Ziggy587 wrote:It's been so long since I've played it that I don't really remember much. I do remember sailing into some sort of air current or whatever, and that was right around the disc change.
I hadn't noticed an encounter rate problem when I was playing it. I just hope that the idea wasn't put into my head, and now when I play it again I'll think there's too many encounters.
It's not too bad in dungeons, but it feels horrible while flying. I'm guessing the encounter check not only ticks when you move the analog stick but when you change altitude, so it's easier to trigger encounters. The air current you're thinking off is the Black Rift, which is some weird hole in a hurricane and is essentially a dungeon you fly through.