Castle Paradox

[Slime]

Hey, guys. I have a bit of a problem. I want to make an enemy be very rare to enounter, but if you do, and you beat it, you gain lots of exp. points.

However, i wanted to make the enemy have 50% chance of fleeing. So to do this, I give it 2 attacks, one, the offensive attack, and two, the fleeing.


Now, I need someone to tell me if there's a way to make an enemy flee. I also want to make it so if it flees, you gain no exp.points. Can anyone help? I know how to make the enemy be rare and all that, so I only need help on this Thanks, guys.
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[Fenrir-Lunaris]

Essentially, you'd want a cactaur... Hmm.

Firstly, create an enemy that has but one attack that when it is performed, kills itself (a self inflicted spell sould work, although you could make it go out like a bomb and damage the party too). Make a second enemy worth lots of Exp, and give it like 0 hp or make it die without boss. In the monster spawning bitsets of the first enemy, spawn the second enemy when hit by a particular element. The attack mentioned earlier that kills itself should have NO element, so that it won't trigger the exp spawned hidden monster. That SHOULD do it, though I'm probably missing something.

[JSH357]

If you want a simpler workaround (Fen's suggestion is better, but this works) have two different enemy formations: one with an enemy that kills itself (with the run away bitset) and gives no EXP, and one with the actual enemy. Make the second formation appear rarely in the randombattle set.

This is assuming you're using random battles, of course.

[Bob the Hamster]

You know what we need? We need an attack bitset that says:
No rewards for targets killed
And if you kill a target using an attack that has that bitset, it ignores experience and gold. Then that can be used for "Run-Away" self-attacking, or for "banish" type instant-kill spells, and stuff like that.

http://hamsterrepublic.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82

[Slime]

Yeah, that would be a good idea. it's a shame that none of the programmers will ever read this topic so they can add it on the next update, eh James Paige?
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[Mike Caron]

Yeah. Hey, why don't we invite James to work on the OHR?
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[LeRoy_Leo]

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[Mike Caron]

Yay! I'll check in the patch.
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[Setu_Firestorm]

I suppose one thing you could do is set him to flee instead of die and have one of his attacks be a self-inflicting one that shows no damage.

...on that note, than even you wouldn't be able to kill him...

I give up.
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[LeRoy_Leo]

This Is Actually Very Simple, Guys. Make an enemy and name it "flee".

PS: They stole every good suggestion I had.
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[Blue Pixel]

wait, you could have the enemy with the two attacks and the suicide one would be an elimant then when they die on non elimantal hit it spawns a 0hp reword enemy then (this is optinal) have another enemy with a speed of999 and no hp use an attack thats just a caption that says "dont use spells or he'll flee!". that should work...
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