Magic Counting System

[Sorakun555]

I'm fairly new to RPG Maker and game design in general, so excuse me if I don't make 100% sense right away. Basically, what I'm looking for is a way for the game to keep track of how many times a character uses a particular element of magic and, depending on that number of times, have options available to them. For instance, they cast a fire spell --> fire counter +1 --> skills that cost 1 fire counter become available --> uses a cost 1 fire counter skill --> fire counter -1 --> skills that cost 1 fire counter skill become unavailable. I've been trying to maybe utilize the tp system to make it work kinda how I imagine, but to little success (even with a whole new tp managing system, Yanfly's specifically, the default code is determined to keep the tp regen at a stubborn minimum). If anyone could help, or hell if this system already exists somewhere and I just haven't found it yet, it would be much appreciated! 

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to RGSS3 Script Requests. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Rinobi]

You could have separate variables (one per element) count upward each time a skill used, then restrict skills which require a certain number of 'counters' using a Skill Restrictions script.

 

[Sorakun555]

With some (a lot) of experimenting and trying to wrap my head around everything, I actually got it to work with a slightly different method. Just by making Common Events and linking those events into the effects of each skill I could tell Fire to add 1 to the control variable 1. From there, the same event would determine if the control variable 1 had a value greater than or equal to 1 and if so, to learn Fire II. Make another Common Event for Fire II and tell it to subtract 1 from that control variable and then determine if that control variable had a value less than or equal to 0 and if so, to forget Fire II.

Admittedly, had I gone in a bit deeper before asking maybe I could have found this, and maybe this will cause confusion for players down the line if I don't find a way to at least keep a log of what counters are needed for what skill, but thank you for taking the time to offer a solution. It at least pointed me in the right direction and I did still find a useful Skill Restrictions script to put away for a future game.