Castle Paradox

[BlastedEarth]

If you've played the Fallout games there was a feature there that allowed you to get 'perks' every three levels. Can this be done in OHR? Like there will be a special level up script that brings up a text box every three level ups.

Like:
level one: free perk
level two
level three
level four
level 5: gain a perk
level 6
level 7
level 8
level 9: gain a perk
and so on

(only HP rises)

i think this is the way to control the character's advantage in the game. I'm thinking of limiting the characters stats to 10 just like fallout and they may gain additional stats through perks (e.g. Gain strength perk, gain endurance, etc., or maybe other perks like increased poison resistance, or elemental bonuses)

I'm thinking to include all this using a textbox, like a perk menu will appear when the textbox comes up. But how do you make the text box appear?

On stats:

I noticed cool stuff in the attacks editor, like sharp attacks, blunt attacks but can you make your own stuff like that? i think it'd be really neat if you can make your own attack formulas...
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[BlastedEarth]

Lol ok, that looks confusing...

Here's a cleaner question:
How can you make a textbox appear everytime you gain three levels?
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[Pumpkinbot]

[Bob the Hamster]

'How do I get it to run a script when I level up a certain hero (me)?'

This article shows how to make something happen when a hero levels up. If you want to to only happen on every third level, you could just check if the level number is evenly divisible by three.

documentation for set hero stat

Permanently raising a stat is easy. Just use "set hero stat" with "maximum stat" as the third argument. What TMC says two posts down.

[BlastedEarth]

@pumpkinbot: Yes, the textbox will load a perk menu where you choose a perk that will call another text box that will load the stat enhancement script, and will set a tag too that you've already acquired that perk.

@james: cool, thanks for this, can't wait to read them.
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[TMC]

To permanently change a stat outside of battle you'll want to increase both its maximum and its current value. Just repeat the 'set hero stat' command. Otherwise you won't see the change until after the next levelup.

Details: 'How do I increase the maximum of a stat?'
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[BlastedEarth]

(After seeing the links)
Wow i didn't realize this. So let's say that the human hero's current strength stat is 5 and the maximum for all human characters is 10. In every levelup, i can't keep the hero from getting a stat boost.

So if the hero starts out in the game with 5 STR then I must also set his maximum STR to 5 otherwise he'll gradually reach the stat cap of 10 even without choosing a perk. Now, everytime he gets a perk that increases his STR i must also modify his maximum stat so it applies after the script runs. Is this correct?
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[TMC]

I'm not sure what you're asking. But maybe you misunderstand what we mean by "maximum stat". That's not the value at level 99. Normally, the maximum values of all stats except for HP and MP are equal to their current values (which are displayed in the Status screen), but in battles you can temporarily change the current values with attacks.

[BlastedEarth]

[BlastedEarth]

[TMC]

[BlastedEarth]

Well, it looks like you got it working already, but I'd like to mention that instead of having a "Check Stats" option, you could display the current stats in a separate window (a second inactive menu) to the side.

I'll try if i can make this work, also: do you mean that i will not be using the default stats screen anymore? If i can learn how to use strings then i might be able to add new features like tag skills (barter, steal, stealth, lockpick, etc.)

I was really trying to simplify the game. Like instead of choosing a different class for each character, the starting 'traits' kind of determine your starting character. I'll send you what I have so far, it's really more organized than anything I've done before...

But that's a pity, the others looked quite promising!
Maybe in the future I can make them work if I have improved in plotscripting^^
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[TMC]