Castle Paradox

[RelicMaker]

Can tags be turned on or off in conjunction with stats? For example, can I have a tag turn on when a character is in HP critical?
I want to give the heros a chance of performing special attacks when their HP is low, like Final Fantasy V's desperation attacks.

EDIT: I know theres a chain condition for HP being below a certain point, but what I want to do is have a spell that turns on that tag, like the Aura spell of final fantasy
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[Bob the Hamster]

Hmmm... there isn't an easy way to do this, but I do think it is possible

You could make the aura spell turn on the "Aura is Active" tag.

Then for the hero desperation tags you could have a multi-part chain.

The first part is the regular attack

it has an instead-chain that chains to a desperation attack if the attacker's HP is below 20%

The desperation attack has an instead-chain which chains to a copy of the regular attack if the aura tag is OFF

The duplicate copy of the regular attack has no instead-chain

This should work, but it sucks that you need 2 copies of each regular attack, especially if you have a whole bunch of attacks.

Also, this works nicely if Aura affects the whole party, but if you need to be able to have a separate aura for each hero, then this will get way more complicated.

[RelicMaker]

The thing is I want them to be able to access their desperation attacks WITHOUT the Aura spell as long as their HP is under 20%; Aura would remove that requirement.

In my game, each character has a set group of weapons to choose from, each of which has its own attack. Swords, Daggers, Hammers and Staves. Each attack has a 10% chance, if the character's HP is under 20%, to chain to an attack called Desperate (really just a caption to let the player know whats happening), which then chains to the actual attack.

What I have so far is:
<Fighter>
Attack
-if HP<20%, instead 10% chance to chain
desperate1
-100% chance chain
SonicBlade

<Cleric>
Attack
-if HP<20%, instead 10% chance to chain
desperate2
-100% chance chain
HammerTime

<Rogue>
Attack
-if HP<20%, instead 10% chance to chain
desperate3
-100% chance chain
Assassin

<Wizard>
Attack
-if HP<20%, instead 10% chance to chain
desperate4
-100% chance chain
Ultima

My goal is to have a spell that allows them to use that desperation attack without having <20% HP.
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[Bob the Hamster]

Hmmm... How do you feel about the desperation attack appearing as a separate menu item when the Aura effect is active?

EDIT: Wait, nevermind. I have not implemented tag conditionals for hero battle menu items yet.

[RelicMaker]

Seems like thats not something that can be done. Cept perhaps without oodles of plotscripting. Oh well, thoughts for the future perhaps.
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[TMC]

So what are we lacking? It seems like I've seen many questions about how to do something and the answer turned out to require creating a whole series of attacks with chaining conditions or duplicating attacks. It sounds like the ability to create more complicated chaining conditionals would be quite helpful. Namely multiple requirements for a chain (eg tag 3 on and tag 4 off), or multiple chains of the same type (chain to attack 3 instead if tag 3 on, chain to attack 3 instead if tag 4 on).
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[Bob the Hamster]

Multiple conditionals for each chain sounds like a great feature.

It probably would not even be all that hard to implement-- not in battle anyway. The hard part is the new data for the attack lumps. I have been putting off converting attack data into reload because I wanted to do it with the editor editor-- another project I have been putting off :)

[TMC]

It does seem pretty sensible to convert the attack editor to an editedit menu at the same time as switching attacks to RELOAD, otherwise it would require a complete rewrite twice.

I still haven't even played around with editedit yet, and I can't think of any lump which would be a high priority for converting to RELOAD and which has an editor that would greatly benefit from using editedit. (Eg textboxes are a high priority, but most of the data could happily continue to live inside the TextBox UDT, which is used in the editor, so no need to switch to editedit)
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