7th June 2007, 9:51 AM
Sorry Weltall but upon further research, gil has nothing to do with it. You can actually test this for yourself. Save and just enter a battle and load over and over again. Sometimes he'll leave and sometimes he won't. If it was gil, he'd ALWAYS leave after that one battle, or he ALWAYS wouldn't leave. I got the odds wrong though. It's 1/16. Money has nothing to do with it.
As for evidence, someone took a long time decoding all the in-game algorythms of the game, right down to discovering a way to predicting which Veldt battle you'll encounter next.
http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/index.htm
Go there and you will find out ridiculously in-depth information on how everything takes place in FF6.
Oh, and here's something interesting. Deathgaze's appearence is not entirely random. They can't do "random encounters" in the normal way when you are flying. Instead, it randomly places an "event" invisibly on the world map. Save, load, whatever, your encounter will now ONLY take place on that ONE square of the map while flying, until you reach it, and then it'll be randomly placed somewhere else. This explains why sometimes you can be flying FOREVER and never encounter it. If you are seeking it out, you can't just fly a cirlce along the same path. If you didn't encounter it on the first run, you never will. You have to explore the ENTIRE map.
As for evidence, someone took a long time decoding all the in-game algorythms of the game, right down to discovering a way to predicting which Veldt battle you'll encounter next.
http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/index.htm
Go there and you will find out ridiculously in-depth information on how everything takes place in FF6.
Oh, and here's something interesting. Deathgaze's appearence is not entirely random. They can't do "random encounters" in the normal way when you are flying. Instead, it randomly places an "event" invisibly on the world map. Save, load, whatever, your encounter will now ONLY take place on that ONE square of the map while flying, until you reach it, and then it'll be randomly placed somewhere else. This explains why sometimes you can be flying FOREVER and never encounter it. If you are seeking it out, you can't just fly a cirlce along the same path. If you didn't encounter it on the first run, you never will. You have to explore the ENTIRE map.
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