This is just something thought of and figured i would put up to see if others could find a use for.(i don't have any skills whatsoever to try to do anything like this) Anyway what i was thinking of would be, having some sort of special events occur on the world map like having monsters attack a town. I would think that the coding to do this is already around due to when you can see diamond weapon on the world map.
When a monster gets to a town pheraps things could change to a short cut scene showing a couple of monsters(use the in battle models maybe?) running around causing havok. Then things would revert back to wherever you are and you head over to the appropriate place and try to deal with them. Of course this idea will need to be tweaked around and discussed more, but its something to start with.
