[2K3] TERRAIN & TILE SUBSTITUTION

So today me and Biggamefreak came up with the idea that one of the characters for my game would have an overworld passive that as long as she's in the party, the party would never get backattacked or pincer attacked. This isn't much of an issue, since I could just run a Parallel Process or something upon entering an area or something. However, I also decided another character's overworld passive would be that she increases Initiative as long as she's in the party, so I also need to replicate the Terrain for this character as well (I technically only use one terrain on everything). Now, I can easily do this with Conditional Branches for each.


However, am I right to assume that this would work best by changing the tilesets upon entering areas (i.e. you're about to enter the dungeon, and after the teleport event would be the Conditional Branch to check the Terrain stuff)? Because I think if I set it to Parallel Process on the maps, it would interfere with my bridge events since those also change tilesets. Or would I need to duplicate tilesets in order to apply the new Terrain stuff to them??

Well, I already have the 3 copies of the terrain (since again, I only use one terrain anyways for every map). Though having to have multiples of tilesets...ugh. But I think this would make the characters have a bit more flavor...I think.

Yes, I am doing random battles. Though I don't know if I want to do it in the way that you are mentioning or not. It seems to be working out for me right now as it is oddly enough.

Ok, so here's what I got, coding wise. Gonna need help here since there's a few things going on:




Ok, in this coding, it has the "No Random Encounters until X steps has been taken" code (in this case, 10 steps before Random Encounters are turned back on). After that is the No Encounter Accessory, the Half Encounter armor (usable by 2 characters). Another Common Event runs when the No Encounter item is used (since I have to have that as a switch itself for the item).

Here's the thing now. Since there's this whole thing about the passive overworld abilities (the Initiative and No Back Attacks/Pincer Attacks, which I don't think would affect this?), there's now an idea of having one character with the passive ability of getting into more fights, and another who halves random encounters, just being in the party. Would it be easier to have it set up in this common event for them (though how to work it out if both are in the party at the same time?), or would it be easier to have Terrains determine it for them?


(As for how expansive my project is...it's pretty expansive. 5 years in, only 50% done, and probably only 10-20 hours of gameplay depending on how players play).

It's put into an Auto-Start event that cleans up battle stuff. It sets the variable back to 0, turns Random Encounters to 0, and memorizes the party's location. This will occur after any fight at that (random encounter or boss).

Basically, do I just update the common event up there with coding for if the characters is in the party, change random encounter, or do I want to use Terrain settings?

And again, how would this work if both the character with More Encounters and the character with Half Encounters are in the same party? >_<

Haven't tested it either, but it looks like this SHOULD work. It's set before the Encounter Rate change variables, and just changes the variables to the appropriate ones depending on the characters. So now the next question is...how to work this so that if they're in the party and you use something else that changes encounter rates (i.e. the Demon Charm which sets No Encounters or the Avoidance which gives Half Encounter)? Hmmmm....

Is it possible to multiply the encounter rate in here?? I thought that was only in Terrain settings o.o

I don't see any way of doing that so...I don't think it's possible via variables. x_x;

I've rarely had that happen with my current set-up (that, and I have this set as you see up there in the common events, thanks to LockeZ, to not have random encounters for X steps after a fight so that avoids having so many fights in a row like that).

I guess I COULD set a variable to be something, but I can't directly influence what the Encounter Rate is from that, since it only gives you the option to change it and that's that. Though I'm not going with the whole monster group via common events per say. Just changing the base encounter rates is all here.