Omg @ chapter 10 boss! Only in a game this big does that work.

gamingeek said:

If I stick with Nagi as my number 4 go to guy will the game suddenly restrict access to him near the later story missions?

Honestly I don't know, I didn't really use him that much so far. I used Lao the most until I lost him then I used Hope, Gwin, and Irina after that.

Well I have my character, Lin, and Elma at level 60 now and I have 4 of the most expensive Skells you can buy. My Collectopedia is all 100%, my 3 skills are now level 5, all places have probes, and my overall survey rate of Mira is 59.21%. Still so much left to do.

It's in the Intel section.

I think you can only recruit the girl with Rock not Rock himself.

I think some of the mission board is fucked. I took on this 2 star bounty mission, went to Caldrous, found tyrant and he was level 65 compared to my 47. And this is a two star mission?! I'm increasingly coming across this disparity with missions now with lots of bounty animals too high to fight.

Also getting problems where I don't have enough affinity with some lameass like Phog to actually do the affinity missions. Also the skell destruction issue is getting annoying. You get randomly hounded by some massive outlevelled creature and either your skell or your team members skell gets destroyed. So you have to go all the way back to NLA, then barracks (two long loading screens) Then warp back for another loading sequence. It's easier to regularly save but since you cant load a save unless you quit to the title screen, it still takes ages.

Archangel3371 said:

Well you have to take size into account. I've destroyed creatures with my skells that were much higher then my character level.

Crap, running out of affinity missions to do because I don't have enough with certain characters to even start them. Just worked out the affinity chart.

Hmmm cant do story mission without beating two affinity missions. 1 mission I'm not close enough to Gwin to do, the other mission is nowhere to be found

Yes I am running into the affinity mission trap. I used one character as my fourth in an attempt to have a highly levelled partner. But you need to use multiple characters to build affinity or you cannot do certain missions. And now I cannot do the next story mission because it is a requirement that I have completed certain affinity missions - which I cannot start because I do not have the required affinity. So I'm stuck doing basic missions waiting for affinity to build between certain characters.

Also, if you ditch a couple of basic social missions like "Marry Me" or "backup request" you then cannot do the affinity mission in the residential district. Don't ditch basic missions, just be more careful about what ones you accept. Like Archie said, only accept Gathering missions that you already have all the items for. Don't accept Bounty missions that are more than 3 stars unless you are uber powerful.

Moral of the story?

Don't bother sticking to a single 4th character on your team, you can easily level up 4th characters in the Beasts lair which has level 40 Grexes. It is situated just north of NLA, in the adjacent segment. You must have at least 2 skells though.

man, I'm still a chapter and a half off from even getting my first skell  

Still, the Crystal Orthodoxy needs me to save the world once again, Mira will have to wait.