Attacks doing no damage?

[PaintingWitch]

I feel kinda dumb for asking, but, why aren't my attacks doing anything?

I customized the stats to be about average for a player at level one (not too low, not too high), but when I did, it made it so my physical attacks did absolutely no damage.

What could I be doing wrong?

 

[SmashArtist]

Did you edit the skills at all? If so, make sure you didn't change the first skill slot as that is the attack skill. If you did, just replace that slot with the attack and it should work.

 

[Shaz]

make sure you didn't change the first skill slot as that is the attack skill

Only in later engines. Attack is not a skill in XP.

@PaintingWitch could you please show a screenshot of the Equip screen when playing, as well as a screenshot of the Weapons and Enemies tabs in the database, with the equipped weapon and the appropriate enemy selected?

 

[Another Fen]

To clarify - if it helps - in RMXP your actors damage potential depends on their ATK value by default. If it is not more than half as high as the targets physical defense, your attacks will not do any damage.

The expected base damage (without elemental/critical/guard/variance modifiers) should then be:
(Attacker's ATK - 50% * Defender's PDEF) * (1 + 5% * Attacker's STR)