch up as fast as they can. - All the adventurers you've hired in your first play through will carry over, and you cannot fire them. These adventurers will show up on every New Game+ even if you don't hire them! So if you hired 5 Selkies the first time, then the second time only hired 2, on the third play through you will see the same 5 Selkies you originally hired! - In New Game+, your previous adventurers appear back in town in a random order, but generally appear in the first few houses you build so you won't have to keep building houses. *Tip help from LlamaCopter. - If you want a good group of adventurers in your New Game+, try to make sure each adventurer gets a few stat boosting medals, so this way they have an advantage in Hard/Very Hard mode. This is easier to accomplish with a smaller amount of adventurers, since you're limited to the amount of medals you can give out during one play through. =============================================================== Part B: Cutting Time from Their House to the Bulletin Board =============================================================== - You can commission all adventurers who are interested in the behest before they even leave their house. Just run to the board and select Choose an Adventurer to see the list of interested people, then you can select individually, or commission them all. Some will still stop by the board, while others won't and just start to shop without needing to be partied. - If you use the above method, and the party leader is tired, the party won't be available to take on the behest, and will do their own thing. If other party members are tired, they will just take the day off and go gamble or rest at home. Individuals not in a party will do the same if tired, so you won't have to wait for them at the bulletin, see their blue sad face and tell them to rest. *Tip help from FranckKnight and Ice_Shield. - Only the party leader actually visits the board and will go to the behest that interests him or her the most if there's more than one. ======================================= Part C: Accepting Behests Regularly ======================================= - The morale of your adventurers is VERY important! Talk to them before they leave and if you can, when they return. Talk to them when they're resting at home after a KO. Make sure you post some behests for lower level adventurers to complete too, since completing them boosts their morale. Place a fountain park or a shrin they can visit in the morning as close to their house as possible. If you do all this, they won't be sad or exhausted very often or at all, will only need to give them a pep talk at the fountain park once in a long while, and will not skip out on your behests! - Raise the pay rank to 4 as soon as possible! - Put a Shrine or fountain near their house so they can refresh in the morning. - Declare a National Holiday and give them the day off. - Try posting only one behest instead of two or three. ============================================== Part D: Taking Too Much Time Getting Ready ============================================== - Check out the Building/Layout Tips. - Sometimes an adventurer will stand outside a shop with the Green Talk bubble. Talk to them as fast as you can. They will stand there for about 10 seconds. When you have a tavern, everyone goes there to meet and one person running behind will hold up the whole party. Plus, they may stand outside of more than one shop, so that's a lot of time wasted! - If they come back early or before dusk often, they might need some torches. Torches help adventurers stay out later at dungeons instead of returning home early when it's dusk. The higher the torch level, the higher the dungeon they can explore at night. - Adventurers don't always go to every shop, sometimes they only stop by one or two. When funding research for higher level items, try not to fund too many different stores at one time, since that forces adventurers to check those shops the next day. - If adventurers take too much time to get ready, they'll tend to "Return Early" from a dungeon. They generally like to come back around dusk if they don't have torches, so make sure you plan your layout well and employ the aforementioned tips. I find my adventurers leave town around 1pm - 2pm and return around 4pm - 5pm while completing the behest. ========================================= Part E: Stats and Stat Boosting Medals ========================================= - In New Game+, you won't see your previous adventurer's added stats or bonuses until you have hired them. This means you'll only see their stats as a novice when you first build the house. After recruitment, the stats will reflect what they've gained through medals. - Max stats can surpass 100. And you can play one new game+ file over and over so your adventurer's medals carry over. That's crazy. *Tip help from Tahngarthor and White Tiger Shiro. - At first, the stat medals adventurers can receive will only be +1, but as the adventurers' levels grow, the medals can go up to who knows how high! Highest so far reported was +17 by Viewtiful_Jon. *Submitted by LlamaCopter, Ice_Shield, Furio, Aladrin and Viewtiful_Jon. - The Stat+ medals you get to use in New Game+ is actually the current medal bonus x2 (approximated). Meaning, if you'd get +5 from a Strength Medal, you can get +10 or +11 from a Strength+ Medal. *Submitted by Takk00. - This is uncertain, however, the Stat Bonus you get when beating a Dungeon is Floor(the Dungeon Level / 4). Basically a level 1-4 dungeon boss gives you +1, a level 5-8 gives you +2. Although I think it's more determined by the boss level, so a material quest's boss may provide significantly more boosts. (Floor means rounded down). Also the dungeon level in Very Hard mode seems to be Floor(2.5 * the Dungeon Level in normal). *Submitted by Takk00. - Sometimes you may see adventurers stats fluctuate and it's because of their equipment which give stat bonuses and minuses. - You can have a maximum of 9 of any medal type. If you can get another one from a home owner, they will tell you to come back later when you have more room. If that happens, you can still get a medal from another citizen, but you can only get one medal from one family at any given day. *Submitted by Final_Cataclysm. - You get + Medals from completing a game depending on your ranking at the end of the game. *Submitted by Final_Cataclysm. - Beginning stats of a Novice Adventurer can be influenced by certain buildings near their house. The bonus stats only applies to your future adventurer -- once hired then no more stat bonus no matter where adventurer lives. *Submitted by Goldhorizon. - A White Mage Temple influences the Willpower stat while lowering strength. A Black Mage Academy influences Intelligence while lowering toughness. A Gaming Hall influences Agility while lowering Willpower. *Submitted by Furio. - You can influence the beginning stats of every Novice (unhired) Adventurer, even Adventurers that carried over to your New Game+. This means you can at least influence 1 to 2 more stat points to your desired stats! *Tip help from Furio. ===================== Part F: Party Time ===================== - Partying helps you delegate or narrow down the possible canidates for medal rewards, since only the leader receives it. If you have a several lower level adventurers, have them be party leaders of higher level adventurers and defeat a boss. Even if the lower level dies, as long as the party beats the boss, the leader still gets the medal. - If the party leader is KO'ed or taking the day off to rest, the rest of the party will do their own thing and will not show up to any behest postings. - Party leaders will go to behests that interest them, regardless of other party members' levels. - Party leaders always get the medals from completing behests and boss fights, regardless if they're dead or alive at the end, or the one who actually did the killing. - Adventurers besides the party leader can get items from bosses, though the leader still gets the medal. One of mine just picked up a nice set of armor from a boss, and he was neither the leader nor the one to deal the final blow. *Submitted by Mario Cleanstuff. - Having your party slaughtered by a monster party several levels higher than the area you are exploring is rare, but completely normal. *Submitted by LlamaCopter. - If you use the shrines when your adventurers are out exploring, the effects will only apply to the party leaders. Adventurers who are soloing are considered as party leaders of their own one-person party. =========================== Part G: Everything Else =========================== - If you want your adventurers to gain levels, it's better to tell them to gain exp instead of sending them out on a behest to a dungeon of their level. You can even skip posting behests for that day and they will all go gain exp on their own by either going to a dungeon or the training hall. Contrary to what you may think, this way is faster than posting a behest to explore a dungeon to gain exp. - Visiting an adventurer who has died reduces the cool down time from two days to one. *Submitted by Mario Cleanstuff. - Male Yukes are exclusively black mages while female Yukes are exclusively white mages; they cannot switch classes. Selkies are all female thieves. Lilty adventurers are all male warriors. Clavats are the only race that has the capability to switch classes. *Submitted by Llamacopter. - Adventurers will go to gambling halls most often when they have a gambling medal. The adventurers visit the gambling hall right after getting paid for the day or they also go when they take the day off from adventuring. The gambling hall guy will say something like "Denis has been doing well today, I wish lady luck would smile on me like that" if anyone is in the building gambling, not shopping, when you talk to him. If you check adventurer reports at the end of the day and they went to gamble it will tell you how much money they won. *Submitted by Fanatic03 - Low level adventurers are more likely to use the training hall to level up, especially if they are more than 5 levels below your highest leveled adventurer. Adventurers will usually make two trips to the training hall if they plan to use it to train that day. One trip will be to shop for abilities, the second they will return for the actual training. When they are inside to train, not shop, Hugh will say their name and something like they are a great student. Unfortunately, there's no way I know of to make someone go there to gain exp. You can place a house near the training hall, and try to get the Training Medal from it. *Submitted by Fanatic03 - Adventurers generally won't equip weapons or armor if there is more than a +10 level difference. They can equip anything below their level. *Submitted by Mario Cleanstuff. - There's a 15 turn battle limit. If your party cannot defeat a boss within that amount, they flee. If you sent more than one person or party there, then they will most likely try to finish it off. - Abilities at the Training hall are not class/job specific, only weapon specific. Since White Mages and Warriors can equip Hammers, both jobs are able to use Hammer abilities in battle. White Mage can Shock Bomb! :D - Weapons can have different suffixes denoting the added bonus. It can vary from +, F, T, B, X etc. (That's all I can name right now since that's all I've noticed myself). A + is just a numerical stat bonus of one stat. F denotes Fire damage, T denotes Thunder damage, B denotes Blizzard damage and X denotes a large bonus of one stat and an equal minus of one or two stats (ie +22 strength, -11 agility and -11 dexterity). *Tip help from Mario Cleanstuff. - Armor can have suffixes too, but most common are the X and + ones that have the same bonus descriptions as weapons. I have yet to see the elemental suffix for Armor, and no one has reported any thus far. - Sometimes a dungeon description will tell you a certain material may be found there. Even if the shop keeper requests for a behest for it, you have to fully explore the dungeon for you to obtain the material. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------