How to make conditional status effects/ailments

[Arctorius]

Thanks for checking this thread!
Like the title says, Is there a way to add conditions to the status effects a character or enemy can acquire?

What I'm trying to make is, for example, you have a skill that applies "Poisoned", but if the target already has the "Poisoned" state it instead applies the "Badly Poisoned" state, and if the target has "Burned" state it instead applies the "Corroding" state.
It then removes "Poisoned" for both cases.

I think that answer is in scripting, but I have absolutely no idea how to do it.
Any advice helps and is appreciated.

 

[Tiamat-86]

this can be done as part of the damage formulas
if (b.isStateAffected(X)) b.addState(Y); formula
where X is the normal state and Y is the upgraded state
replace formula with your normal damage formula or 0 if that skill doent deal damage.

the only problem with this is that the upgraded state doesnt have an apply rate.
its either applied because the base state was there, or not applied because it wasnt poisond or just cant be effected by badly poisoned state.
it doesnt take into account any success or resist rates of the upgraded state aside from the full on state resist trait

 

[Arctorius]

this can be done as part of the damage formulas
if (b.isStateAffected(X)) b.addState(Y); formula
where X is the normal state and Y is the upgraded state
replace formula with your normal damage formula or 0 if that skill doent deal damage.

the only problem with this is that the upgraded state doesnt have an apply rate.
its either applied because the base state was there, or not applied because it wasnt poisond or just cant be effected by badly poisoned state.
it doesnt take into account any success or resist rates of the upgraded state aside from the full on state resist trait

Yeah, I tried it and is a bit finicky. I was thinking that another option was through battle events using YEP's base troop events plug-in and scripting all the adding and removal of states. I don't know anything about scripting though, so this is more of a hunch from my part.

 

[Andar]

yanfly isn't the only one who writes plugins...
try
https://himeworks.com/2016/01/placeholder-states/

 

[Aesica]

yanfly isn't the only one who writes plugins...
try
https://himeworks.com/2016/01/placeholder-states/

Utter nonsense! Everything must be Yanfly!

That said, I think this one might also be what you're looking for (same author, actually)

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/progressive-states.50970/

Edit: Nevermind, I'm super tired and should probably just go to bed as I misunderstood what the OP was after. Doh!