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I have an idea for an equipment weight system where you can only equip so many items. Since I'm not using MP, I was planning on re-purposing the MP gauge as a Weight gauge. Basically, each actor will have a max weight and every time they equip something, their current weight goes up. The actor would not be able to equip any item which would cause their current weight to exceed their max weight.

I am trying to use Yanfly's Equip Core and Equip Requirements plugin to create this effect. Since the MP gauge is being used as weight, I need to make it so that equipping something increases the actor's current MP. With Equip Requirements, I can use a note tag which will run a conditional branch which checks if the MP granted by the item exceeds their max MP. The only problem I've run into is that there doesn't seem to be any way to have equipment change an actor's current MP. Yanfly's Equip Core only can only modify parameters (like max MP, not current MP), and as as far as I know current HP, MP, and TP are not considered parameters.

My first solution for this problem was to use WAY_OnEquipEval. This plugin lets you run code when something is equipped or unequipped. Unfortunately, it isn't compatible with Yanfly's Equip Core, so the note tags which increase/decrease MP won't work.

Then I tried using common events, though this would require a LOT of common events. But the bigger problem is that events cannot run in the menu due to a lack of an interpreter. I know Tsukihime had a menu scene interpreter for VXA, but it was never ported to MV (would require a ton of work, as I understand). Common events could still be used, but it would look and feel really clunky to the player because they would be kicked out of the menu every time they change an actor's equipment.

I've also trying looking for plugins that simply add a weight system to the game, but it seems that they only add a weight system to the inventory, not limitations on what actors can equip.

I feel like having equipment change an actor's current MP is such a simple thing that there must be a simple solution.