The "RUBBER BAND TRICK" (comments invited)

[GreywolfHunting]

SO - you got into the Stillshrine of Miriam (or someplace like it) and used all of your magic on quickenings. Now you are stuck, because you can't reach a crystal and are out of ethers to restore your MP's...

OR ARE YOU?

The tutorial tells us that as long as the party is moving, the party members slowly begin to regenerate magic points (MP). It doesn't matter if it's in a straight line or in a circle, does it?

METHOD ONE: Run the party in a circle until they have enough MP to do something. There is usually enough room no matter where they are to do this. In the Stillshrine for example - if you run right past a certain bunch of Dragons (3 of them) and right past the door at the end and the two stone heads that guard it, you find yourself in a large room that is safe at that end (there's another stone head at the far end). There's plenty of room to run laps while points regenerate.

This lends whole new meaning to the saying "RUNNING UP SOME POINTS"...

BUT! If you have a rubber band (about newspaper size) you can loop it over the left joystick on your controller, and then over the right side of the control pad. If you adjust the tension of the rubber band just right it pulls the joystick more forward than to the right, RESULT?
The whole party runs in a medium to large circle ALL BY ITSELF!!!

*It works best if you pull the rubber band all the way over the controller first, so that it's around the cable. THEN pull it over the left stick, and on around the right of the control pad.

Now you can go make a few sandwiches, start a pizza, grab a cold beverage or two, make some calls, do some homework if you have any, or whatever. Check the party once in a while to see that they haven't gotten blocked by anything, or if they have all of their points regenerated yet. IT'S AUTOMATIC!

They will also fight by themselves if you have your gambits set up right - assuming they are in an area like the Phon Coast where lots of creatures tend to regenerate within range...

*It works really well if you set FOE: FLYING and thundara, blizzara, or bio. The flyers at Phon Coast are prime targets for this scam

Depending on how big a circle you can get them to run in they can even be set to level themselves up all by themselves. There's lots of possibilities here

Try this out, and see what you can find to do with it