LUCKY 7 ABILITY [2K3]

So, I've recently decided to add a new ability to my game to make it more interesting and unique (or to at least fit in with the character's gimmick. She uses Gadgeteer/Tinker abilities from FFTA/FFTA2, which if you don't know, are abilities that have a 50% chance of working on either your entire party or the enemy party, and her secondary command is a Slot type ability, minus the Slots). This ability, as you can guess, is the Lucky 7 ability. Now, my question is, can I mimic what it does in FFIX? For those who don't know, this is what it does in FFIX:

If the last digit of Zidane's HP is 7, then the skill will either deal 7, 77, 777, or 7777 damage

Is it possible to mimic this precisely, or will I have to forgo the whole last digit HP thing and just have a 30/30/30/10 chance for the damage?

Alright, coolio. Got this ability set up (used something that I was told on another forum, setting current HP and then doing Modulus 10 and checking that way). That seems a lot easier to do too. @_@

I have no idea what you are talking about here at all lol. You lost me with the 10 states part @_@

Ah, I see. That's actually relatively clever, though would you have to call the variable and use the Modulus command each and every time you want to do it, or call the variable and Modulus command only once the entire time in a single event?

Well, thinking of the modulus command, I'm wondering if it's not possible to do something like this with say, Level ? Holy (yes, you made me think of another ability I wanted to put in the game). So that people know what I'm talking about, copy/pasted from the FFWiki:

"Level ? Holy, also known as L? Pearl, is a Lore learned by Strago Magus that deals Holy damage to all enemies whose level is a multiple of the last digit of the party's current gil. In other words, if the enemy was level 44, and the party's gil amount ended with the digit 2, it would work, but if it ended with 3, it would not. Also, if the final digit is 1 or 0 (although there is no logical way to divide by 0), it will hit all enemies, guaranteed"


Obviously, this won't be used on enemies since they don't have levels (unless you manually put in levels yourself since they were silly enough to not let you give enemies levels), but would it be possible to do at all?


In addition, speaking of Levels, there's also an ability called Dark Shock/Dischorder, which halves the target's level. If you do this in battle, would it reset to the right level after battle, or would you have to put the character's actual level in a separate variable and call it after battle to fix levels?




(There was another ability I wanted to ask about here as well, but I completely forgot about it while thinking about this one....confound it all...).

Well, I already know about how to do Level 5 Death for the party. I meant I'd have to give the enemies themselves levels via coding since Enterbrain or whoever didn't give a Level field for enemies. So if I made Level 5 Death an enemy skill usable by a Blue Mage to use on enemies, then I'd have to do it that way (granted, I'd only have to check to see the level of the enemies instead of doing modulus, unless I made abilities that increased/decreased levels...not that that would matter at all for enemies. I'm just curious if Level ? Holy is possible to do in 2k3 (or if modulus would be helpful with that bit like it is with other Level spells...though I have a feeling it'd require a bit more coding with this one. Probably the same type of coding for this ability used for both levels and money, then check one against another).


I see. I'd probably want to record the target's current level at the very start of the battle in the Turns Elapsed event instead (since if the skill would be used again in the same fight on the same character, it'd call the variable again which would more than likely override the recorded target's current level with the new level) and in the Battle Cleanup common event have it restore the levels to the correct values?


Another reason I asked about the level is that I had the idea of having an accessory that changes the character's level to a fixed level. For instance, once the character equipped the accessory, the game would prompt for the player to choose a number to decrease your level by (this was meant for sidequests that had a level cap...not sure how much this idea will be used though, or if at all), and then the character's level is at that level until the accessory is removed.

I actually didn't think of putting it in their name truth be told (considering how long some names get...). May actually do that.


I'm thinking it might be possible to do the If/Then work in a common event actually in the event that I change anything in it. It does seem like it'd be easier to do than I thought though.


Aye, that's the biggest issue I've had thus far is the lack of battle events (no patches so far for this, but never heard of Powermode). I've been trying to plan as best as I can (I put 28 battle events into one common event, and another battle event in the Turns Elapsed event, so saved about 29 battle events, dropping from around 75 to 40 something). Not enough pages though when there's so many ideas floating around that requires them ;_;