hmm... I may do that, if we can just get a list of places, and whether or not it would be cool for all characters to be maxed out in these save files
No maxed characters. The more natural, the better. Preferably NO used sources either. Stats could be raised via a SGE later if the user needs it.
I think some ground rules would need to be set for these. Let me suggest some, most of which you may not like doing:
#1 - Saves at
every opportunity (excluding unnecessary back-tracking) with as few battles/kills as possible and as many field things done as possible between last save and current save
#1a - This includes all Save points in dungeons and first opportunity outside towns as soon as you can leave the town after town-related story event
#1b - Don't save after every side-quest, but before proceeding with the story, complete all available side quests
#1c - For save in North Cave, prefer to save immediately
before group splits-up and only have opened the Save Crystal chest (pick nothing else up)
#2 - Level up naturally. Don't go out of way to grind levels (SGEs can artificially inflate the characters later)
#2a - Don't use sources. Hoard them all
#2b - Materia can be leveled as much as you want
#2c - Have at least one save (per character) where each character has only their first limit break
#3 - Get the best outcomes for different events (Stopping North Coral Train and getting Warrior Bangle, Getting Huge Materia from Shinra #26, etc.) before saving
#3a - At least read all the Costa Del Sol posters as soon as they become available
#3b - When the point in the story is reached, there should be four saves each having a different date scene on one slot. JENOVA can modify love points so just save four times and modify the love points of each of them differently. Preferably having the second character being the one the date will be with (to tell easily in-game).
I'm sure there are other things I'd want in a collection of saves. This is probably pretty extreme for most people and likely too annoying for one person to do alone (unless they wanted to). Maybe a group effort could be put into this. One person plays to the end of Midgar, the next plays to the save on the boat after Junon, the next plays until the end of Disc 1, etc. Each save would have to be documented as to what has been accomplished and such.
I know there are only 10 slots on the PC version, so you'll have to keep a backup of slots once all 150 saves have been used and either re-number the slots in the correct order or put in numbered archives/directories.
) because I forgot to give Aerith the Cure=All before the fight. I could have revived him, but I lost the will to keep going at the time. I'll continue later.
). Picked up Potion & Steal (probably shouldn't have, but whatever). Got into one fight with a trio of Sahagins. Didn't buy anything, but I probably should have to at least make this next part do-able. Oh well, I'm headed back to Wall Market after the fight with Reno anyway and almost nothing changes.