Castle Paradox

[TwinHamster]

So I'm trying to implement a system into my battles where all actions will affect the user's "Threat Level".
Attacking, buffing, and etc. will all increase it.

The amount of Threat that is increased is supposed to be proportional to the effect of the action.
Attacks all work perfectly; however, buffs are a totally different figure.

The "Previous Damage" only seems to be recorded when damage is actually inflicted.
As buffs increase stats, they don't seem to fall under the requirements to have their values recorded.

Does anybody have a workaround to this?

I've thought of adding in extra attacks to all buffs that would essentially deal the same magnitude of the buff as damage (It would have 'Show damage without inflicting' and 'Do not display damage'), but this seems like it'd be awfully tedious.

Thanks

[Moogle1]

You could have all actions chain to an attack that increases the Threat stat (the Aggro stat?). Enemies prefer to target the character with the highest Threat. Optionally, enemies can reduce heroes' Threat rating when they attack them, so that the same hero isn't always targeted.

This sounds cool.
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[TwinHamster]

[Bob the Hamster]

[TwinHamster]

Hooray, these work great. Thanks! :D

[Moogle1]

[Newbie_Power]

The threat level mechanic is an amazing idea. Ton of potential flexibility.
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[TwinHamster]

As equipment also affects 'Threat'; depending on the stats they give, it'd also be pretty easy to make weird stuff like...
Armor that gives horrid defense but a magnificent Threat Decrease.

So yeah, fun stuff in store.

[Bob the Hamster]

[The Drizzle]

I'm doing the exact same thing with a threat stat in my game. My battle system was inspired (obviously) by MMOs, mainly WoW. What's great about threat is that instead of the battle being focused on damage, that goal is reliant on effective threat management. It opens the door for such a greater variety of attacks.

Here's an idea you might want to use... I am using it in my game but feel free to use it too if you aren't already. I'm using the Extra Hits stat as a multiplier for any threat increases. Every other attack ignores extra hits.

I like it because it lets the user get stats and equipment that can have minor effects on their threat generation but enough to be an incentive to use them.

Everyone has a default multiplier as well. Tanks actually have lower threat multipliers so it's almost a necessity to equip them with higher multipliers. DPSers and healers have higher multipliers for the opposite reason.

What roles in the battle are you using? Are they traditional DPS, tank, healer roles? Do you have any hybrid classes or anything completely different?

Now if only I could figure out a way for each enemy to record threat for each hero. That'd be amazing.
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