Castle Paradox

[msw188]

On the Soapbox page, people have been talking about MP usage problems. I think I explained mine there, but I'll repeat it here. For a spell list using the Random Effects setting, I have set the MP usage of all attacks within to the same amount, so that when a player chooses the random attack on the menu, he or she does not know what attack will appear but does know that it will always cost the same amount of MP. However, once the hero no longer has enough MP, the random attack STILL works, and just costs nothing. I once asked James if he could fix this, so that the random attack is not pickable, or it fails under these circumstances, but someone brought up the problem of backward compatability. So I'm asking, does anyone really count on a Random Effects spell list costing MP when the player has enough, and yet still working when they run out? If not, I think I'll ask James about it again (I can't remember what his answer was back then).
I've also run into a little trouble concerning the "weak against" and "strong against" bitsets. Put simply, they are too strong. Ideally I would wish that the amount that they alter a character's defense would be customizable, but I don't know how difficult that would be for the editor. Perhaps it would be possible to have new bitsets called "semi-strong against" and "semi-weak against", to dampen these effects by a set amount? I asked James about this once too, and he told me that choosing both strong and weak against results in one of these two (I can't remember which), but it looks kind of funny in the status screen to see that your hero is both strong and weak to Fire.
Please, post any thoughts on this here, and if people sound supportive I'll ask James about these ideas again.

PS: He has also promised an "ignore Hits multiplier stat" bitset for attacks sometime in the future. I always thought that this stat could be useful, but it makes some item use seem contradictory. This bitset would prevent that.

[Xerian]

James is very busy, so we should just be grateful for what we can get

I think the random attack MP problem has been around for a longgg time and I suppose you already know that. The only way to solve that problem is- the attacks don't cost MP at all unless you can figure out a genius way to fix that. Maybe you should put more than one of each attack for more common ones and only one entry for rare ones to even out the probability?

I always thought that sort of weakness thing would be useful. I think if he was able to implement certain strengths, like Fire strength... Water strength... etc. it would prove to be more various but... I don't know.
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[TMC]

Ha! Lucky for you, I once asked James about how strong and weak to elements and beast types affect damage done. This was well over a year ago, but I had saved that vaulable post, and found it in my old custom folder:

[Tylenol]

I would like to see a a visual script editor with the OHR, I dont know if it would be hard or not. I know hssed is a big help with the scripting problem people have, but a visual editor would be nice.
Also, I have a suggestion about what should come with the OHR, not the OHR itself. I think Paige should include the FAQ in html format with custom.
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