Castle Paradox

[Newbie_Power]

[Rya.Reisender]

Well you can see items outside AND inside of battles so the display is rather an advantage than a disadvantage.

The second is only a disadvantage if the game provides manual party-swapping. If party-swapping is needed, you could still realize it via plotscripting instead of the normal way to do it. But even easier is to make it possible to target all dead heroes, but make the skill fail on wrong ones.
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Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[Bob the Hamster]

[Newbie_Power]

[Bob the Hamster]

Okay, I am confused. I had incorrectly assumed that a separate life spell for each hero was the desired end result?

Reading back into the discussion a bit further... I see that the goal is a Saga-style LP system.

Not terribly hard to implement with outside-of-battle plotscripting, but extremely difficult if you want to be able to revive dead heros in the middle of a battle.

See also 'Plan for more flexible stats'

[Newbie_Power]

The problem is that stats changed in-battle aren't permanently changed outside of battle. If there was a bitset that allowed this for certain attacks, there wouldn't have to be so many hoops to jump through.
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[Moogle1]

Yes, but this is still a good idea:

[BlastedEarth]

Make the Active and Cleared Mission Handles,
Make the Mission Critical Text Boxes (Start and Clear Tag holders),
Make the Brief and Debrief Text Boxes,
Attach the text boxes and the tags: Brief:Tag Needed On:MissionStart=On,Tag Needed Off:MissionClear=Off
Debrief:Tag Needed On:MissionClear=On,
Make sure that for both the Brief and Debrief menu items are set to hide if disabled and close menu when selected.

I did this all only the quests don't lead to text boxes they just have captions that says like( Active menu: C wants some juice, Completed menu: You gave c a glass of juice). I think it's fixed when i did everything here plus setting both activation tags to the same tag requirement when only one is required. Thank you...

How about making the items themselves represent the LP?

Although it wouldn't show in the status screen, this way requires less tags and less scripting, plus it looks more convenient and seems more easily justifiable plot wise. Like a "miracle voucher". It is an item that prolongs a living entity's attachment to the material plane. When a hero gets slain in battle, he takes energy from the MV and thus continues being alive. Problem is the vouchers can only be recharged in some place so the player must take care of his heroes otherwise they'd have to travel to hell just to get them back. (As hell is a place in the game as well).(or maybe limbo, or heaven)(as one idea leads to another, it could be cool to have allignment isn't it? Choice one adds x evil points and choice two adds n light points.) Plus: it will also make the player get have a chance to test all the recruitables and treat them as none immortals....

[Rya.Reisender]

[BlastedEarth]

[Rya.Reisender]

Well you could always just double their HP and make it so they can only attack if it is above 50%.


Edit: By the way, I disagree with imitating the SaGaFrontier system 1:1 even though I love it. Better create your own individual system that is just similar to it. Well I personally like the dodge system and the item system most.
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Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[BlastedEarth]

Edit: By the way, I disagree with imitating the SaGaFrontier system 1:1 even though I love it. Better create your own individual system that is just similar to it. Well I personally like the dodge system and the item system most.[/quote]

You may be right, I'll see if i can do the item system, thanks....

edit:
I'm making the world map. I'm just wondering why the mini map is just blue while when i go to "resizemap" i can see a zoomed out version of my map. Can i work with that in tile edit mode?

[Bob the Hamster]

~ in tilemapping mode will give you a better minimap.

that blue rectangle is just intended to give you a visual indicator of which part of the map you are looking at (although, yes, it would be great if it showed a real minimap there)

There is no way to edit while looking at the minimap.

[BlastedEarth]

wow!this will do, thanks a lot....

Edit:

Whoa! What could be wrong?
1. made a tag,uh, lets call it, "dude"
2. went to textboxes and made a choice:
fight! (dude = on), jump! (dude = off)
3. set the textbox 148 to always lead to the next
4. textbox 149(instead: if dude = on, goto next textbox)
5. textbox 149: text "geronimo!" (always automatically use door 0)
6. textbox 150: text:"la put...." (always fight enemy formation 9)
7. thats it....

problem: why does the bg in 149 still has a choice even though when this appears you'd have clicked it already? and: why does the bg in 150 has textbox with the number "4" on it?



I hope you aren't irritated with my questions....

[AdrianX]

hello blastedearth,

..first of all, those are pretty awesome screenshots!

second, in the first page of this thread,you posted a screenshot wherein there's a dude called "takatak" whom the player can buy items from.

by any chance, do you live in the Philippines?

it's been a while since i posted anything in CP, but seeing another potential fellow Filipino OHR developer here would be great.