Title says it all. Since PR has a button to turn all random encounters off, do you think there's a way to beat the game with zero random encounters, only mandatory fights ? I would guess absolutely not but i've been proven wrong on that sort of thing before.
Would you include chest encounters as random or mandatory fights? Additionally, if you keep falling down in the ice cavern and being blocked by the encounter, would that not be mandatory in your eyes?
My current route has no random encounters, but I do take a couple chest battles and battles from engaging with enemy sprites on the map.
A true no extra encounters run would be difficult, but I wouldn’t say impossible without an exhaustive attempt at routing it by multiple runners.
I beat the game in a single try with only forced battles and 0.5 EXP. It could probably be done with 0 exp but you would be resetting for the rest of your life for perfect RNG
2 RDM, 1 BLM, 1 MNK. If anyone wants to check it out...it could be done better and faster.
Good to see your party, it's the same I thought about using. But yeah the rgn resets sound rough. @CaptoftheDorks basically hitting F3 "no random encounters" and going like this. I haven't tried it yet but I guess chest encounters aren't affected by it. I don't know about the ice cave from the top of my mind, haven't played in a while. Is it a forced encounter you can do on repeat ? If that's the case, extra rule.
The chest encounters don’t reset, but all of the encounters where you talk to the enemy sprites will reset every time you exit and reenter the room. My current boost route does this. I never turn on encounters. But exp and gil are boosted 4x.
