Castle Paradox

[chronoboy]

This is a real downer... I am attempting to make a Spell which is used out of battle set a TAG if used. However, it does not work, it only sets the TAG if used in battle. What's up with that?

Should I file a bug report or is it suppose to be like that?

On top of that, outside of battle is seems to damage you, when I set it to "No damage". This attribute works in battles, but out of battles it does not honor it.
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[TMC]

Out-of-battle attacks are basically an unfinished feature. They've been that way forever. The problem is that they use a simplified reimplementation of all the in-battle attack code which is meant to work slightly differently. However, anything missing should probably be considered a bug - feel free to post a bug on bugzilla about anything specific.

However, setting tags and the no damage bit should be easy to add.
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[chronoboy]

Just added Bug 861 and Bug 862.

Your probably curious why one would even want to create such an attack that does absolutely nothing, but set a measly tag on fire.

Being able to set a tag from your spell list out of battle makes it possible for one to create a spell like "Unlock Magic" to unlock a magic seal. Other things are also possible. I would also like it, if for example, you can make a specific spell only usable outside of battle.

Your now wondering, well if you have a spell like "Magic Unlock", it's useless, it can only unlock one seal from anywhere in the game(including inside a battle), why not just create a magic scroll for this...

If you seriously thought that, then you really don't know what can be done using plotscripting... One single tag can do a lot more than one thinks it can, it's how you use the tag, and not what it's attached to that makes it useful.

The basics of a tag is a binary, 1 or 0, on or off. Before plotscripting became as powerful, tags were your weapon to drive the story. There are still many RPG engines that use tags excessively, I think a little too much, to drive story lines. In my more recent creations, my games use as little tags as possible, and replaces it with the all so powerful global variables. You have many more global variables than you do tags. The only limitation people see is that it cannot directly control NPC appearances, textboxes, and inventory management. The only limitation is being stuck with this simple idea and not seeing outside the box.

The OHR engine is only as limited as the game developer see it.
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