Castle Paradox

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

1. Would it be possible to have a new choice for the hitting percentage of an attack (I'm talking about the category that currently includes 'good', 'fair', 'poor', 'never misses', etc.)? Having these percentages more customizable (especially the one for magic) would be nice, but even if not that, perhaps adding one more category would be nice. I'm thinking of a category that is just 50-50. That is, it hits around 50 % of the time. I think that this choice could be quite useful.

2. I've heard that some people are trying to make the menu fully customizable. I'm not sure entirely what they mean, but I'd like to ask that this would allow some magic spells to be used OUTSIDE OF BATTLE ONLY. These spells would trigger a script, or something. I'm thinking of things like warp spells.

3. Would it be possible to give heros their own global text strings for things like learning a new spell? Or better yet...

4. With string implementation, would it be possible to alter the global text strings with plotscripting?

Mike Caron · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 9:20 am Post subject:

1. That shouldn't be a problem. I'll see what's up.

2. This may be more difficult, depending on how the spell data is laid out. I'm not sure ATM, but again, I'll see what's up.

3. If you mean a customized string for each hero, I doubt that'll happen.

4. Maybe. I'll suggest it, and I don't see why not.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

1) The best thing I can come up with is a chained attack, one to show some fancy loading thingy, and make the chain-percentage what you want it, so that it can be;'good', 'fair', 'poor', 'never misses'.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

The only problem with the chaining thing is that this means if it is an area attack, it will either 'work' on all of them or 'miss' all of them.

Thanks for taking the time to check this out, guys. Let me (and everyone else) know if you find out anything decisive.

Mr B · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 382

I have a couple of requests.

1) In CUSTOM.EXE, I would really like it if the "Home" & "End" keys moved the selected-sprite-box to the top and bottom of the created sprites (much like they do in the palette selection screen).

2) Plotscript commands that set bitsets for the heroes. Something along the lines of "set attribute(hero:Randy,attribute:rescold,true)" This would allow nearly all of the hero attributes to be modified, and not just the stats.

3) A plotscript command that gives more control over name changing. Specifically, a command that sets one hero's name equal to that of another. Example: "rename hero(0,3)" which would set the name of the hero in slot 0 to be the same as the name of the hero in slot 3. This would be useful in custom ability engines and storytelling where a character changes abilities (such as in FFVI when characters get the "Magic" ability list). It would be much nicer than having a blank spell list for much of the game. This would be most useful in circumstances where the game designer has no control over the character's name.

4) The ability to modify the stats and attributes of items. I know that the item data is stored in the .RPG file and not the .SAV file, but if the changes could even be temporary (much as in-game palette changes last only the duration of that particular instance of GAME.EXE) it would be quite helpful.

That's all I can think of at the time. Thanks for the consideration.

Mike Caron · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

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*grin* I am a happy man.

Mike Caron · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

TMC · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Actually, there are multiple menus where scrolling doesn't work fully. I think Enemies is one of them - they have to actually highlight the enemy number before the left/right keys work, which I find really annoying. I'd have to explore all the menus and add to the bug report.

I'm just wondering about number 3... As far as I understand, that would not be (directly) possible with strings as they are. Commands to change hero, enemy, etc. names directly as well as indirectly?

Mike Caron · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

Actually, the specific command mentioned in #3 IS quite possible, but by the time anyone gets to use it, Hamster Speak will have strings. But, I could add it in anyway, and he could use a WIP build until then.
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TMC · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

I mean, I didn't think we had said there would be commands to set things like hero names, only that you could embed a string in the heroname and do it that way?

Mike Caron · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 7:47 am Post subject:

Yes, there was that, but let's say you have this scenario:

~ Get Joe, name
~ Insert game until Magic
~ Get Joe 2 (who's name is ${H0})
~ Delete Joe (don't want to take up room in party, since there's 39 other heros)
~ Ooopz! Joe 2's name is ""
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Mr B · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 382