Castle Paradox

Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

I'm not entirely sure this is the right forum but here it goes. I want to make
sort of a fake mp where when you do attacks it goes down and the attacks will fail if the stat equals zero. I know that sounds exactly like mp but I want to use this stat in addition to mp. So far what I have tried doing is having an attack that reduces the ctr stat and then chains to the attack I want but I can't figure out how to make it fail. Is there a way to make an attack chain only if a stat is a certain level?

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

I don't think it's possible. There's no battle scripting yet so you can't really set conditions...

You could make an attack that only works once, though by raising the enemy's stats after the attack..
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Inspiration · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:15 am Post subject:

You could try using the new ammunition system.

In which you can give an attack an item cost.
When you're out of an item, you don't get to use the attack.
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Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

The reason I want to use a stat is because I want it to be restored to default
after the battle. I guess I could do that with an after battle script. Would there be a way to display how many of those items you have left on the stat screen?

Inspiration · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:27 am Post subject:

Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

Now that I think about it, what I could do is have the after battle plotscript set the number of the items you have equal to the ctr stat, is there a way to not let them see how many you have in the item menu?

Inspiration · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

But they can still see the x7 and they could still throw it away, is there a way to "lock" the item? I would also need one of these for each hero wouldn't I?

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

Thanks, I think this should work.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

This will seem very strange to a player to see a mysterious "x7" in their item menu. I would suggest a pre-battle script that gives the hero the correct number of items before a battle, and having the after battle script erase them from the inventory.

This will all break down, however, if you allow the player more than one hero who can use the attack. You are in much worse territory at that point. There could be some trickery to get the effect that you want, but it will not be pretty at all, and will probably have some flaws of its own. If each character has their own unique attacks for their counter stat, however, this could work.

EDIT PS: I'm glad that the custom stat menu thread with Glim may be useful to others as well.
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Smeargle · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 25

yes but there is no pre-battle script, I will probably just end up calling something like "system" not very pretty but oh well,

the point of this is I want to be able to have each class have specific skills that they can use in battle separate from mp, it will only go up to like ten and it gets healed after every battle, unfortunately I am not sure what will happen when they have two of the same class.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject:

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Yes, I should have been moe clear. The "instead of battle" script is what you need to be using, in James' format.

If you would like the player to have more than one of the same hero, you could make multiple copies of the same hero I suppose. But you will need a separate item to be the 'alternate MP' for each possible hero. And your script will look somewhat messy. But now that I've thought about it a bit, I'm sure that this is quite doable (as long as the player doesn't have access to 50 or so of each hero throughout the game). If you would like assistance with the script, just ask. Basically, it will need to check the hero IDs currently in the party and then give the correct amount of the corresponding item. Then after battle it will have to get rid of all of the possible items representing the 'alternate MPs'.
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