How can I efficiently check for completion of long term goals?

[celebrus]

When the player achieves certain goals, I add items to his inventory. What is the most efficient way to check completion of goals that could be completed at any time? Here are some examples:

Specified character reaches level 25

Specified character learns 10th spell

Equip a specified character with a specified armor type

Collect every item within a specified armor type

Encounter each type of monster (in conjunction with modernalg's bestiary script)

Should I have a common event checking these conditions 100% of the time? Seems bleck.

 

[Lustermx]

Well, I would use common events. I have them running all the time with no problem.

That's half the reason why they're here anyway...

 

[Shaz]

Just be careful you don't have too many running at the same time - the more you have, the more it'll affect performance.


Achievements are tough - I WAS going to add them to my current game, but I just don't have the time, and yes, they're going to be tough to implement. I had planned to actually modify the scripts so every time something was done that contributed to a goal, it'd call a special method of a new class to update the progress. But it means I'd have to put "fingers" all over the scripts, wherever anything changes that affects any of the goals. So very intrusive (maybe not if I kept it all as an additional script, but I prefer to have my scripts merged so I'm not aliasing all over the place).

 

[CWells]

Hmm, depending on how your characters are meant to move about, I would say, have a certain place they return to frequently. Set up an NPC or a type of event where the player can talk to said person, or sleep or something, and if conditions are met upon talking to person/sleeping, provide the rewards.

For my game, a sort of sandbox style rpg/fighter, I have characters sleep to move events along. After certain parts of the story, they can sleep. But I also set up an event on the map where, if certain conditions are met, they earn certain skills and are given permanent stat increases. As well as special skills as bonus.

I would think most games would have places that players must pass through every so often.

I have two events.

The first event is just setting my variables for the characters level. Second event checks to see if variable has been increased by that characters level:

So, if variable Gabriel is 10 then variable is 10. Then the event plays if that condition is met upon player choosing to sleep. Like that.

 

[Berylstone]

When the player achieves certain goals, I add items to his inventory. What is the most efficient way to check completion of goals that could be completed at any time? Here are some examples:

Specified character reaches level 25

Specified character learns 10th spell

Equip a specified character with a specified armor type

Collect every item within a specified armor type

Encounter each type of monster (in conjunction with modernalg's bestiary script)

Should I have a common event checking these conditions 100% of the time? Seems bleck.

Similar to what CWells said, if you don't want to use a common event for this I would just set up a hub specifically designated for the purpose and do your conditional checks there.

 

[celebrus]

Thanks for the replies. I have a strong preference to show the goals have been completed at the exact moment they're accomplished. Common events do work, so maybe I'm being to fussy.