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VX Ace is this a good program, But I did do the jump to MV. I like the plugins they are easier then managing scripts, I also am somewhat competent in JS so I am glad I am able to use my abilities in that area.

Thanks for the answers. It's helpful to get a catch up.

I'm still finishing my game in Ace, because MV is still a bit buggy and it'd cost me a fortune to have all the graphics redone.  If those things weren't true, I'd port it over.

Yes, IGMC

I'm still on the fence myself, so can relate.

I really wish I had time.

I'm thinking of doing humorously scathing review videos of them.

Go ahead, 20-second reviews for each, fit 10 into one video? XD

Or I pick which ones I want to do videos for. I don't have patience to do all of them.

Double blow + haste state?


Or maybe double blow + counter state?

Double Blow and Triple Blow with Elements. You can try adding fire and ice or something like that; You can also add "Bonus Skill" activated for the combo.

Luna, yeah, that's really the best idea I've seen, haste.


SoulPour, Triple Blow *is* the bonus skill, I'm just trying to figure out how to get there from Double Blow.

Nice to hear! I'm finally done with two of my systems as well

Then later I have an eastern continent, but with a country already taking inspiration from middle eastern countries, I have a kingdom (Alexandria) that is lacking any real inspiration.

The "strongest" character hitting his "strongest" attack would deal 111 to a tough opponent, 160 to an evenly matched opponent, and 4982 to the weakest enemy in the game.

your best bet would be to take a pokemon engine on an RPG maker and see how they did it, but I don't think they call a battle system to do the pokemon engine

No, I know the formula. It's just you don't see the numbers in the Pokemon games, so you might not realise how high they go for trivial encounters.

Sure, that's what I do. In example, 2x Potion yields Mega-Potion, 2x Hi-Potion yields Ultra-Potion. 2x Ether yields Mega-Ether, and 2x Hi-Ether yields Ultra-Ether.

Yeah, that's simple and understandable.


If I do this, then it will streamline my elemental spells, really reducing the number of them.

Malfire, Felfire and Helfire, for example? I'm not so sure about Felice, though.

Exactly. It's Malfrost, Felfrost, and Helfrost.

So do the spells in your game just ramp up in overall power? Like does Helfrost just make Malfrost completely worthless once you learn it?

Thinking of maybe using a prefix or suffix like 'mal'.

Why is it not possible to give it any name and state its effect in the description like normally?

Its effect would be in the description (if this applied, however it's a result of a mix skill) but there would still be too many names of skills needed.

The tagging problem is interesting too, I don't want to add an extra minute to every text box, after all.

I suppose in the end it also matters if it's for dialogue options (shouting, etc), or if it's just to highlight important plot locations/items (Wild Rose, etc). You could also also put locations/items in brackets, with different colors? Tons of choices.

@light487 Adding pauses reduces the flow of the text in my opinion. Perhaps you can italicize them. I like the idea of italicizing keywords.

I, too, like working with larger maps. But be very careful about lag. It's pretty easy to lose FPS in large maps that hold many parallel processed events.

Parallel Processes, large maps, lighting system, overlays, parallax, 1GB RAM. Oh this should be fun

I often hear the fear of lag being used as a reason against large maps, but at what size map / number of events are people getting lag at?

I place my head in the metaphorical medieval stocks of the forum. Get your throwing arms and various fruits and vegetables ready.

I was slowing down on Crystal & Steam before the end of my indiegogo campaign. Now the guilt of having other people invested pushes me forward. So... maybe your public shaming is the more economical alternative?

Maybe we can be stock-mates, as I can foresee this in my future as well now that I don't have much time atm for RM related goodness.