I have another graphic designer helping Rheima. He's gonna make emosets for me as well as voice acting and videos! So he's pretty much covered what I was looking for heheh. Think he is also going to make animated battlers for Rheima as well so it all works out.
I was thinking of maybe letting the player pick which style they prefer to use for battles and have literally 2 seperate versions of every map, one for my custom battle style and one for XAS. That is, once I learn how to use events for XAS to go with. I don't know exactly how I could do that without replacing the battle style though so not sure how that could work out. Another game that has a battle system that kicks ass is YS Origin. I played that and the action system kicks ass, and since it's an indie style game we might actually be able to get the scripts they use.
(Elliot, love that signature pic heheh. Sword Art Online is one epic anime series! I loved every moment of it)