Best way to make a non-combat party member?

[Thaewyn]

Hey all, this is my first post, so apologies if I say anything silly.

I'm working on building a game where the 'player' character is not a valid combat target, but I'd like to have them be able to still participate, using items and buff skills.

I did find this other thread with recommendations for how to 'mock' this behavior ( https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/inde...er-from-formation-battle.129367/#post-1133324 ), but that would remove them from combat entirely, so that's not quite what I'm looking for.

Can anyone recommend me a plugin that might be able to support this? I'm willing to code it myself as well, I just haven't started looking into how to do that yet, and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if I don't have to.

Thanks!

 

[TheGameBrewery]

Have you tried setting the actor or class's Target Rate (Sp-Parameter) to 0%? Try this and test if multi-target attacks still connect. From there the easiest solution would be to set their various evades extremely high.

 

[Andar]

"all enemies" attacks will ignore target rate, only skills that have to select a target randomly are reacting to target rate.

to reduce damage from all party attacks you'll have to include damage rates set to zero as well

 

[TheGameBrewery]

Couldn't you then set evasion rate to 100% and make sure the skills are not anything but Certain Hit?

 

[Thaewyn]

I suppose that would be one way of doing it. The more I look into it tho, the more likely it seems that I'll need to write my own plugin to get the kind of behavior that I want.

Ideally the 'support' character wouldn't even have displayed health bars or a battle sprite, they would just get a unique turn every round, and very limited menu options. Also, the player would game over if all other characters beside this one were KO'd