OOC:
Originally posted by RyuKishi
Lock WILL raise the level average, you see, the game stores an internal count of the level, and each character that joins will join at the level of the counted average, no matter if you gain no levels at all (that is why if you level up to level 30, then Sabin will join at that, but if you stay around level 10 then he will be aorund level 10). So, each character raises the average internally, which is why people who play LLGs avoid gaining any characters other than the necesary few (3 needed at least, if not 4 maybe)
Yes. Hence my agreement. I'd never really thought of how it would affect the party's level average to recover party members in different orders, but Lock's level is a lot higher and would raise that statistic. One day, if I have too much time on my hands, I'll find out the optimum order in which to recover characters in order to get the lowest possible party member levels.

EDIT : I WILL find you a person who has completed the phoenix cave at level 8, I know someone who has completed it at level 10...after all, the current record for the lowest level to beat the final boss at is 7.5 (thats the internal average I believe...after all Level 7.5 doesn't exist in game..)
Level 7.5 still confuses me, but woteva. Nah, I believe you, I guess, although that I heard from Kishi that the only game that people had truly beaten at super-low levels was actually FFV and that all the FFVI stories were rumours. But meh. Not like it matters that much to me.

This is horrendously off-topic. I'll stop now.
Peace
The Man