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active: monsters keep attacking
wait: monster wait for thier turn to attack

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what do you guys set it as? first time i played i set it on wait,
but now that im better at the game i put it on active.

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Why do kamakazi pilots wear helmets?

I liked wait better, expecially in FF4 J2E. If my Hermes Shoes (haste user) are at the bottom of the item list, I'll get massacred before I get a chance to use it. Useful against bosses, especially.

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

I don't usually mess with that setting, just stick it on whatever it starts with.  Usually that turns out to be Wait.  In games like Chrono Trigger where it asks you your preference at the beginning, I choose Wait.  Sure, it seems cheap to make the enemy wait for you to go through your menu, but you don't get to pick instantly like they do.



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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

I used active because it created a sense of urgency, and made the battles more interesting.

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What would Zorro do?-Homer Simpson

"Wait, he says. Do I look like a waiter?!" --Kefka

well, i am a waiter. like jlo said, i don't want to be killed by the time I pick out a spell to use or find a person dead before i can use a curative potion.

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

I pretty much always choose active, so that gets my vote.

Wait.  Same reasoning as Neal: the computer doesn't have to press down until it gets to the spell it wants, so why should I have to waste my ATB time on it?

well, this is good thing about custom, I use wait because I take too long to choose spells (even change that in wait ;p)
and sometimes, I take forever to choose who to attack!

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I will be there...

I always played through on wait the first time, then on active the second time, just for more challenge.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

I tend to use active, not because I'm 7331 or anything, just cause I'm to lazy to change it.

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."

I like active more, because then you have to actually KNOW what you are doing and not spend ten minutes to decide to cast a spell

Personally i prefer to use the wait command because sometimes when you're right in the middle of the battle you might have to do somthing such as get some food, go to the bathroom, yell at your little brother for standing in your way...ya know stuff like that(and yeah i know there is the big bad PAUSE button, but it takes so much effort to move your tired thumbs to press it...) it also helps to have the game on wait just incase you're a die-hard fan that never stops playing and just happens to pass out right in the middle of a fight...

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First you live
And then you die
So **** the world
LETS GET HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Yours truly~

I generally go with active, just for more of a challenge.

But I'll admit, it gets pretty irritating sometimes.

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*END TRANSMISSION*

I would choice active but if I was new to the battle system I would pick wait.

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In the darkness looking for a way out, then I hear a call from my heart telling me to go forward. Then out of nowhere I see someone waiting for me and as I get closer I hear these words "I Love You"

I go with wait. It's really chuffin annoying if you're going along at a pretty good clip, and you're pickin' something out to give a death blow, and the bloody thing decides it wants to cast an instant-death spell on you.    I'm not bitter. I'll be ok.

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Why don't you go hang out with the village idiot so you have someone to look up to?

When I play a game the first time I always go with wait but after I beat the game the next time around I go active cause it is more challenging. So I have to go with active

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War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain

U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

Active - After a while you get use to it. And then it's more fun.

Active- Nothing like a real time battle.

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"I could've slapped you, But a bullet's more personal."- Congo Terrorist 1, From SOCOM

SOCOM: ':SE:'007
Clan: Silent Echo  
Tactics: Grenades, Run & Gun, Sniper
     
The turning of the tide in a battle begins when one retreating soldier makes the decision to head back into the fray.

I'm supprised to find that most prefer "Wait". I just got used to the active system from playing FFIV. I can remember putting it on pause, and suddenly seeing Leviathan waste my party. (Sort of makes you wonder what the point of pause was). Perhaps this was just a bug in my game, or in the Leviathan battle, but I got used to active real fast.
    I've never thought of any video game as being realistic, but who takes turns when fighting?

But equally, who only fights when a little bar fills up and then selects what they want to do from a menu?  To my mind, Wait is meant to offset the time you have to spend thinking/doing this, bearing in mind that the computer will be able to calculate and execute its own move momentarily.

I usually forget about the setting and it is left on wait, but activ migth be more interesting.

active is more fun

For ATB gauges that don't freeze, I choose Active, otherwise, use Wait.

wait for me. just trying to offset the "thinking time"

I always choose with Active (it does a body good)(lol, joke). In battle i usually think 3 (or 4, it all depends on party size) moves ahead. In random battles its usually just Fight, Fight, Fight (blitz-bum rush just because I can). In boss battles is the only time I use other moves like Magic or such. (exempt from this is ffta and .Hack).
I also like being fast paced, and I can time certain attacks. Also helps in some games to have Active if you have a blue-mage type in your party.

However, I slow down the Battle Time just so I can read how much exp i got, gp i got, who leveled up, what the enemy is saying/doing, etc.

And I like everything harder. Then I'm under the illusion that I'm getting better.

This post has been edited by strikerbolt on 22nd December 2005 08:19

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

Active. If I need a breather I hit the pause button...

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

I get easily distracted, so if I use Active and walk off to get something to eat or something, I come back with a dead party. ^^

So Wait works for me!

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

wait, cause it's easier and you will not get beat up by the enemy and you can think before you act

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They may be monsters, but they're sea monsters. What're they gonna do? Flop around on deck and suffocate at us threateningly?

I prefer active. It is more realistic and therefor more fun.

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What if he shot you first instead of your secretary?

I suppose I'd have to catch the bullet, wouldn't I

I prefer Wait. I usually know what command I'm going to use before I have to choose it. In Active mode, the fact that I can be attacked while selecting that command from a huge list adds an element of urgency to the gameplay that doesn't make sense, in my opinion. The nature of these RPGs is to have command menus because there are so many things you can do, and I don't think the logistics of navigating those menus should interfere with the gameplay.

It's a little different when you DON'T know what you want to do. In that case, maybe it is better that you are attacked.

This post has been edited by jfjksdl on 29th December 2005 03:12

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I know I've been Final Fantasy XII too long - just the other day I referred to a region with no cell service as a Jagd!