Key items

[KeroTani]

I have a map in my game. At different points in the game I have different events. I was wondering is there a better way than making 3 maps or making a ton of key items and linking them to the events? 

 

[Labyrinthine]

Care to elaborate a bit?

Edit: Are you using switches and self-switches normally in these cases? Not sure if I still understood the problem correctly though... I'm a bit tired atm.

 

[KeroTani]

Care to elaborate a bit?

Let's say your game starts on map 1. There are a number of auto run events. Later you come back to map 1 and other auto run events happen. Right now I have 3 maps and each one has a auto run event as I really don't want a key item for them. In other places I use key items because the party needs to go find a item. I'm trying to find out is there a 3rd way to do this so I don't have a ton of unneeded maps or a ton of key items in my game. 

 

[fish]

Still not 100% sure what you're trying to do, but are you saying, how to make different auto-events run when you return to the previous map without having to use a key item?

If you simply want a different auto-run event to run when the player returns to a previous map, you can simply setup a switch in the event. When the player leaves that map, or when some conditions are met, you flip that switch so that the next time the player returns to the map, the auto-run event will determine which version it should run based on the switch condition.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for.

 

[KeroTani]

I just had a huge brain fart, sorry please close.