Feature: Adding flag for giving starting Espers

[kielbasiago]

-stesp <MIN> <MAX>
--starting-espers <MIN> <MAX>

This flag will gives a player between MIN-MAX espers at the start of the seed

These are marked in the spoiler log similar to how we do lores: https://pastebin.com/S40YpYZ5

*Odin       58 MP                                           Bahamut    70 MP
    Life 3  x20                                                 Merton  x6
    Bolt    x4                                                  Cure 3  x20
    Imp     x20                                                 Bolt 3  x8
    Life    x6                                              SPEED +2
STAMINA +2                                                  Equipable: All
Equipable: All

* = Starting Esper

[kielbasiago]

the second half of this or doesn't seem to accomplish much

[AtmaTek]

I believe starting with max espers can fail with character gating. Character rewards are assigned first to ensure a path and try to make the checks (somewhat) equally likely. If characters are not randomly assigned to character/esper checks (e.g. magitek factory, FC, FT, doma wor, veldt, ...) then there will not be any remaining rewards available. I have not counted what the max number of espers can be without failing but I believe it is somewhere around 20.

To increase the chances of failure, assign 4 starting characters with character gating:
python3 wc.py -i ff3.smc -cg -sc1 random -sc2 random -sc3 random -sc4 random -stesp 27 27
Those flags almost always fail. However, I ran it 1000 times with 20 starting espers and did not encounter an error. I believe subtracting the number of character/esper only rewards from the max will be safe.

[kielbasiago]

Thanks Atma - This crossed my mind but never followed up on it - I'm counting 7 Char/Esper only rewards, so 20 makes sense. Will do some more testing as well

[asilverthorn]

Super minor, but this shows up in -h as Party starts with ('MIN', 'MAX')andom espers.

Change %(metavar) to %(metavar)s

[asilverthorn]

Updates merged into beta branch for &dev seeds.