Urgent help with Modern Algebra's Quest Journal needed

[Kes]

Exactly!

That's what I did with A Tale of a Common Man. The main quest had no reward except the ending itself, and players seemed to like the ending very much, so I guess it worked.

 

[Trihan]

Iavra, your snippet won't quite work for a few reasons, mainly that by the time the original merge is called the party has been deleted. What you need to do is edit the party merge script directly, and put this somewhere before the line which calls delete_party:

party2.quests.list.each { |quest| 

      0.upto(quest.objectives.size) { |objid|

        if party2.quests.revealed?(quest.id) && party2.quests[quest.id].objective_status?revealed, objid)

          party1.quests[quest.id].reveal_objective(objid)

        end

      }

    }

 

This will reveal for party1 any objectives which were revealed for party2, with the exception of quests that party2 didn't have visibility of in the first place.

 

[Iavra]

That's why i extended Game_Party.merge and not Game_Parties.merge

 

[Kes]

Having just tried that snippet I can report that it does indeed add all the quests into one list.  So great!

What it doesn't do (yet) is record what progress (if any) was made in any of party 2's quests, everything shows up as incomplete.

What I could do is a series of conditional checks to see if the switches which record the completion of an individual quest is ON or not.  If it is, then a script call to re-complete the quest might do it. I shall have to experiment and see. I'm not sure how to get the data where only some of the objectives were completed, though.

 

[Trihan]

I thought reveal objective retained completion from before, but that doesn't make sense because it's party 2 that did the completion, not party 1. Hang on a sec.

Iavra: The thing is, Game_Party doesn't HAVE a merge method so that's even worse.

 

[cabfe]

There's a function already included to be used with a script call: objective_complete?

 

[Kes]

There's a function already included to be used with a script call: objective_complete?

I cannot know which individual objectives a player has completed.  What I can know is that a quest is completed  That is because I activate a switch for that quest telling me that.  I can, therefore, check those switches to see if they are ON or OFF.

 

[Trihan]

Change it to this.

party2.quests.list.each { |quest| 

      0.upto(quest.objectives.size) { |objid|

        if party2.quests.revealed?(quest.id) && party2.quests[quest.id].objective_status?revealed, objid)

          party1.quests[quest.id].reveal_objective(objid)

          if party2.quests[quest.id].objective_status?complete, objid)

            party1.quests[quest.id].complete_objective(objid)

          elsif party2.quests[quest.id].objective_status?failed, objid)

            party1.quests[quest.id].fail_objective(objid)

          end

        end

      }

    }

 

[cabfe]

I cannot know which individual objectives a player has completed.  What I can know is that a quest is completed  That is because I activate a switch for that quest telling me that.  I can, therefore, check those switches to see if they are ON or OFF.

It's exactly what it does:

objective_complete?(quest_id, objective_id_1, ... objective_id_n)

->          This is satisfied if all the listed objectives have been completed

You only enter what you need to be checked, regardless of the overall status of the quest.

Of course, if you need to check every objective separately that'll make a very long conditional branch, but still doable without switches.

Edit: Trihan's version using a script is easier than through traditional eventing in this case.

 

[Kes]

Awesome mode officially confirmed.  That new variant works perfectly.

You have no idea how pleased I am about that.  To have the whole thing running smoothly is such a weight off my mind.

Thank you very much indeed.

And thank you, too, Iavra and cabfe, for your contributions to the thinking on this.

 

[Andar]

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