Gaining EXP when monster escapes?

[kattywompus]

I am making a realistic style game where battles will be rare, and typically the enemies will flee when they have lost a certain amount of health. I want death to carry weight in this world, so the idea of my characters randomly killing wolves and bats seems counter to that. 


I am wondering if there is any way to do this while still giving them battle exp and items. I like the idea of having a post battle status screen after each fight, but on my tests, it seems like forcing the monster to escape is the same as just aborting the battle. 


I've tried a couple different things, but nothing seems to work. I can't find the answer anywhere. Am I missing something? Is there a way to do what I want, which is just to give players experience and items when an enemy flees? Or will I have to find another way?


Thanks for taking the time to look at my question! Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Andar]

The engine only awards EXP if a monster is killed, and you would theoretically need a plugin to change the engine.


However, there is an alternative if you're only using evented battles and no random battles: you can give the EXP in the event after the battle.


If you want to do that, you'll need to set the enemies in the database to 0 EXP and calculate the EXP for each battleprocessing command yourself.

 

[kattywompus]

The engine only awards EXP if a monster is killed, and you would theoretically need a plugin to change the engine.


However, there is an alternative if you're only using evented battles and no random battles: you can give the EXP in the event after the battle.


If you want to do that, you'll need to set the enemies in the database to 0 EXP and calculate the EXP for each battleprocessing command yourself.

Thanks for responding! I am using evented battles only, so that's certainly a consideration. My main concern is a lack of visual feedback for the players, but it's something to think about. Maybe I'll put that in place while working on a plugin.

 

[Dalamar]

Just set the exp amount to a variable, then in a show text command put "the party gained \V[n]".  n=the number of the variable.