Castle Paradox

[Meatballsub]

Is it possible to create some sort of ability that generates MP regen during battle?

[JSH357]

As of now, the only ways I can think of to do it involve chaining an attack (but that will lock the caster) and using enemy spawning + elemental bitsets to create an "MP Regen" dummy enemy.

Sounds like a good feature to request, though.

Another option would be to combine HP with MP, but that requires a complete overhaul of your battle system.

[Moogle1]

I have a feature request open for a "create-your-own-status-effect" sort of thing. Vote for it!
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[Rya.Reisender]

Regen should just get it's own setting in the damage calculation rather than a bitset. Then you could freely set the target stat as well.
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[Raekuul]

You already can. Just not without bitset "Target MP instead of HP (Obsolete)".

James: That bitset is no longer obsolete.
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[The Drizzle]

I think the "Target MP instead of HP (Obsolete)" has always worked so that old games would be backwards compatible when using that bitset. I think it just says obsolete because you can target any stat now.
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[Meatballsub]

Sweet, thanks for the info. I will try it out.

[Rya.Reisender]

Obsolete doesn't mean that it doesn't work anymore. :p
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[Bob the Hamster]

The obsolete target MP bit cannot do anything special. It is just the old way of selecting "Target Stat = MP"


At some point in the future, the engine may autodetect any attacks that use that bitset, change their "Target Stat" and then remove the bitset, so we can recycle it.


Until '' . bug_title('629') . '' is implemented, there is no easy way to do MP regen. JSH's suggestion with the invisible untargetable spawned enemy is the only workaround I can think of.

[Raekuul]

Wait, we *can't* combine the target MP bitset with a Regen Register target stat?
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[JSH357]

I don't know why you'd think we could. Regen doesn't heal damage through an attack--you can't affect the way it works beyond how much damage it's curing and whether it's on or off.

[Inspiration]

[JSH357]

Ah, that's true too, but it's pretty engine-determined (based purely on the wait meter).